Like Customer Service,
Community Service is a Priority at Dierbergs

Dierbergs Markets' involvement in community service is like an umbrella offered to a customer on a rainy day:  It's the chance to lend a helping hand.  Dierbergs strives to establish and build solid relationships within the community.  Through contributions and partnerships with organizations such as the United Way, the YMCA of Greater St. Louis and Operation Food Search, Dierbergs makes serving the community as much a priority as serving the customer. 

"An important part of being in the community is giving back to the community," says Roger Dierberg, Vice Chairman.  "It has a synergistic effect and everyone benefits."

Dierbergs' community service at a glance:

• Dierbergs has supported the United Way for more than 20 years, with Dierbergs' Associate and company contributions totaling $250,000 annually.
• In the early '70s, Dierbergs was asked to help the YMCA with fund-raising efforts to construct a facility in Chesterfield, Mo. Already on the Board of Directors, Roger Dierberg helped lead the effort.  The "Dierbergs Family Center" was built in recognition of a substantial donation the Dierberg family made to the facility.  Still on the Board of Directors today, Roger Dierberg helps with the YMCA's yearly Partner Campaign which raised $2.5 million in 2004.
• Dierbergs has donated in excess of $1,000,000 worth of food products to Operation Food Search (OFS) every year for the past ten years.  Dierbergs also supports Operation Food Search's annual "Hunger Never Takes a Vacation" annual summer food drive. 
• Bob Dierberg is past Chairman of the annual National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ) Brotherhood Sisterhood Awards Dinner here in St. Louis.  This organization was founded in 1927 as the National Conference for Christians and Jews and is a human relations organization dedicated to fighting bias, bigotry and racism in America.  
•  As a sponsor of the this year's 15^th Annual American Heart Walk, Dierbergs contributed nearly $97,000 through walker dollars, fundraisers and in-store heart sales.  
• Dierbergs is a long-time annual sponsor of the Family Walk, benefiting Lutheran Family and Children's Services of Missouri.  
• Each November and December Dierbergs joins hundreds of other supermarket chains across the country to help "Food for All," which benefits the Salvation Army locally, and anti-hunger programs in the USA and around the world. 
•  Dierbergs partnered with the Lindbergh School District and St. Louis Community College at Meramec to develop the Food Industry Management Program, an award-winning work-study program designed to give college-bound students work-based experiences the retail food industry.
•  As a member of the Executive Board of the Greater St. Louis Area Council Boys Scouts of America, Roger Dierberg helps out yearly with the Friends of Scouting campaign.  
• Through a donation Dierbergs made to Lindenwood University, a scholarship is provided annually to two deserving Lindenwood students.
•  Each day, Dierbergs receives dozens of donation requests from schools, churches and community organizations.  The combined total of food, flowers, monetary and gift card donations and discounts is more than $700,000 annually.  Dierbergs Central Office Donations Committee makes contributions to such organizations as ALS Association, Angel's Arms, Arts and Education Council, Assistance League of St. Louis, Delta Gamma Center for Children, Girl Scouts Council of St. Louis, LPGA Pro-Am Golf, MO Colleges Fund, Operation Brightside, St. Martha's Hall  and St. Louis Symphony.