Reaching Entrepreneurs in Somalia through Partnership with KIMS Microfinance

Zoe SoFoundation News, Microfinance Partners, The Middle East and North Africa

Whole Planet Foundation is excited to announce our new partnership with KIMS Microfinance in Somalia! Our three-year, $300,000 project with KIMS will support an estimated 1,000 microentrepreneurs through the group business loan product. This project is Whole Planet Foundation’s first with outreach in Somalia beyond the Somaliland region. Financial services …

Power Your Purpose Virtual 5K Raises $25,000 for Low-Income Entrepreneurs

Whole Planet Foundation10K Supplier Partners, Events

Five hundred and fifteen participants joined Whole Planet Foundation’s 2021 Power Your Purpose Virtual 5K to run, walk, bike or move for microcredit.  Registration fees, donations and sponsorships from this online event will fund more than 145 microcredit loans through Whole Planet Foundation, creating 760 opportunities for low-income entrepreneurs and their family …

Whole Planet Foundation Raises $1.1 Million to Alleviate Poverty Around the Globe

Whole Planet FoundationNews, Press Releases, Prosperity Campaign, Whole Foods Market Stores

For two weeks from June 23 – July 6, Whole Foods Market raised $1,114,474 from generous shoppers for Whole Planet Foundation to alleviate poverty in countries supplying Whole Foods Market stores with products. Whole Planet Foundation is a Whole Foods Market nonprofit dedicated to funding microcredit – small loans usually less …

$50,000 Supplier Donors are Funding Her Essential Business in 2021

Whole Planet Foundation50K Supplier Partners, Prosperity Campaign, Supplier Partnerships

This year, we honor generous $50,000 Fund donors who are collectively committing $650,000 in 2021 to alleviate global poverty through microcredit. These like-minded brands form the Supplier Alliance of Microcredit, a group of companies committed to supporting microentrepreneurs, primarily women, with opportunities to improve their own lives. The microloans they …

Whole Planet Foundation Launches Annual Campaign to Alleviate Poverty

Joy Stoddard100K Supplier Partners, 50K Supplier Partners, Press Releases, Whole Foods Market Stores

For two weeks beginning June 23, shoppers can donate at the registers in Whole Foods Market stores in the U.S., Canada and the UK and online to alleviate poverty in countries that supply Whole Foods Market stores with products. Since 2006, Whole Planet Foundation has disbursed $92 million through microfinance partners in 78 …