For Immediate Release 

Contact: 
Von Lozon 
248-725-2400 
Von.Lozon@trinity-health.org 

DTE supplied philanthropy and volunteer hours to assist The Farms at Trinity Health Ann Arbor and Trinity Health Oakland fill Farm Share containers with nutritious meals for people and households going through meals insecurity this fall.   

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (November 16, 2022) – Members of DTE volunteered at The Farm at Trinity Health Ann Arbor on Tuesday, Nov. 15, to assist pack containers with 467 shares of meals – totaling 4,771 kilos of recent, native produce and a couple of,162 pantry objects.

DTE’s donated time follows their beneficiant philanthropic present of greater than $14,000 for The Farms at Trinity Health Ann Arbor and Trinity Health Oakland to supply Farm Shares for gratis to people and households experiencing meals insecurity. The packed containers had been double the scale of a median Farm Share and can assist make sure the households receiving them have a wholesome Thanksgiving meal.

“This generous support from DTE is putting local, nutritious food on the tables of people who need it most,” stated Amanda Sweetman, Trinity Health Michigan, Regional Director of Farming and Healthy Lifestyles. “We continually work to expand our food assistance through our Farm Share Program, and that would not be possible without partners like DTE. Thanks to this gift, we were able to call people on the waiting list for our Farm Share Assistance program to inform them they would be receiving weekly boxes of fall Farm Shares, including extra helpings for Thanksgiving.”

The Farms Share program is supplied thrice every year at The Farms at Trinity Health Ann Arbor and Oakland – through the spring, summer season and fall rising seasons. Participants signal as much as obtain a field of recent, native produce weekly or bi-weekly for 12 weeks. The price for a full Fall 2022 Farm Share was $300. Philanthropic assist makes it potential for the Farm Share Program to serve a twin function as one in every of The Farms’ meals help packages by offering the shares totally free to people and households going through vitamin insecurity.

In 2021, The Farms at Trinity Health Ann Arbor and Oakland served greater than 570 Farm Share members, offering them with 10,000 containers of nutritious, native, recent produce. This included 120 members going through meals insecurity who obtained shares totally free.

According to a Food Price Outlook report by the USDA, “In 2022, all food prices are predicted to increase between 9.5 and 10.5 percent.” The report went on to say, recent vegetable costs had reached a 9.2 p.c enhance between September 2021 and September 2022.

“The rising cost of food has been especially challenging for the communities surrounding The Farms at Trinity Health Ann Arbor and Oakland,” added Sweetman.

The Farms at Trinity Health Ann Arbor and Trinity Health Oakland work with 22 native farmers to mixture produce grown on website with all kinds of responsibly grown, native vegetables and fruit. Working collectively permits extra accessible Farm Shares, a wide range of produce and the power to assist sustainable agriculture by creating further income for the farmers.

“DTE is proud to support The Farms at Trinity Health Ann Arbor and Trinity Health Oakland to provide members of our communities with affordable, nutritious and dependable food,” stated Lynette Dowler, DTE Vice President of Public Affairs. “The Farms’ community-based programs tie together our commitment to human needs, the environment and community transformation to make an impact with customers across our service territory.”

DTE and the DTE Foundation are longtime supporters of Trinity Health and, collectively, have given greater than $600,000 to assist assist the well being and vibrancy of communities all through Southeast Michigan.

“We are grateful to DTE for giving through philanthropy and volunteer hours,” stated Alonzo Lewis, president, Trinity Health Ann Arbor and Trinity Health Livingston. “A lack of nutritious food is one of the leading social influencers of health and is detrimental to a person’s physical and emotional well-being. DTE is helping us to create health equity and to deliver on our healing mission.”

If you have an interest in supporting The Farms at Trinity Health Ann Arbor and Trinity Health Oakland and our meals help packages, please go to stjoesfarm.org/donate/ or contact Melissa Sheppard, Director of Corporate and Foundation Philanthropy at melissa.sheppard@trinity-health.org or 734-712-4079.

Trinity Health Michigan is a number one well being care supplier and one of many state’s largest employers. With greater than 24,000 full-time workers serving 29 counties, Trinity Health Michigan consists of 9 hospitals situated in Ann Arbor, Chelsea, Grand Haven, Grand Rapids, Howell, Livonia, Muskegon, Pontiac and Shelby. The well being system has 2,314 beds and 5,446 physicians and superior apply suppliers. With working revenues of $4.16 billion, Trinity Health Michigan returns $184 million again to their native communities every year. Together with quite a few ambulatory care places, residence well being and hospice businesses and 23 senior residing communities owned and/or operated by Trinity Health, Trinity Health Michigan supplies the complete continuum of take care of Michigan residents

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