{"id":147213,"date":"2020-05-07T15:12:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T19:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=147213"},"modified":"2020-05-07T15:12:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T19:12:10","slug":"fiat-chrysler-moves-ahead-with-meals-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2020\/05\/fiat-chrysler-moves-ahead-with-meals-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiat Chrysler Moves Ahead with Meals for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fiat Chrysler has joined forces with No Kid Hungry to distribute 640,000 meals for families impacted by the pandemic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is partnering with No Kid Hungry to support schools, food banks and community groups across the country to serve 640,000 meals during the crisis created by the pandemic.<\/p>\n

In response to the coronavirus crisis, FCA announced a commitment to provide more than 1 million meals to ensure children who depend on school meals continue to have access to nutritious food and this new partnership is a step toward hitting that benchmark.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has never been a more important moment to help children and their families,” said Mark Stewart, chief operating officer of FCA \u2014 North America. \u201cFCA and the Chrysler brand are pleased to support No Kid Hungry in its mission to end childhood hunger.\u201d<\/p>\n

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(Fiat Chrysler posts $1.84 billion Q1 loss.)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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FCA is looking to serve 1 million meals to those in need during the pandemic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

FCA is moving closer to achieving this goal by partnering with\u00a0No Kid Hungry\u00a0to support its grantees\u00a0\u2012 the aforementioned schools, food banks and community groups \u2012\u00a0that are still serving meals during school closures due to the pandemic.\u00a0FCA\u2019s corporate partnership is incremental to the expanded partnership with No Kid Hungry that the Chrysler brand announced in mid-March<\/p>\n

FCA has partnered with more than 40 local nonprofits to feed school children in its plant communities in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, as well as Canada and Mexico<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are incredibly grateful to FCA and to the Chrysler brand for stepping up even more so for America\u2019s kids,\u201d said Tom Nelson, president and CEO at Share Our Strength, the organization behind the No Kid Hungry campaign. \u201cThis incremental support will help us feed more vulnerable kids who are currently missing the school meals they rely on.\u201d<\/p>\n

(FCA cuts pay of senior executives, salaried employees.)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Chrysler brand has worked with No Kid Hungry since 2018 toward the organization\u2019s goal to end childhood hunger in America. In March, the Chrysler brand expanded that partnership. With the sale of every\u00a0Chrysler Pacifica\u00a0from March 18 through the end of June, Chrysler is making a contribution that will help No Kid Hungry provide meals to kids in need across the country.<\/p>\n

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Chrysler brand and No Kid Hungry have been partners since 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cChrysler first partnered with No Kid Hungry in 2018 to help in their goal of ending childhood hunger,\u201d said Tim Kuniskis, Global head of Alfa Romeo and head of Passenger Cars \u2013 Dodge, SRT, Chrysler and Fiat, FCA \u2013 North America.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a brand that is focused on making life easier for families, we at Chrysler want to continue to help those in need and make it easier for families to help others. So with each Pacifica sold, we\u2019ll help No Kid Hungry provide up to 500 meals to kids in need with the goal of providing up to 10 million meals.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Ford begins shipping respirators to health-care workers battling the pandemic.)<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The company tied that effort into the announcement of its Pacifica Family Pricing plus zero-percent financing for 60 months\u00a0is included on\u00a0every 2020 model year Chrysler Pacifica from the Pacifica Touring to the Pacifica Hybrid Limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is partnering with No Kid Hungry to support schools, food banks and community groups across the country to serve 640,000 meals during the crisis created by the pandemic. Get details at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20009,"featured_media":147218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5],"tags":[],"make":[51],"post-state":[],"category_old":[118,150,151,123,133,131,299,191,132,129,125,124,139,148,128,288],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147213"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=147213"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=147213"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=147213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}