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Whole Planet, a pillar of Whole Foods Market Foundation, helps people living in poverty build long-term financial resilience through income growth, savings, and access to essential resources like food, shelter, water & sanitation.

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100+ Advocates Join the Poverty is Unnecessary Project 2020
The Poverty Is Unnecessary Project includes Poverty Is Unnecessary Fund members donating $25,000 each to alleviate global poverty and culminates in the Poverty Is Unnecessary Online Auction & Celebration on October 25 that will mark 15 years of this work by Whole Planet Foundation and its many supporters.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Whole Planet Foundation Poverty Is Unnecessary Partners Commit $350,000 to Alleviate Global Poverty
Each October, Whole Planet Foundation celebrates its global impact on poverty and the partners who further its mission.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Whole Planet Foundation Launches Annual Poverty Is Unnecessary Project
This October, Whole Planet Foundation celebrates its global impact on poverty and the partners who further its mission.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Whole Planet Foundation and Microfinance Partners Respond to the COVID-19 Crisis: Update
In March, I wrote the blog Whole Planet Foundation and Microfinance Partners Respond to the COVID-19 Crisis around how those living in poverty are already in a more vulnerable position, which can be further exacerbated during any external shock such as war, earthquakes, droughts or health crises.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Last-Mile Investment in Malawi: A Whole Planet Foundation Interview with GGEM Farming's Ko Chijota
The Whole Planet Foundation team is excited to introduce our new partnership with GGEM Farming, a young social enterprise operating out of Nkhotakota, on the shores of Lake Malawi.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

How You Can Make an Impact with a $10 Donation to Whole Planet Foundation
Whole Planet Foundation is a Whole Foods Market non-profit dedicated to alleviating poverty through microcredit around the globe in countries that supply stores with products.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Realtors Reducing Poverty: Tony Sells SLC
Tony was instrumental in his former employer showing up one day to the Whole Foods Market headquarters office in Austin, Texas with a Big Check made out to Whole Planet Foundation for $100,000.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Infographic | Whole Planet Foundation and Partners Alleviating Poverty in the United States and Around the World Through Microcredit
Every quarter Whole Planet Foundation aggregates field metrics from our microfinance partners who are disbursing and collecting microcredit loans to low-income entrepreneurs living in countries where Whole Foods Market sources products.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Why Does Such A Thing Exist? Solidarity Microfinance for Women in the United States
While most of us generally consider the United States to be a “rich” country by global standards, and while this is true by several measures, many people in the U.S. still live in poverty.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Empowering Entrepreneurs: Interview with Rob Howard of Brooksource
Brooksource is a proud event sponsor of the Whole Planet Foundation Virtual 5K that raised $63,000 to alleviate poverty around the globe.
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