Did you know more than half of our children in Michigan and Indiana rely on free and reduced-fee meals during the school year? When school is out for the summer, families struggle to make up these meals and many children go without the nourishment they need to enjoy a happy and healthy summer. Our family (more)
Did you know more than half of our children in Michigan and Indiana rely on free and reduced-fee meals during the school year? When school is out for the summer, families struggle to make up these meals and many children go without the nourishment they need to enjoy a happy and healthy summer. Our family of (more)
What a fruitful summer! We recently completed our fourth year of Michigan Partners Helping Michigan Youth initiative. If you visited a GT Pie shop this summer, you may have noticed that we were once again very busy baking up apple pies for a cause. From June 19th through September 10th, each apple pie sale benefited one (more)
Did you know more than half of our children in Michigan and Indiana rely on free and reduced-fee meals during the school year? When school is out for the summer, families struggle to make up these meals and many children go without the nourishment they need to enjoy a happy and healthy summer. Our family of (more)
Our Pie Shops were very busy baking up apple pies from June 20th through September 11th. Each apple pie sale this summer benefitted Gleaners Community Food Bank in Detroit and eight other pantries located in each of our shop communities as part of the Michigan Partners Helping Michigan Youth initiative. Our family of Pie Shops helped to stomp out (more)
We at GT Pie are busy baking up pies to benefit Gleaner’s Community Food Bank in Detroit as well as 8 other pantries in each of our GT Pie Shop communities. Our family of Pie Shops, including the new shop location in Rochester Hills, are helping to stomp out hunger throughout Michigan and Indiana for youth who participate (more)
What an amazing summer it has been! If you stopped in to a GT Pie shop this summer you may have heard about our Hunger Free Summer initiative. We were busy all summer long baking apple pies to benefit Gleaners Community Food Bank’s Hunger Free Summer Program as well as nine other pantries around the state. GT (more)
On June 10, we took a trip to Detroit to take part in the Gleaner’s Community Food Bank‘s kickoff event to a hunger free summer! Grand Traverse Pie Company and other local organizations have become match donors to help provide more than 2 million meals this summer to kids who may be on a reduced lunch plan (more)
Child hunger is a critical problem here in Michigan. Child poverty has grown to 25 percent and more than a third of Michigan children live in homes where no parent has full-time, year-round employment. Many of these children rely on school meals for their daily nutrition. However, when the school year ends, hunger sets in (more)