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Commitment
Foraged Feast provided more than
125,000pounds of food to food banks
andsimilar groups in2014.
As an avid gardener, Maisie Roberts
has always had an appreciation for
good food. Believing that everyone
should have access to aordable, fresh
produce, she co-founded Foraged
Feast, a nonprofit that works to make
such universal access areality.
Maisie, a Business Banking
relationship manager in Denver,
spends countless hours working
to feed those in need by collecting
locally grown food that would
otherwise go to waste and delivering
it to food service organizations in
hercommunity.
“Food banks have diculty
providing fresh produce to their
clients, and farmers often have excess
food after the farmers’ markets close,”
said Maisie. “By connecting food
banks and service organizations to
farmers, we can provide fresh food
that would otherwise go unused to
those who are hungry.”
WellsFargo’s Maisie Roberts | Denver,Colorado
Kayla Birdsong, head of food
distribution at GrowHaus, a nonprofit
food distributor, said, “Foraged Feast
has helped us feed an additional
50families each week.”
With the donations from local
farmers and farmers’ markets,
Maisie and volunteers at Foraged
Feast provided more than 125,000
pounds of food to organizations like
GrowHaus in2014.
Through WellsFargo’s Volunteer
Leave program, which provides
paid leave to team members who
are passionate about volunteering,
Maisie spent three months last
summer working full time to improve
the nonprofit’s food delivery options,
harvest fresh produce, and—
using her financial and business
expertise—help the nonprofit grow.
She also was awarded a $5,000
grant from WellsFargo to support
ForagedFeast’s eorts.
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