BrightView Donates Truckloads of Food to AZ Food Bank
Food Drive Provides 1,500+ Meals to Arizona Residents in Need
Chances are you’ve seen our ubiquitous trucks around town; but it’s not every day you see them packed to the gills with donated food. Yet that curious sight is precisely what happened thanks to BrightView Landscape Services Phoenix "Stuff the Truck" Food Drive, resulting in an 1,810-pound haul of non-perishable food donations for Saint Mary’s Food Bank. The donations yielded more than 1,500 meals for Arizona residents in need and required 4 vehicles from the BrightView fleet for transport.
The large-scale effort included five BrightView branches in the greater Phoenix area—Phoenix West, Scottsdale, Phoenix East, Gilbert, and Mesa—working in partnership with 16 property management offices:
- Trestle Management Group (West Office)
- FirstService Residential
- AAM - Chandler
- AAM - Peoria
- Oasis Community Management
- Brown Community Management, Inc.
- Tri-City Property Management Services, Inc.
- Sentry Management, Inc.
- Golden Valley Property Management, LLC
- Colby Management Group, LLC
- Total Property Management, Inc.
- Ryan Companies US, Inc.
- De Rito Partners
- 360 Community Management Ltd.
- Plaza Companies (Peoria Office)
- Real Property Management East Valley
“BrightView is proud to join forces with our management company partners to benefit those in our community who may be struggling right now. We are so thankful to those who donated and the St. Mary’s food bank, who like BrightView, are committed to making lives better,” said Jon Hasbrouck, BrightView Landscape Services Vice President & General Manager, Arizona.
The drive was organized by BrightView Business Developer Anna DeToro. Donations were collected from November 1, 2021 to December 22, 2021 and provided to the food bank in time for the holidays.
Each year two million Arizonans are faced with food insecurity, including one in four children. In some areas of the state, more than 30% of the population is affected. Though located in Phoenix, St. Mary’s Food Bank distributes food throughout most of Arizona. Founded in 1967, it is one the largest food banks in the country. If you’d like to lend your support, visit www.firstfoodbank.org to learn more.
