Livonia, MI What do 10 thousand pounds of carrots look like? The marketing team at
Zeal Credit Union knows. On a recent Friday afternoon, this team worked as volunteers at Forgotten Harvest in Oak Park, Mich., to repackage large crates of fresh carrots into grocery bags.
Forgotten Harvest is a Detroit area non-profit that rescues surplus, prepared and perishable food that is distributed to emergency food providers to help feed the hungry.
"It was a fun team building project and made us feel good to do charitable work for such a worthy organization," said Lisa Fawcett, vice president of marketing for Zeal Credit Union. "We got a kick out of the fact that they had us packaging carrots, and we were all dressed in our Zeal orange logo wear for the occasion."
Fawcett added that Forgotten Harvest receives a variety of perishable food like carrots, potatoes and other items and counts on volunteers to help repackage them for distribution.
Founded in 1990 to fight hunger and waste, Forgotten Harvest services Wayne, Oakland and Macomb Counties, and is currently the nations largest food rescue organization.
Zeal Credit Union,
www.zealcreditunion.org, is a full-service, non-profit financial institution with nearly 60,000 members, assets exceeding $513 million and 11 full-service branch offices in metro Detroit. Members also have access to more than 5,000 shared branches and nearly 30,000 ATMs nationwide. Member deposits are insured to $250,000 by the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), a U.S. government agency.
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(Attached photo courtesy of Zeal Credit Union)
Photo Caption: Volunteering at Forgotten Harvest are Zeal Credit Union marketing team, from left to right, Kathy Hurt, Jennifer Shelton, Tiffany Sweet, Lisa Fawcett, Beverly Outland and Bryan Feldpausch.
