The Whole Planet Foundation Team has loved seeing all the engagement and participation around 42 Days of Fu(n)(d)raising! This week’s prizes included gifts from our generous supplier partners, Garden of Life and Traditional Medicinals. Keep posting amazing entries, Whole Foods Market Team Members!! And please remember to use the hashtags #TeamWFM …
Whole Foods Market Team Member Volunteer Jessica Shares Her Experience in India
Whole Foods Market Team Member Volunteer Jessica shares how working for Whole Foods Market helped her find her purpose. I had no idea what an amazing company I was working for when I walked through the doors in August of 1996 at the old Greenville location. More than a decade …
42 Days of Fu(n)(d)raising has it’s first winning Team Members!
42 Days of Fu(n)(d)raising is a new Instagram activity for the 2015 Prosperity Campaign. Whole Foods Market Team Members are invited to share their passion and enthusiasm around the campaign on Instagram using #WPF42Days and tagging @wholeplanet for a chance to win prizes from Whole Planet Foundation and our supplier partners. …
Volunteering in the Amazon
Kelly is a Whole Foods Market Team Member Volunteer who traveled to Brazil on two different volunteer trips. Read about her experience below. In 2013 I went to Brazil for my first time through the Whole Foods Market Team Member Volunteer Program. I fell in love with the culture, the …
Lifeway Foods: More than just good for you
Lifeway Foods is a partner that finds many ways to engage with Whole Planet Foundation. We hope you enjoy this guest blog by their Community Manager, Courtney Skells, who tells the deeper story. At Lifeway Foods, we are on a mission. A mission that started in 1986 when we first …
Team Members Volunteer with The Miracle Foundation in Austin
On January 15, more than 50 Whole Foods Market Team Members from Global Data and Financial Planning Teams had a big impact on our friends at The Miracle Foundation, which helps struggling orphanages around the world. Team Members gave two hours of their time to help out at the nonprofit’s …
Road to Prosperity 5K a Huge Success
The first thing we have to say is WOW. And THANK YOU. Whole Foods Market Team Member Volunteer Bobby Covington did an outstanding job dreaming up and organizing the Road to Prosperity 5K at Camp Mabry in Austin, Texas on January 11!! The Road to Prosperity 5K was the first …
Film Review: Living On One Dollar
In rural Guatemala, four friends battle illness, parasites and hunger as they experiment with living on just $1 a day for eight weeks. Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci are friends of Whole Planet Foundation who have raised nearly $50,000 to help alleviate poverty around the world. Their film, Living on One …
$100,000 Fund Founding Partner Meets Microcredit Clients in Colombia
Happy New Year! In the spirit of the season, we are celebrating and giving thanks to Papyrus – Recycled Greetings, Inc., a Whole Foods Market supplier who made the single largest donation in one year that we have received since our inception – $100,000! In just one year, Papyrus – …
Road to Prosperity 5K in Austin
Bobby is a Team Member Volunteer who was inspired to organize a 5K fun run in January to benefit Whole Planet Foundation and the Blessing Basket Project. Hi, my name is Bobby Covington and I went on the Team Member Volunteer Program through Whole Planet Foundation to northern Ghana, where …