Community Involvement

Marathon Cheese was founded with an ideology of community support and charitable fellowship. The company is actively involved in Junior Achievement of Wisconsin and since 2004, has partnered with United Way of Marathon County (www.unitedwaymc.org) and Taylor County (www.unitedway.org) to help serve the community both financially and through employer-sponsored volunteerism. Marathon Cheese employees have contributed over $650,000 to the cause. Employees have also engaged in United Way sponsored initiatives such as Smack Hunger and Adopt a Classroom.

The advantages of Marathon Cheese allowed for the 1982 formation of the Raymond and Marie Goldbach Foundation. The Foundation supports a wide variety of charities, and tries whenever possible, to direct aid where it will benefit employees of Marathon Cheese. To promote and encourage higher learning, each year a number of scholarship programs are sponsored by the Foundation, including one that is offered to the children of Marathon Cheese Corporation personnel as well as the four local area high schools.

Smack Hunger

A hard-working Marathon Cheese team joined a group of volunteers to pack meals for people in need. The approximately 15,000 meals filled the Hunger Coalition truck and will be distributed to the local food pantries. The annual event is sponsored by United Way’s Emerging Leaders.

Marathon Area Swim Assoc

Through their generosity, the Ray and Marie Goldbach Swim Center was built in 1988. To this day the Foundation continues to provide assistance to the Center which has been the venue for many individuals who may not otherwise have learned how to swim.

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Adopt a Classroom

For the second straight year Marathon Cheese has participated in this United Way initiative by adopting two classrooms at Marathon Area Elementary School. With funds contributed by MCC, supplies to germinate and plant vegetable seeds are purchased for the classrooms. Volunteers enter the classrooms to read to and assist children prepare their seeds to grow. This exercise teaches children basic skills in planting a garden that can provide them with nutritious food at a very low cost—skills that can last a lifetime.