In late July, we were invited to join the Taco Bell Foundation and 20 of its amazing Live Más scholars at the Mount Airy Boys & Girls Club in St. Paul, MN for an afternoon of volunteering and a surprise $177,000 community grant check presentation.
I just want to give a huge shout out to the Border Foods team for all they do for Round Up. This wouldn’t be possible without you.
– Andrew German, Taco Bell Foundation
As an annual corporate partner of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities, we were honored to participate! Our communities are part of every single day we’re open – without strong communities, strong restaurants and teams are next to impossible.
“Some of these kids could be future leaders in our Taco Bell system,” says Max Corrigan, Border Foods’ Vice President of Analytics & Marketing.
Max, Sharla Hennek (Chief People Officer) and Ken Lund (Director of Operations) were among those who represented Border Foods’ office that day. The primary focus was helping second through sixth grade youth finish standardized testing in order to analyze their progress and identify gaps for future learning, according to Ken.
“When they were talking about it, they said this would take so much time because they have limited resources,” Ken shares of the club’s needs. “But having all of [us] come in and do it together, they can knock out in one day what it would take them a week or two to do.”
“I’m, you know, thinking about my three kids at home, how fortunate we are,” Max says of the experience. “I want to improve our community and give back in any way that [I] can.”
The group of volunteers also helped fill backpacks that day with back to school items designed to set local youth up for success.
Just giving back to the community, being able to help out in any small way that I can … brings warmth to my heart.
– Max Corrigan, VP, Analytics & Marketing
