2013 Annual Prosperity Campaign

daniel.vidalUncategorized

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 …

Right Now Counts Forever

daniel.vidalUncategorized

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 …

Bring back the American Dream for struggling families

daniel.vidalUncategorized

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 Story from our Partner – MicroLoan Foundation

daniel.vidalUncategorized

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 …

Learn more about Carolyn from One Acre Fund

daniel.vidalUncategorized

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 …