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Volunteers Around the Globe Celebrate Cadence’s 30th Anniversary

on  June 27, 2019

To celebrate the company’s 30th anniversary, partner Cadence is giving its employees new, meaningful opportunities to give back to the community together with Rise Against Hunger. Kicking off its worldwide anniversary campaign in Munich, Germany, in April, Cadence teams around the globe have spent the past several months participating in Rise Against Hunger Experience events with a goal to package 300,000 meals for this campaign. Since then, nearly 1,000 Cadence employees have participated in events in 10 cities from San Jose, California, to Bangalore, India. In addition to participating in our meal packaging events, 226 Cadence employees have also donated more than $22,000 through an employee-matching gifts campaign benefiting Rise Against Hunger. The campaigns will continue until the end of July with Cadence employees in Shanghai, China, reaching this goal.Through their anniversary campaign, Cadence’s commitment to our mission will impact 1,615 lives in communities around the world, enabling them to rise and break the cycle of poverty. Additionally, contributions to the employee-matching gifts program will allow Rise Against Hunger to go beyond the meals and tackle ending hunger with a holistic approach by addressing the root causes of poverty. Donations from companies like Cadence have helped us establish sustainable development projects worldwide including agricultural training and microfinance programs for women, allow us to respond to emergencies, fund our monitoring and evaluation process and provide general organizational support.“Our Rise Against Hunger event was a huge success. We had over 80 participants, which included family members as young as four years old. We even accomplished our goal 15 minutes early! It was awesome to see everyone come together, to work toward a single goal, all while having fun at the same time. I’m so proud to be a member of the Cadence Austin Team!”- Jane Abadir, Austin Executive Administrator“We were thrilled to be introduced to Rise Against Hunger. We filled our 20,000+ bags right on time, and everyone around here had a big grin on their face.”- Larry Disenhof, Legal Group Director and Chelmsford Site Committee Member“This was an amazing Munich team event across all different groups and organizations. And we are very glad and honored to contribute to Cadence’s commitment to donate 300,000 meals to Rise Against Hunger.” ““ Joern Stohmann, Munich Site Leader and AE Group Director“There was an enthusiastic response from employees to volunteer and there was a really uplifting energy during the activity””lots of laughs, great teamwork across groups, friendly competition between stations, and cheering when we hit the milestones. The feedback from employees has been very positive.” ““ Madhavi Rao, Marketing Director and Bangalore Site LeadWe are grateful for partners like Cadence who have joined our movement to end world hunger by 2030. Without their generous support, we would not be able to continue to support people in critical need and impact lives worldwide.Are you interested in having your company join the movement to end hunger? Please visit our Engage Your Workplace page to learn more!

About the Author

Kimberly Bowman is the Marketing Associate on the Rise Against Hunger Marketing Team. She assists with corporate partner marketing campaigns, benefits support and overall marketing activities of the organization.

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Strength, Stability And Hope

The gift that filled Nelly’s table.

“We were yielding very little, and the crops could not sustain us the whole year,” Nelly remembers. As a mother of seven and a farmer with two decades of experience, the stress of inconsistent yields was all-consuming. A poor harvest not only strained her family financially, but also limited their own meals to just two a day. Their story reflects that of many in their fishing and farming village near a lake in the Karonga district of northern Malawi. Here, heavy rainfall makes conventional farming methods nearly impossible. The entire village is, quite literally, saturated in food insecurity — a reality that leaves families struggling to survive season after season without a dependable source of nourishment.

In 2019, Nelly began participating in Harvesting Prosperity and Resilience, a sustainable agriculture project implemented by Rise Against Hunger in partnership with the Foundation for Community Support Services (FOCUS). The project works with 3,100 smallholder farmers in Malawi’s Karonga and Mzimba districts to strengthen food and nutrition security by improving production methods, nutrition practices and household income.

Just one year later, Nelly was ready to expand the variety of crops on her farm. What land once only produced maize began to flourish with sesame, cowpeas, rice and groundnuts during the rainy season (summer), as well as maize and vegetables during the dry season (winter). Through climate-smart agriculture training, she learned new techniques like manure making, pit planting and mulching, crop rotation and intercropping. Equipped with these tools, Nelly’s farm began to thrive.

After the 2023–2024 growing season, she sold enough produce to purchase an ox cart. Her harvests in 2024-2025 season yielded over 500 pounds of crops, including 22 bags of groundnuts, seven bags of maize, 12 tins of sesame and three bags of rice. With this surplus, she was able to invest in a motorbike, which she now uses to transport African doughnuts (mandasi) that she cooks and sells — creating yet another source of income for her family.

The transformation reaches far beyond her finances. Nelly now has the stability to provide for her husband and children. “I am able to eat different food types, pay school fees for my children and fulfill the visions that I have made with my family,” she beams. “I am now sleeping peacefully without any fears of food or paying school fees for the children.”

Her leadership has also grown. Today, Nelly serves as a leader in the Harvesting Prosperity and Resilience project, teaching other farmers in her district to adopt climate-resilient, labor-saving practices. By sharing her knowledge, she is multiplying her impact — empowering her neighbors to experience the same transformation she has achieved.

Across Nelly’s community, food and economic security are on the rise. Lombani, a government extension officer for the region, explains, “I can see the community is being transformed in the sense that in the area, there is food, income and nutrition security. Development is also happening at the household level.”

Nelly reflects on what it means to invest in holistic programs that address the root causes of hunger: “We are now healthy people. Children are going to school after eating their breakfast, having high yields and different types of crops due to conservation agriculture practices. With the support from the project, we have food, and we can access other food items from the market after selling our produce.”

This is the gift that fills: a future full of stability, strength and hope. It fills tables with food, families with security and communities with the resources to thrive. It’s an investment in futures rooted in resilience and hope.