The Bi-Lo Holdings Foundation is giving $75,000 to benefit seven local nonprofits throughout Chattanooga in collaboration with its BI-LO stores. This is in addition to the more than $499,000 and more than 3 million pounds of food BI-LO is working to reinvest in the community by the end of 2014 through the contributions of its customers, business partners, associates and company dollars.
“The Bi-Lo Holdings Foundation is thankful for the immense support and contributions of our business partners who enable us to provide these funds to local organizations who share our mission to alleviate hunger in our communities,” said Mary Kellmanson, foundation president and chief marketing officer of Bi-Lo Holdings. “We look forward to growing our relationships with these organizations throughout the coming year.”
Grants were awarded to charitable organizations with missions to address hunger alleviation and hunger-related health and education issues. The foundation reviewed applications from several hundred nonprofit groups and conducted in-depth reviews of their services and reach within each community.
Throughout the next several weeks, representatives from Bi-Lo Holdings Foundation and its BI-LO stores will be presenting checks to the organizations that have been chosen to receive this year’s grants.
The Bi-Lo Holdings Foundation grant recipient organizations in Chattanooga are: Tennessee Wesleyan College; Chattanooga Community Kitchen; Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland; Here I Am, Inc./The Care Mission; YMCA of Metropolitan Chattanooga; Chattanooga Room at the Inn; and Chambliss Center for Children
The Bi-Lo Holdings Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization that supports many of the charitable-giving efforts of Bi-Lo Holdings, parent company of BI-LO, Harveys and Winn-Dixie supermarkets.