At Shipt, we’ve always been passionate about building connections and helping invest in the local communities we serve. As a technology company that powers grocery delivery, we believe that our platform is uniquely positioned to help reduce barriers to food access in partnership with local communities. 

“Shipt is passionate about ending food insecurity and we’ve made it a key priority,” said Shipt VP of Economic Development and Social Impact, Khadijah Abdullah. “Every action – big or small – is one step closer to an America where no one is hungry.”

Everyone needs nutritious food to thrive, and yet, millions of families across the U.S. live in areas with low access to nutritious, fresh food. With these values at the forefront, we’ve led change in this space for years now and we’re proud of the steps we’ve taken to combat hunger. 

Here are some of the ways we’ve been involved: 

2019

• Shipt supports Emeril’s Culinary Garden and Teaching Kitchen program in 6 schools, helping to provide tools that integrate gardening and cooking education with core academic subjects and to create an interactive learning environment centered on food.

• Alongside the Community Food Bank and the Boys and Girls Club of Central Alabama, Shipt sponsors a Mobile Pantry, helping to expand food access to people across the region.

• Shipt supports Jones Valley Teaching Farm’s “Good School Food” food-based education and apprenticeship programs which help students in Birmingham City Schools realize their passions in the STEM, nature, or culinary fields through hands-on enrichment programs and development. 

2020

• Shipt donates $150,000 to Feeding America to support their COVID-19 relief fund which provides fresh food to families in need and expands Feeding America's food pantry and meal programs.

• Shipt donates over 20,000 Shipt memberships to first-line responders at hospitals around the U.S.

• Shipt team members volunteer at Jones Valley Teaching Farm in Birmingham, Alabama in addition to sponsoring their annual "Twilight Supper." 

2021

• Shipt delivers 4,200 meals and volunteers in partnership with Meals on Wheels to ensure home-bound seniors have access to fresh meals.

• Shipt donates $200K to Feeding America’s Backpack Program in our fourth year of partnership.

• Starting in the fall of 2021, Shipt participates in a pilot study with the University of Michigan to determine the impact of delivering healthy groceries to low-income pregnant women enrolled in WIC.

2022

• In partnership with the YWCA of Birmingham, Shipt provides 100 YWCA families a free three-month Shipt membership and a $100 Healthy Choice credit to purchase healthy groceries and home essentials. During this partnership, 75% of deliveries were made to families living in food deserts.

• Shipt Team members across the country volunteer nearly 700 hours at food-related organizations.

• Shipt launches our inaugural Community and Impact Grant program to support organizations such as "For Oak Cliff," a CSA in Dallas, TX, generating immediate support for local urban farmers and distribution to their community.

• Shipt supports 11 Summer Feeding Programs across the U.S. to ensure that children who receive meals during the school year are still getting the food they need during the summer months. 

2023

• Shipt helps to provide nearly 800,000 meals to people in need via direct services, grants, and partnerships with organizations such as Feeding America, the Auburn Health Institute, and Meals on Wheels.

• Shipt begins engaging in research into nutrition security research space alongside the University of Michigan to understand the impact of home delivery of healthy foods for people with type 2 diabetes who are food-insecure. 

• Motivated by the stat that 1 in 3 college students faces food insecurity nationally, Shipt donates $35,000 in credits to college campus food pantries as part of our student membership offering.

• In Shipt’s second annual Community Grants and Impact program, 11 organizations across the U.S received over $160k in grants for their work in the food security and resilience space, including organizations like FreshFarm, a farmers market in Washington DC helping to create a more resilient food future for their community.

2024

• Shipt accepts SNAP/EBT on the Shipt Marketplace for the discounted rate of $4.99/month, extending access to nearly 74% of the nation’s food deserts and helping provide another way for the 1 in 10 households that rely on SNAP benefits to order the things they need.

• Goodr, a mobile market in ATL begins its second year as a Shipt grantee, where in partnership we hosted a community give-back alongside the housing authority of one of Birmingham’s food-insecure communities. 

• In our hometown of Birmingham, Shipt continued our support of the Community Food Bank of Central Alabama by providing over 16.8 million meals in 2024 and committing a $250,000 investment over five years. 

• To deepen our investment in partners that are expanding food access, Shipt contributes $37,000 to Jones Valley Teaching Farm to support their mission of teaching sustainable farming practices.

• Shipt partners with Lemontree Foods, to allow our team members across the country to volunteer virtually, helping connect over 13,000 households to access $265,000 in free food resources across 950 ZIP codes across the country.

Taken together, these actions demonstrate our belief as a company in the power of people and communities coming together. Human connection is at the core of everything we do here at Shipt and we will continue to look for ways to improve the communities we are privileged to serve.