VQ Cares: Expanding Access to Nutrition Through Industry Partnerships

In this episode of Supplement Source, host Jeff Ventura (Council for Responsible Nutrition) sits down with Gregory Drew, VP of Innovation at Vitaquest and a leader of the company’s VQ Cares initiative. Together, they explore how Vitaquest is tackling health equity by manufacturing and donating high-quality multivitamins through partnerships with the National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics (NAFC), as part of CRN's Access Initiative.

Greg shares the program’s origin story, its ambitious first-year goal of donating over $500,000 worth of supplements, and how Vitaquest is inviting ingredient suppliers, service providers, and peers across the dietary supplement industry to join the effort. 

Listeners will come away inspired by how VQ Cares is not just a philanthropic project, but a scalable model for how industry collaboration can make a lasting impact on communities nationwide. 

About the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) 
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), founded in 1973, is a Washington, D.C.-based trade association representing 180 dietary supplement and functional food manufacturers, ingredient suppliers, and companies providing services to those manufacturers and suppliers. In addition to complying with a host of federal and state regulations governing dietary supplements and food in the areas of manufacturing, marketing, quality control and safety, our manufacturer and supplier members also agree to adhere to additional voluntary guidelines as well as to CRN’s Code of Ethics. Follow us on Twitter @CRN_Supplements and LinkedIn.