Making a difference

MKC employees take great pride in donating their time to communities and charitable organizations. MKC encourages their employes to help keep their communtiies strong by supporting organizations of their choosing.  Lane Allison, Seed Logistics Coordinator, is one more employee who volunteers to make a difference.

Lane is very involved within his community through several groups including Personal Energy Transportation (PET), a local nonprofit group in Moundridge. The organiztion manufactures and delivers all-terrain, self-powered wheel chairs to people in developing countries.  He has helped deliver 11 PET chairs to children and adults during two separate trips to Ethiopia.

"I would much rather donate my time and energy in a way that I can meet the people I am supporting and develop an actual relationship with them and know exactly to who or what my contribution is going toward.  These trips have allowed me to see the true happiness and joy from these people simply by receiving the gift of mobility.  I am extremely grateful to have witnessed that firsthand." - Lane Allison

Employees who make a difference

Many of MKC’s employees take great pride in donating their time to their communities and charitable organizations.

LeRoy (Lee) Goertzen has been driving MKC’s route truck for the past four years following his retirement from the commercial trucking industry.  To keep himself young and in shape, he walks daily.  Lee recently walked for a good cause by participating in the Christian Rural Overseas Program (CROP), raising over $1,200.  At 77 years of age, he was the oldest participant.

“It’s a good thing to help poor people,” stated Lee. “I wasn’t sure at first if I would be able to complete the six miles, but I felt good so I kept going.”

MKC sponsors food drive

MKC’s Community Involvement Committee will be kicking off a month-long food drive starting on June first. Donation drop off sites will be located at MKC co-op locations.

Non-perishable items collected during the month of June will be donated to local food pantries. Donations will be kept in the county they were donated in as much as possible, depending on the capacity of the food pantry and need.

Jason Creed, Director of Energy Operations and Community Involvement Committee member, said that the food drive is an excellent way to involve employees as well as customers and producers.

Bags to return donations in will be handed out to clients and producers as they travel to and from the co-op during harvest.

A competition has been established between the northern and southern districts to see who can collect the most food, with 500 pounds being the minimum goal for each district.

This is the second project of the recently formed Community Involvement Committee; the first was a month long blood drive that ran during May.  The Community Involvement Committee was formed after the MKC Way Committee conducted three employee focus groups and found that employees of MKC wanted to be more involved in their communities.

Making a difference

MKC employees take great pride in donating their time to communities. MKC encourages their employes to help keep their communtiies strong by supporting organizations of their choosing.  Matt McCune, Location Manager at Talmage, Kansas is one more employee who volunteers to make a difference in his community.

Matt is a volunteer firefighter for two rural fire departments in Dickinson County.  He is currently taking classes to further his training as a fire fighter and estimates that he will average 80 calls throughout the year.

"I volunteer for the fire department because my brother's life was saved by a local fire department. This is my opportunity to pay it forward to someone in need - possibly even on e of my customers some day." - Matt McCune

MKC to host blood drives

Every minute of every day, someone needs blood. That blood can only come from a volunteer donor, a person like you who makes the choice to donate. There is no substitute for your donation. When you make a blood donation, you join a very select group.

According to the American Red Cross, currently only 3 out of every 100 people in America donate blood.