So you’re participating in our Courage of One Challenge with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part I and you want to learn more about poverty alleviation in the Middle East and North Africa? TOPIC: Working with Historically Marginalized Communities in the Middle East and North Africa: Beyond just expanding access …
Whole Planet Foundation’s Field Officer Appreciation Awards: Africa and the Middle East
Whole Planet Foundation wants to acknowledge the achievements of the Field Officers who work for our microfinance partners around the globe. In July 2014, we piloted a new Field Officer Appreciation Award in the Africa/MENA region. In total, this region includes 22 partner institutions that collectively employ more than 6,000 Field …
Courage of One Challenge: Poverty Quiz on Central America
So you’re participating in our Courage of One Challenge with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part I and you want to learn more about poverty alleviation in Central America? For people living in poverty, keeping financially afloat is a constant struggle as lack of savings means that many families are …
Whole Foods Market Regional President Releases New Album in Support of Poverty Alleviation
Thank you to Patrick Bradley for contributing to this post and supporting Whole Planet Foundation through this album release! Deducing from the new CD cover photograph of keyboardist/composer Patrick Bradley standing in front of mega-power satellite dishes – looking like a pioneering master of aviation from a bygone era …
Courage of One Challenge: Poverty Quiz on the United States
So you’re participating in our Courage of One Challenge with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part I and you want to learn more about poverty in the United States? Poverty is the most pressing problem facing the world. It either magnifies the devastation of other global issues like HIV or …
ORGANIC INDIA: We Are One, And Poverty Is Unnecessary
Thank you to the ORGANIC INDIA team for contributing to this post! It was hard to ignore the surprise in their eyes when we walked into the village. These women, with their weathered skin wrapped in a rainbow of faded-but-fine saris, were not accustomed to seeing westerners in person. …
Celebrate Poverty is Unnecessary Day with Us!
It may not be a national holiday or a day recorded in the history books, but for 851,000 people worldwide and for us, October 25 is an important date! It is the day Whole Foods Market launched Whole Planet Foundation with a mission to fight global poverty through microcredit. Nine years later, …
Courage of One Challenge: Poverty Quiz on Sub-Saharan Africa
So you’re participating in our Courage of One Challenge with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part I and you want to learn more about Sub-Saharan Africa?
Vitalah, Creators of Oxylent, is Now Making Monthly Donations
We are grateful to have Vitalah donating monthly to support microentrepreneurs around the world. Thanks to Lisa Lent, Founder and CEO of Vitalah, for contributing this post! Vitalah, creators of Oxylent, is pleased to donate monthly to the Whole Planet Foundation, to help support the foundation’s mission of alleviating poverty …
Papyrus-Recycled Greetings Joins Whole Planet Foundation’s Mission
Thanks to Papyrus-Recycled Greetings for contributing this blog post. We are pleased this company values entrepreneurship and expression and that its core values resemble the mission of Whole Planet Foundation. At Papyrus-Recycled Greetings, we inspire personal connections like no other company can with greeting cards and gift-giving accessories that make life’s moments more …