STRONGER COMMUNITIES

How we help here at home.

When you fill up at a GIANT or MARTIN’S store, you support local volunteer projects in our communities.

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VOLUNTEER PROJECT

COTTAGE HILL GARDEN

To prepare the Cottage Hill Garden for winter, GIANT employees volunteered with Keep York Beautiful to remove old compost and mulch and bring in new straw bale gardens for spring planting.

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Project 1 - Horn Farm Arena
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HORN FARM CENTER

In celebration of Arbor Day 2022, team members of GIANT planted over 200 trees at the Horn Farm Center in York, PA for Agricultural Education in partnership with Keep York Beautiful.

VOLUNTEER PROJECT

CENTRE COUNTY RECYCLING & REFUSE AUTHORITY

Team members of The GIANT Company celebrated Earth Day 2022 by volunteering at the Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority in Bellefonte, PA.

Project 2 - Recycling Center
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SAPLING GIVEAWAY

On Earth Day 2022, GIANT stores distributed over 19,000 saplings to customers in stores across Pennsylvania.

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HEART OF THE COMMUNITY GARDEN

To celebrate Earth Day 2022, GIANT team members planted trees and cleaned gardens at the Heart of the Community Garden in partnership with Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful.

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CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK

To support the immediate and long term wellbeing of communities during the COVID-19 pandemic, our program made a donation to the Central PA Food Bank to enable their facilities to become carbon neutral and provided 30,000 meals to local families.

VOLUNTEER PROJECT

PENN PARK

In partnership with Keep York County Beautiful, York City School District STEAM Academy, and York City Parks and Recreation, we organized a volunteer work day in Penn Park that included mulching, creation of a rain garden, and the planting of approximately 150 smaller native plants.

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Kings Gap Environmental Center

To support the immediate and long term wellbeing of communities during the COVID-19 pandemic, our program made a donation to the Central PA Food Bank to enable their facilities to reduce their carbon footprint and provided 30,000 meals to local families.

VOLUNTEER PROJECT

Heart of the Community Garden

In partnership with Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful and TriCounty Community Action, The GIANT team took part in a tree planting and community garden clean up event at the Heart of the Community Garden in Harrisburg, PA.

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Community Event

Earth Day Sapling Giveaway

The GIANT Company celebrated Earth Day 2021 by giving out tree saplings and Seventh Generation eco-friendly product samples to the first 100 customers at each store location.

VOLUNTEER PROJECT

Pennypack on the Delware

In celebration of Earth Day 2021, GIANT volunteers teamed up Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful to support park restoration efforts at Pennypack On The Delaware Park in Philadelphia, PA.

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Volunteer Project

E. Brandywine Community Park

To celebrate Earth Day 2021, GIANT team members planted 10 native trees including the Pennsylvania state tree, Eastern Hemlock in the East Brandywine Community Park.

VOLUNTEER PROJECT

Shenandoah River State Park

To celebrate Arbor Day 2021, GIANT partnered with Keep Virginia Beautiful hosted a tree planting event to plant 20 small tree saplings in the Shenandoah River State Park.

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WE’RE PLANTING 200,000 TREES

We have been working with our national partner, the Arbor Day Foundation, to plant trees in critical forests and nature preserves in the United States.

Where are we planting trees?

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Flight 93 National Park Memorial, PA
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South Quay Sandhills Natural Area Preserve, VA
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Sandhills Wildlife Management Area, GA
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Oakley & Powhatan Wildlife Management Areas, VA

Making a difference together. See the other ways we are giving back.