Pete Nebhut

                         Sherri  Austin, Tyson Manager of In-Kind Donations, with Miami Dolphin players

            Lift Up America, the Miami Dolphins and Tyson Foods, Inc. are making the holidays a little brighter for people in need in. Dolphins players helped unload a truck containing more than 35,000 pounds of protein products to be distributed to area hunger relief agencies at an event at Dolphin Stadium 
            “Our partnership and team spirit between these great organizations has a tremendous impact,” said Dave Hannah, CEO of Lift Up America. “It is truly inspirational to see so many entities coming together with such a noble goal in mind.”
            About 15 current and former Dolphins players helped distribute high-quality protein to approximately 30 hunger relief agencies served by The Daily Bread Food Bank in South Florida. In addition to the protein, the Huizenga Family Foundation is donating $25,000 which is being matched by Publix for a total of $50,000. The funds will be distributed among the agencies in the form of gift cards which the agencies can use at Publix stores to purchase additional food.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Dec. 7, 2007 – Hungry people in Kansas City will get some help from Lift Up America, the Kansas City Chiefs and Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE:TSN) thanks to a donation from Tyson Foods at an event on Dec. 11. Chiefs players will help unload a truck containing more than 30,000 pounds of protein products to be distributed to area hunger relief agencies at an event at Kansas Chiefs Stadium at One Arrowhead Drive.  The distribution event will follow a regularly scheduled briefing by Coach Herm Edwards.
            “Our partnership and team spirit between these great organizations has a tremendous impact,” said Dave Hannah, CEO of Lift Up America. “It is truly inspirational to see so many entities coming together with such a noble goal in mind.”
  “We’re honored to join forces with such caring organizations to help the people of the Kansas City area,” said John Tyson, chairman of Tyson Foods. “We hope our contribution inspires others to participate in the fight against hunger.”
 Kris Wilson, Jeff Webb, Jimmy Wilkerson, Dimitri Patterson and Tre Stallings will distribute the protein to approximately 30 hunger relief agencies.

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 27, 2007 – Hunger relief agencies in middle Tennessee will get an early Christmas gift, thanks to Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE:  TSN). A Tyson Foods truck carrying 37,520 pounds of protein products made a stop at the Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee in Nashville following an event in Shelbyville this morning. The event was attended by Tyson Foods representatives, food bank representatives and Team Members from Tyson’s Shelbyville facility, who made a cash contribution of $4213 to The Learning Tree Head Start program.   

“It is gratifying to know that the cash contribution and the product donation that our company is making today will go to help feed hungry people right here where our Team Members work and live,” said Wally Taylor, complex manager at the Shelbyville plant. Tyson locations nationwide last year launched a program called Powering the Spirit™, which involves three key components: local fund-raising through cooking and grilling events, sales of a specially produced Tyson cookbook featuring recipes from the kitchens of Tyson team members nationwide and donation of 75 percent of the proceeds of those fundraising efforts to the community where the money is raised.  Grants through the program are administered by national hunger relief organization Share Our Strength.  More than $150,000 was raised by Tyson Foods facilities nationwide.

 “It is important to us to be able to support hunger relief efforts in communities where we have operations,” said Bond.  “Since we’re a leader in the foods business it’s only natural for us to also be a leader in the fight against hunger in our nation. In fact, since the year 2000, our company has donated more than 49 million pounds of protein to help those in need.”

CARTHAGE, Miss., Nov. 14, 2007 – The Chief Executive Officer of Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE:  TSN) today announced that the donation of a truckload of protein was distributed among hunger relief agencies in Central Mississippi. Richard Bond made the announcement as part of his first visit as Tyson CEO to the company’s poultry processing plant on Hwy. 35 North in Carthage. 

The announcement event was attended by Bond, representatives from local hunger relief agencies and Team Members employed at the Carthage plant.  Following the event, a Tyson Foods truck containing the 38,000-pound donation unloaded several pallets of the product at Providence Christian School in Carthage, where it will be distributed through the school’s feeding program. The truck continued on to Jackson, where the remainder of the donation was unloaded at the Mississippi Food Bank Network.

Upon leaving Carthage, Bond and other Team Members traveled on to the company’s Forest facility, where they toured the plant and presented a check for $945 to the Head Start Program of Forest, funds that were raised by Team Members as part of the company’s Powering the Spirit campaign and will be used to fight childhood hunger in the Forest community.

 “It is important to us to be able to support hunger relief efforts in communities where we have operations,” said Bond.  “Since we’re a leader in the foods business it’s only natural for us to also be a leader in the fight against hunger in our nation. In fact, since the year 2000, our company has donated more than 49 million pounds of protein to help those in need.”

SPRINGDALE, Ark., Nov. 13, 2007 – A leader in the fight against hunger was in Northwest Arkansas today to meet with executives at Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE:TSN).  Bill Shore, founder and chief executive officer of Share Our Strength, met with company officials to discuss Tyson Foods’ partnership with Share Our Strength and the two organizations’ work in the fight against childhood hunger.  Tyson Foods made a donation of $9,655.88 to the Ozark Food Bank today at Tyson Foods’ headquarters. The cash contribution was the result of local fundraising efforts to eliminate childhood hunger. More than $150,000 was raised by Tyson Foods facilities nationwide.

 The event was attended by Shore, Share Our Strength’s Development Director Chuck Scofield, Tyson Foods’ Chief Executive Officer Dick Bond, representatives from Ozark Food Bank and local Tyson Team Members.

 “Tyson Foods has supported the work of Share Our Strength since 2000,” said Bond. “Our company values the great work that they do and the tremendous impact they have on childhood hunger.  We welcome Bill and Chuck to Northwest Arkansas and remain committed to Share Our Strength’s work and its mission.”

“Our corporate partners are key to helping us find long-term solutions to the problem of childhood hunger,” said Shore. “Partnering with Tyson Foods has allowed us to get much-needed protein to people who need it the most and to bring us a step closer to our goal of eliminating hunger.”
 
 Shore founded Share Our Strength in 1984 in response to the Ethiopian famine and brought fresh attention to the issue of hunger in the United States. He is also the chairman of Community Wealth Ventures, Inc., a for-profit subsidiary of Share Our Strength that provides consulting services. Shore has written three books about innovative community service, community leaders and how acts of conscience can change the world.

 Today’s donation will help many local families in need as the holiday season approaches, said Betsy Reithemeyer, executive director of the Ozark Food Bank. “We appreciate Tyson Foods’ continued support for our organization and their willingness to help end hunger here in their own backyard. The food bank supplies more than 100 area agencies with food in a four-county area.  Last year, more than 2.2 million pounds of food were distributed to people in need in the region.

CLEVELAND – Nov. 26, 2007 – Lift Up America and the Cleveland Browns are teamed up with Tyson Foods, Inc. to help bring the gift of food to the area's less fortunate on Nov. 27, 2007. Players were on hand to help unload a truck containing more than 30,000 pounds of protein products. which was distributed among hunger relief agencies in the Cleveland area. The event washeld at the Cleveland Browns Stadium.   Browns’ players scheduled to participate were: Charles Ali, Phil Dawson, Simon Fraser, Antwan Peek, Chase Pittman, Brodney Pool and Syndric Steptoe