Giving Compass' Take:

• Chobani yogurt is committed to alleviating food insecurity in schools by forming partnerships with other food organizations and paying off school lunch debts. 

• What are alternative ways that Chobani could revitalize efforts to address food insecurity and food shaming? How can other companies get involved?

• Here are three tactics helping schools tackle food insecurity. 

At a time when most packaged goods companies are struggling to eke out any growth (and major dairy companies seem to declare bankruptcy monthly), privately-held Chobani is reported to be growing at quite a clip.

Eating yogurt may not be the key to a centenarian lifespan, but Chobani has built a very successful business around providing people with access to healthy food.

The marketing trades rightly extoll many innovative measures Chobani President Peter McGuinness has spearheaded for helping to post those impressive numbers. McGuinness says that the way the company brings its values to life has also played a major role in that success.

Back in May, members of the Chobani team were among many people shocked by a news story coming out of Warwick, Rhode Island. The school district had declared that it would restrict main lunch options to nut butter and jelly sandwiches to students who were behind on paying off their cafeteria debt.

It took only two days for Chobani to announce that it was contributing about $45,000 to join other good Samaritans in paying off the Warwick school lunch debt.

The company increased its commitment to fighting hunger in a number of ways. It formed partnerships with Feeding America and the Food Research & Action Center to lobby in Washington, DC. It paid off school debt in the communities where it operates in upstate New York and Idaho. It continued its practice of making in-kind and monetary donations.

Read the full article about Chobani addressing food insecurity by David Hessekiel at Forbes.