RHODE ISLAND-BASED NONPROFIT Edesia has created a corporate-giving program, which founder and CEO Navyn Salem hopes will engage companies to help it attack the problem of malnutrition across the globe. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY
NORTH KINGSTOWN – Nonprofit Edesia announced Thursday that it is launching a new corporate giving program, allowing companies to participate in producing its humanitarian ready-to-eat food and co-brand the boxes before they are shipped out to aid workers around the world. The pilot began with toy, game and entertainment company Hasbro Inc., which shipped out…