Brighter Bite News Today

Nonprofit and Zespri extend partnership for 2023-2024 school year

Houston-based Brighter Bites continues to expand its partnership with the restaurant brand Sweetgreen.

Brighter Bites grows partnership with mission-driven restaurant brand

Brighter Bites is partnering with Sunkist to help improve the health of students and families in the Bakersfield, CA, area. Bakersfield serves as Brighter Bites’ third location in California, following Salinas (2021) and Los Angeles (2022). In early December Sunkist began providing monthly donations of citrus to the Brighter Bites Bakersfield locations, helping to provide families with weekly access to fresh produce at no cost.

As part of the West Pak Cares committee community involvement program, West Pak Avocado of Murrieta, CA, donated a load of 134,500 avocados to Brighter Bites, a Houston-based nonprofit that delivers fresh fruits and vegetables directly into families' hands. The organization has provided more than 50 million pounds of produce and hundreds of thousands of nutrition education materials to more than 500,000 individuals in Texas, California, Florida, New York and Washington, DC.

Brighter Bites, a nonprofit organization delivering fresh fruits and vegetables alongside nutrition education resources directly into families’ hands, hosted its first gala to celebrate its 10th birthday. As part of the celebration, the nonprofit exceeded it’s $500,000 campaign goal by raising $741,467 to support the company’s mission of helping under-resourced communities throughout the U.S. have access to fresh produce and nutrition education.

Brighter Bites, a Houston-based nonprofit providing under-resourced families with fresh produce and nutrition education, has partnered with D'Arrigo New York, a family-owned-and-operated fresh fruits and vegetables supplier serving the Northeast since 1948.

Nonprofit partners with kiwi grower-shipper for 2022-2023 school year

Brighter Bites is working with Zespri Kiwifruit as a key produce partner for the upcoming 2022-23 school year.  

IFPA chair previews Foodservice Conference