Welcoming New Partners to the Class of 2017

Olivia HaydenFoundation News, Supplier Partnerships

Suppliers Pledge Support in 2017 Since 2005, our partners who supply Whole Foods Market with products have given over 9 million dollars to alleviate poverty through microcredit. In 2016, partners contributed $2.1 million to help people around the world with a chance for a better life. Each year, new partners join …

Why We Give: $100K Fund Suppliers Create Prosperity

Olivia HaydenFoundation News, Supplier Partnerships, Whole Foods Market Stores

Creating Prosperity Together This year, we aim to raise $3.2 million for poverty alleviation, and we just crossed the $3 million mark! We couldn’t do this without the help of our supplier partners, Whole Foods Market Team Members and shoppers, online donors, and YOU! As part of this year’s annual …

berendina microfinance

Adding Value in Sri Lanka

Claire KellyAsia and the Pacific, Field Team Blogs, Microcredit, Travel

This blog comes to us from Claire Kelly, WPF’s Regional Director for Asia/Pacific. Adding Value: Berendina’s Enterprise Development Services (EDS) Providing access to credit is the fundamental service of all of Whole Planet Foundation’s microfinance partners. But what is the best way to support borrowers as they use their loan …

2017 Prosperity Campaign Aims to Raise $3.2 Million

Olivia HaydenEvents, Foundation News, Microcredit, Supplier Partnerships, Whole Foods Market Stores

Alleviating Poverty around the Globe Today marks the first day of Whole Planet Foundation’s 12th Prosperity Campaign, which funds microfinance organizations and microcredit loans to alleviate poverty where Whole Foods Market® sources products. This year’s campaign goal is $3.2 million, which will give approximately 90,000 opportunities to those living in extreme poverty …

Funding Opportunities with Friendship Bridge in Guatemala

Olivia HaydenField Team Blogs, Foundation News, Latin America and the Caribbean, Microcredit, Travel

Whole Planet Foundation is excited to announce a new partnership with microfinance partner Friendship Bridge, or Puente de Amistad, in Guatemala. Over the course of the next three years, Friendship Bridge will receive $300,000 from Whole Planet Foundation to support its new branch in Huehuetenango. There is an unmet need in …

Whole Planet Foundation® and partners to host pre-GRAMMY® benefit in Hollywood

Olivia HaydenEvents, Music, Musicians for Microcredit, Supplier Partnerships

Produced by Clamorhouse and featuring performances by 6 leading acts On Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, Whole Planet Foundation, Clamorhouse and other valued partners will honor Olowo-n’djo Tchala and Prairie Rose Hyde, co-founders of Alaffia, for alleviating poverty in Togo and around the globe. The biennial celebration will take place at …

Three Ways Musicians are Alleviating Poverty in 2017

Olivia HaydenFoundation News, Microcredit, Music, Musicians for Microcredit

Whole Planet Foundation’s Musicians For Microcredit program is a way for bands and artists alleviate poverty worldwide by partnering with Whole Planet Foundation. From digital downloads to in-store performances and benefit concerts, we work with the music community to empower entrepreneurs around the world to change their own lives. For the month of …

WPF Invests $1,000,000 in Austin

Joy StoddardThe United States, Uncategorized

When Whole Planet Foundation starting funding microcredit in our own town, everything changed for our locally based donors who got to meet the women we had been describing, women whom we met all over the globe.  Women who are smart, strong, capable, industrious, skilled, and eager to share their challenges …