Thank you to Vita Coco for contributing to this post! Two guys meet two Brazilian women at a Lower East Side bar in New York. It sounds like the beginning of a joke but it’s actually the beginning of the Vita Coco brand. Since that fateful evening in 2004, Vita …
CAURIE Visit with Natalie
Hey everybody! My name is Natalie and I am a guest writer for the Whole Planet blog today. I am a student at Virginia Tech, living and working in Dakar for six weeks to get experience related to my Economics and French majors. I have been interested in economic development …
Weekend Hashtag Project: #WPFcolor
Thanks to everyone who participated in our weekend hashtag project #WPFcolor. This past weekend we asked participants to create photographs based on the vibrant colors that surround us daily. Be on the look out for more weekend projects coming soon and for your chance to be featured. Here are some …
Instagram Weekend Hashtag Project
Weekend Hashtag Project: #WPFcolor We — @WholePlanet on Instagram — are hosting weekend hashtag projects and we want you to participate! The goal of this project is to encourage participants to share COLOR. Vibrant colors surround us every day in our clothes, home and even food. Over the weekend we …
Travel to India with The Miracle Foundation
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 …
Growing the Range of Whole Planet Microfinance Clients
One of the Whole Planet Foundation’s (WPF) newest partners is helping low-income borrowers in two new partner countries that supply Whole Foods Markets with chocolate. Aga Khan Foundation’s partnership with WPF started with a $500,000 interest free loan to Première Agence de Microfinance (PAMF) in Madagascar in 2012 to support …
Beehive Cheese to Fund Poverty Alleviation around the Globe
Just two weeks ago and on the heels of our 2013 Prosperity Campaign, we announced our new 57th project country of Mongolia. We would not be able to continue expanding into more project endeavors and new countries without the tremendous support from Whole Foods Market and its Team Members and …
Weekend Hashtag Project: #WPFhome
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 …
Instagram Weekend Hashtag Project
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 …
Making a Different through Hommus
Thanks to Aimee from Cedar’s Mediterranean Foods, Inc. for this blog post. Each morning, as I walk into the Cedar’s Mediterranean Foods, Inc.’s corporate headquarters in Ward Hill, MA, the distinct scent of steamed chickpeas greets me. This morning, as walking up the granite slated stairs of the Mediterranean-esque lobby …