Austin businesses fight hunger with can-do spirit

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Our friends at BuildASign.com started this community-wide food drive in 2012, putting their own twist on Austin’s legacy of corporate giving.

Participating companies competed in three categories—small, medium-sized and large company—by constructing an Austin landmark entirely out of non-perishable canned food, all of which will be donated to the Food Bank. Each CANville company also made a financial donation to help Central Texans facing hunger.

You can view all of the structures on our CANville Pinterest board.

Thanks to BuildASign.com for leading CANville 2014 and to all the companies who competed: AQUILA Commercial, Blackbaud, BuildASign.com, Builder Homesite Inc., CLEAResult, DrillingInfo, Facebook, Keller Williams Realty, MapMyFitness, Offers.com, Outbound Engine, Rackspace, SailPoint, Samsung and uShip. Special thanks—and congratulations—go to this year’s winners.

Small Company: Offers.com “360 Pennybacker Bridge”

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Medium-sized Company: Keller Williams Realty “Austin City Limits Music Festival Guitar”

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Large Company: Samsung “Samsung Austin SemiCANductor”

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