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Thank you to our partner The Miracle Foundation for providing this post. A trip to India with The Miracle Foundation is truly a life-changing experience! Because transparency is one of our core values, we want you, our sponsors and donors, to witness first hand how we are using your generous …

Thanks to everyone who participated in our first weekend hashtag project #WPFhome. This weekend we asked participants to create photographs based on their interpretation of HOME. Be on the look out for more weekend projects coming soon and for your chance to be featured. Here are some of our favorites …

Weekend Hashtag Project: #WPFhome We — @WholePlanet on Instagram — will be hosting biweekly weekend hashtag projects and we want you to participate! With a team that lives all around the world, we want to give you a glimpse into the lives that we all lead and we are excited …

Thanks to  Julian Omidi – Co-Founder of No More Poverty for contributing this blog post. Billions are suffering around the planet as a result of poverty, but many do not realize how deeply poverty can affect the lives of those who live with it. When people think of poverty they …

Thanks to the incredible generosity of Whole Foods Market shoppers, Team Members and Whole Planet Foundation supporters like you, we not only reached our goal, but surpassed our stretch goal for this year’s Annual Prosperity Campaign raising over $6,260,000. The amazing support we saw this year will help us fund …

Thanks to Theresa Kiene from Homemade harvey for authoring this blog post. I didn’t intend to start a business. I just wanted to solve a problem – getting enough fresh fruits and vegetables in me and my family’s diet.  And since our lives weren’t slowing down anytime soon we needed fresh …

Help American Winter make an impact in communities and legislatures nationwide Posted by Joe and Harry Gantz, Directors/Producers of American Winter American Winter, which is now playing on HBO, follows the stories of families struggling to keep their heads above water in the wake of the Great Recession, and highlights …

A huge thanks to Peter Ryan, Founder and CEO of the MicroLoan Foundation, for contributing this blog post. MicroLoan Foundation is a Whole Planet Foundation partner in Malawi where WFM sources WTG vegan cane sugar. We chose to set up in Malawi because it is one of the poorest countries …

One Acre Fund is an agriculture nonprofit that offers asset-based microfinance to over 130,000 smallholder farmers in Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi. This blog post, written by communications associate Hailey Tucker, describes one of One Acre Fund’s (OAF) field staff in Kenya. Before the weekly facilitator’s meeting in Khalumuli, Kenya, farmers …