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As part of efforts to help people who work in the hospitality industry and have been hurt by the COVID-19 crisis, Sysco Pittsburgh is giving those people and others who need it food at a drive-up distribution.

The 200,000 meals will go to Feeding America and other nonprofit organizations throughout the county.

Smithfield Foods has partnered with Mr. Beast as part of its Good Food Challenge to benefit Feeding America by donating a million servings of protein to food banks in North Carolina for COVID-19 relief.

As previously communicated to the company’s employees from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) CEO Mike Manley, the company is in the process of converting its first plant to produce face masks for donation to first responders and health care workers.

American Express is continuing its support of organizations combatting COVID-19 with the launch of a donation matching program to help feed local communities impacted in the U.S.

Feeding America, Convoy of Hope, Conscious Alliance and food and hunger-relief organizations in the company’s plant communities will be among those organizations receiving immediate funding and donations.

The company has announced its pledge of $1 million in cash and product donations for hunger relief and food insecurity as a result of this crisis.

As we all seek to better understand how companies can be a positive force during uncertain times, we’ve rounded up a few examples of companies stepping up to support coronavirus mitigation.

Freeport-McMoRan employees continued the tradition of giving back to the community by pledging more than $4 million in 2019, which raised a record-setting $11.1 million with the company match program for United Ways across the U.S.