Chicken of Sea honors Golden Heart Ranch

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CHICKEN OF THE SEA® HONORS GOLDEN HEART RANCH DURING LOS ANGELES STOP OF 100TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR Los Angeles nonprofit will use $10,000 Chicken of the Sea Gratitude Award to help provide residential communities for special needs adults LOS ANGELES (July 1, 2014) – In celebration of its 100th anniversary in 2014 and visit to Los Angeles, Chicken of the Sea is partnering with Golden Heart Ranch to help the nonprofit agency continue its work throughout Southern California.

San Diego-based Chicken of the Sea awarded Golden Heart Ranch a $10,000 Gratitude Award during the Los Angeles stop of its Great American Gratitude Tour, a 39-city, coast-to-coast journey that honors nonprofits and individuals for extraordinary grassroots community service. The Tour is part of the year-long Chicken of the Sea: 100 Years of Good, one of the largest, most comprehensive Pay it Forward initiatives in consumer packaged goods history. (more)

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Golden Heart Ranch strives to provide an exceptional residential community where special needs young adults can live, learn and work side-byside. Golden Heart Ranch looks to create a harmonious and caring environment for these individuals that is emotionally and physically safe. Golden Heart Ranch is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

According to Rose van Wier Hein, founder/executive director of Golden Heart Ranch, the organization will use the money to continue providing important programs through life skills and social skills classes, as well as maintaining the focus of creating a safe, caring living environment for special needs young adults.

“We believe that all individuals – including those with special needs – should have the opportunity to reach their fullest potential and have the right to a dignified and quality way of life,” van Wier Hein said.

100 Years of Good combines commemorative packaging, promotions and retailer programs with the Great American Gratitude initiative that will award 100 community-minded individuals and nonprofits with a total of $1 million in 2014 to enable them to continue their charitable ways.

“Instead of talking about ourselves for our 100th anniversary, Chicken of the Sea is looking back by paying it forward,” said Christie Fleming, Chicken of the Sea senior VP of marketing. “We’re using our Centennial as an opportunity to put the spotlight on everyday American heroes that are making a real difference in their communities. Awarding them with $10,000, is our way of helping ensure that they can continue the cycle of good.”

For more information on Chicken of the Sea’s 100 Years of Good and Great American Gratitude Tour, or to nominate a recipient or nonprofit for a $10,000 Great American Gratitude award, go to www.chickenofthesea.com/100.

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About Golden Heart Ranch Golden Heart Ranch® is dedicated to building an intentional residential community where special needs young adults can live, learn, and work side-by-side in a harmonious and caring environment that is emotionally and physically safe. Eighty-percent of special needs adults are not able to move out of the home upon exiting the school system, because there is nowhere to go, and the problem is growing. Golden Heart Ranch is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. For more information, go to http://www.goldenheartranch.org/j/ About Chicken of the Sea Chicken of the Sea (COS) celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2014 as a leading provider of healthy, sustainable and delicious seafood, offering not only a robust product line but the recipes and meal-planning insights needed to inspire seafood lovers to greater culinary creativity and inspiration. The company provides tuna, salmon, clams, crab, oysters, shrimp, mackerel, kipper snacks and sardines in cans, cups and pouches as well as innovative new products consistent with seafood’s growing status as a healthy “new” protein choice in America.

Headquartered in San Diego, COS sustainably sources its seafood products from around the world, and packages them at a state-of-the-art processing facility in Lyons, Ga., as well as at third-party facilities. The company is led by a team of industry veterans with more than 300 years of collective experience in the packaged seafood industry.

For information on Chicken of the Sea, including recipes, serving suggestions and nutritional and meal-planning insights as well as information on the latest new Chicken of the Sea products, go to www.chickenofthesea.com.

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