Soup’s on at Fidelity for NH Food Bank

In June, employees at Fidelity Investments teamed up to make minestrone soup — enough to feed 50,000 families served by the New Hampshire Food Bank.

In June, employees at Fidelity Investments teamed up to make minestrone soup — enough to feed 50,000 families served by the New Hampshire Food Bank.

For the volunteer event, 480 employees at the company’s campus in Merrimack donned aprons, hairnets, facemasks and latex gloves and arranged themselves in assembly lines to fill packets with ingredients for a dry soup mix, which they then weighed and sealed. Small teams working in shifts each packed the equivalent of 1,050 meals. 

This was the fourth year Fidelity partnered with the Food Bank for the meal packing program,
said Amy Branson, director of the regional leadership office for Fidelity. 

“We’ve been able to scale it and have it take place simultaneously in both of our buildings,” said Branson, who just celebrated her 30th year with Fidelity. 

Elsy Cipriani, executive director of the Food Bank, said she appreciates that Fidelity has been a
long-time partner. 

“This is great because these are meals that are going to people facing food insecurity,” she said. 

The New Hampshire Food Bank distributed 20 million pounds of food in 2025, its highest ever, Cipriani said.

— Mike Cote