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 …
Our Inaugural Fashion Show Fundraiser: Beauty in All Beings
Natural Products Expo West is the world’s largest expo of its kind, with more than 3,000 vendors and 70,000+ attendees, and being that we are a Whole Foods Market foundation, we attend every year. I have always wanted to find a way to connect in a meaningful and impactful way …
Our Top Supplier Partners Commit $1.1 Million for 2015
One of my favorite and most impactful parts of my job is working with 600+ Whole Foods Market suppliers who join our mission in a variety of ways, from committing a percentage of their sales during a specific time period up to a $100,000 commitment over the course of a …
Microcredit To Take Hollywood By Storm During GRAMMY Week
On Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015, Whole Planet Foundation, Whole Foods Market and other valued partners will honor our friends Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci for alleviating poverty through their film, “Living on One Dollar.” The private event will take place at Whole Planet Foundation’s annual pre-GRAMMY® benefit, which will be held at …
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 …
Setting New Intentions for 2015
As we begin 2015, many of us are setting new intentions for the year ahead. We would like to share some stories about some of our supplier partners and products that support a healthier regime for the new year. Taking time to relax and breathe with the Spoonk acupressure mat …
$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 – …
Stocking Stuffers That Make a Difference
Whole Planet Foundation is fortunate to work with so many corporate partners and Whole Foods Market suppliers who have joined our mission of domestic and developing world poverty alleviation. One of the many ways that our partners can fund microlending programs around the globe is through the scanback program, where …
ORGANIC INDIA: We Are One, And Poverty Is Unnecessary
Thank you to the ORGANIC INDIA team for contributing to this post! It was hard to ignore the surprise in their eyes when we walked into the village. These women, with their weathered skin wrapped in a rainbow of faded-but-fine saris, were not accustomed to seeing westerners in person. …
Celebrate Poverty is Unnecessary Day with Us!
It may not be a national holiday or a day recorded in the history books, but for 851,000 people worldwide and for us, October 25 is an important date! It is the day Whole Foods Market launched Whole Planet Foundation with a mission to fight global poverty through microcredit. Nine years later, …