We have reached the halfway mark of our annual Prosperity Campaign and with 19 days left we are 56% to our goal of raising $7,000,000, creating 40,000 microloans and reaching 250,000 people around the world. We couldn’t do it without! There are many ways to contribute to our mission and support the hard work, creativity and the ingenuity of women entrepreneurs around the world.
While shopping at your local Whole Foods Market:
- Look for Supplier Alliance for Microcredit products that donate $50,000 each per year
- Living On One is exclusively available at stores around the US and 5% of sales support our work
- Round up your change at the register
While Online:
- Share this Tweet or Facebook post to show that you’re invested in a future without poverty
- Check the events calendar for your local Whole Foods Market store
- Make a donation. $1 goes a long way in microcredit
- Watch these videos on Grameen America, India, Costa Rica, or learn more about microcredit
Tell us how you’re investing in a future without poverty in the comments below.
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I really would like to become involved with Whole Planet Foundation as a photographer. I am currently on my way to Sri Lanka, the land of my birth, and will be back in California on April 11, 2014. Is there someone that I can correspond with in the meantime about how my volunteer services may be of assistance to the Foundation?
I look forward to your earliest response.
Thank you in advance.
David Grenier
That million plus that went out of the US and into VietNam should have gone into on of our US centers of need for development of our own people trying to start and grow a business. Why do we think that a not looking in our own backyard first is OK? Our own poverty and unemployment is astounding here in the US. We need to fix us where we live before we take $1million plus and give it to another country.
I’m not being insensitive, just pragmatic and very honest – we need that kind of help, program support right here in the US and no, we cant ask our government to do it because we too are no longer cash rich at the government level.
Author
Hi Neil,
Thanks for reaching out and for your interest in Whole Planet Foundation. We are committed to alleviating all around the world. Whole Planet Foundation works in 60 countries, including the US, where we are working in 10 US cities with our partner Grameen America. In the US, we’ve authorized $4,500,000 and are supporting an estimated 2,400 women entrepreneurs. Our newsletter was to simply announce our latest disbursement to our partner in Vietnam.
You can see where we work here:https://wholeplanetfoundation.org/support/map/ and view our dashboard of support here: https://wholeplanetfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Slide1.jpg
Please let me know if you have any other questions.
Thanks,
Daniel