ECKART America Management Meeting photographed November 13, 2013 at the Renaissance Columbus Downtown Hotel.

Part of their meeting, as a team building exercise, was a community outreach making several hundred meals for the Ronald McDonald House at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

Nationwide Children’s Hospital is a primary pediatric hospital in Columbus, Ohio, with more than 1,280 medical staff members and over 10,000 total employees. In recent years, the hospital has been ranked as one of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals by US News & World Report. It is also the pediatric teaching hospital for The Ohio State University College of Medicine.

Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) is an American independent nonprofit organization whose stated mission is to create, find, and support programs that directly improve the health and well-being of children. Gerald Newman, Chief Accounting Officer for McDonald’s Corporation, was “one of the founders of Ronald McDonald Children’s Charities and was president of R.M.H.C.” RMHC has a global network of chapters in 64 countries and regions under three core programs: Ronald McDonald House, Ronald McDonald Family Room and Ronald McDonald Care Mobile.