Vermont Business Magazine A $25,000 grant that the National Life Group Foundation awarded to the Vermont Foodbank will help to support the Backpack program. Under the program, students who might otherwise go hungry on weekends are given backpacks filled with nutritious food to help feed their families on days when they aren’t in school. “Kids can’t learn when they’re hungry, and that includes when they’re hungry on the weekend,” said Beth Rusnock, president of the National Life Foundation. “The Vermont Foodbank’s Backpack program is an effective and proven way to help keep a family fed when school lunches aren’t available.”
National Life has supported the Foodbank for many years and has directed its support specifically to the Backpack program in recent years. The Foundation’s annual grants has allowed the Foodbank to expand its service to additional schools.
Another way the company supports the Foodbank is as the presenting sponsor of the Harpoon Point to Point Presented by National Life Group, a series of bicycle rides every August that raise money for the Foodbank’s programs.
The National Life Group Foundation helps build healthy and vital communities by supporting organizations and initiatives that make a positive difference, primarily in northern Vermont and the Dallas region, where the company has major operations.
The Foundation also made a $15,000 grant to the North Texas Food Bank’s version of a backpack program.
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