Each year, we celebrate the Whole Foods Market® Global 5% Day that seeded Whole Planet Foundation. On October 25, 2005 these funds helped kick start the dream of alleviating poverty through microcredit where Whole Foods Market® sources products. For the past twelve years, Whole Planet Foundation has received generous support …
Interview with Rene Geneva, Powering Independence through Solar
Rene Geneva has worn multiple (and stylish!) hats over the years. Whole Planet Foundation has benefitted from Rene’s generosity since the late 2000s and now that she is starting her own Indiegogo Campaign, she is once again investing in a future without poverty by supporting Whole Planet Foundation with a percentage …
Microfinance in the Face of Adversity
Brian Doe is Whole Planet Foundation’s Regional Director for Africa and the Middle East. During annual field visits to our microfinance partners, we often see them searching for better ways to help their clients. Unexpected household shocks can seriously jeopardize the livelihoods of the poorest entrepreneurs and their families. The …
Mercy Corps: Disaster Response and Preparation
This blog comes to us from Mercy Corps, our microfinance partner in Nepal. WPF has funded $929,000 in Nepal since 2008, creating 12,038 microloans for entrepreneurs in the Sankhubashabha, Terhthum and Udaypur districts. The past few weeks have been devastating for hundreds of thousands of families. In the United States, Hurricane Harvey brought destructive …
Thank You for Running in the Virtual 10K!
Thank you to our friends who ran a Virtual 10K with us from August 3-7 this year. The combined impact of our $10,000 Fund partners, runners, Whole Foods Market® Team Members and other supporters this year added up to $140,000 raised for impoverished women all over the world to start …
The Seaweed Bath Co. Pays it Forward as Part of 10K Fund
This guest blog comes to us from Allison Grossman, Co-Founder of Austin-based The Seaweed Bath Co. From July 31-August 13, 2017, 15% of all sales of The Seaweed Bath Co. products will be donated to Whole Planet Foundation’s poverty alleviation programs. Hi, it’s Allison from The Seaweed Bath Co. here …
Enter to Win a Year of Cedar’s Hommus During our Virtual 10K Run
What does it mean to go beyond hommus? For Cedar’s, it means telling the truth about what they do and being transparent about how they do it. It means making the food everyone loves without artificial preservatives and additives. Going beyond hommus also means supporting Whole Planet Foundation’s poverty alleviation …
Run Hydrated! Hydration Tips for your 10K Run
This guest blog comes to us from Vishal Patel, Chief Nutritionist at Nuun Hydration. This year, Nuun joined WPF’s $10,000 Fund, pledging to fund, on average, 53 average first microloans for impoverished entrepreneurs around the globe this year. Nuun Hydration is a proud sponsor of this year’s Virtual 10K Run, benefiting Whole …
WPF & Partners Kick Off Virtual 10K Run on August 3rd
Get ready to sweat for a great cause this summer, because our second annual Virtual 10K Run happens wherever you are from August 3-7! We plan to have over 500 participants running with us during the 5-day event in order to support global poverty alleviation programs, with 100% of run …
Supplier Donors Experience Microcredit with WPF & Partners
Papyrus-Recycled Paper Greetings, founder of Whole Planet Foundation’s 100K Fund, dives into poverty alleviation! In addition to supporting Whole Planet Foundation’s mission since 2012 with an annual contribution of $100,000, they have traveled with us to international and domestic projects to witness the impact of their generosity in the field and volunteer alongside …