Wells Fargo has donated $100,000 to the Food Bank of Iowa to help provide meals to residents in need this holiday season. According to a news release, the donation will help put 400,000 meals on tables of local residents. The donation brings the total amount Wells Fargo has contributed to the Food Bank of Iowa in 2020 to $196,000. The company also held two drive-up food distribution events earlier this fall at its branch on Army Post Road in Des Moines, where 32,000 pounds of food was distributed, enough to provide about 26,000 meals. The company says that by the end of this year, with the combination of food distribution events and $10 million donated to Feeding America, it will have helped provide 82 million meals to help fight food insecurity nationwide. “We know that 1-in-6 people in the U.S. may experience food insecurity this year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and 40 percent of those seeking assistance from food banks are doing so for the first time in their lives,” Wells Fargo Region Bank President Marta Codina said in the release. “The Food Bank of Iowa has been doing phenomenal work this year to meet our community’s sharp rise in food insecurity, and we’re proud to support their efforts to provide more meals to hungry Iowans.”

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