The Mercer Street Friends Food Bank received a year-end corporate gift of $75,000 from Princeton-based corporation Church & Dwight Co., as well as a $10,000 grant from the company’s Employee Giving Fund for its healthy eating programs.

“We are truly overwhelmed and so very grateful that Church & Dwight and its employees have chosen to support our work to end hunger with such largesse and generosity of heart,” said Food Bank Director Phyllis Stoolmacher, “These dollars will help to ensure that we have the food and the nutrition programs to help children, the elderly, the unemployed, the working poor, and families in crisis to weather these difficult economic times.”

The Mercer Street Friends Food Bank is the largest source of government and privately donated food for hunger relief programs in Mercer County. In 2011, Mercer Street Friends supplied three million pounds of food and groceries and nutrition-related resources to a network of 60 food panties, soup kitchens, shelters and meal programs, and helped to feed over 25,000 children and adults facing food hardships.

Church & Dwight Co., Inc. manufactures and markets a wide range of personal care, household and specialty products under the Arm & Hammer brand name and other well-known trademarks.

The Church & Dwight Employee Giving Fund is a workplace giving fund which was established in 2005 to meet the desires of Church & Dwight employees to financially assist those that are less fortunate and to actively support and participate in the good works of not-for-profit organizations dedicated to that end.

“Church & Dwight has a deep commitment to supporting charitable organizations where their employees live and work and we are most fortunate to be among the charities they support. We thank them and their employees for their extraordinary confidence in our work,” said Ms. Stoolmacher.