Fresh Produce Giving
At Fresh Produce, we believe it's good corporate citizenship and good karma to give something back to the community, which is why over the last three years Fresh Produce has donated an average of 1.29% of our annual revenues to charity. We've cultivated relationships with many worthy organizations nationally, internationally and in our hometown of Boulder, Colorado and the surrounding areas. Click on an organization below to learn more about their mission.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation ® (http://www.wish.org)
The Make-A-Wish Foundation® grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength, and joy. Born in 1980 when a group of caring individuals helped a young boy fulfill his dream of becoming a police officer, the Foundation is now the largest wish-granting charity in the world, with 71 chapters in the U.S. and its territories. Granting more than 12,000 wishes a year and 132,000 wishes in the United States since inception, the Make-A-Wish Foundation celebrated “25 Years Making Wishes Come True” in 2005. For more information about the Make-A-Wish Foundation, visit http://www.wish.org and discover how you can share the power of a wish.
The Women's Wilderness Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening the courage, confidence, and leadership skills of girls and women, through the support and challenge of wilderness and community-based experiences. The Institute offers fun, educational, and inspiring courses in backpacking, rock climbing, mountain biking, canoeing, fly fishing and yoga. Since 1998, over 2000 women and girls have participated in multi-day outdoor expeditions, building outdoor skills, discovering the power of their own voices, and finding the confidence to make a difference in their world. Thanks to our generous foundation and corporate partners, individual donors, and fees from the Women's program, approximately 60% of girls receive full or partial scholarships, ensuring that girls of all income levels and ethnic backgrounds are included.
Fresh Produce is proud to be a key sponsor of Moving Mountains on Wednesday, October 11 at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. Moving Mountains is an annual fundraising dinner and speaker series in which Marie Wilson, author of Mother-Daughter Revolution and co-founder of Take Our Daughters and Sons to work Day, will be the keynote speaker. Please visit the website below to learn more about this event.
Website: www.womenswilderness.org &
www.girlswilderness.org
Webpage for Moving Mountains with Marie Wilson event:
www.womenswilderness.org/events.html
Phone: 303-938-9191
Impact on Education (http://www.impactoneducation.org)
Impact on Education focuses on increasing resources for public education, and specifically on teacher excellence, science and technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields; and "at-risk" students. Impact on Education is the only organization, other than the school district itself that serves all 28,000 students in the Boulder Valley School District (BVSD). Impact on Education programs help improve student achievement in STEM fields, prevent student drop-out, provide opportunities for students of low-income families, support creative classroom projects and honor selected individuals who have made an impact in our schools. We are enthusiastic advocates for strong societal support of public education.
Impact on Education
75 Manhattan Drive, Suite 205
Boulder CO 80303
(303) 524-3865
Children International (http://www.children.org)
Fresh Produce channels all of our donations for clothing to Children’s International, which focuses on disaster and humanitarian relief efforts in third world countries around the world. Over the years Fresh Produce is proud to have donated over 450,000 pieces of clothing to impoverished areas throughout the world.
Community Foundation serving Boulder County (http://www.commfound.org/)
Encouraging philanthropy and dedicated to improving the quality of life for the residents of Boulder County, The Community Foundation has given more than $14 million to qualified nonprofit organizations involving children, women, and families. Due to their expertise in these areas, Fresh Produce works directly with The Community Foundation when determining local grants.
Some past organizations we have helped include:
- YMCA and YWCA of Boulder County
- Intercambio de Communidadas
- Community Action Development Corporation
If you are a local Boulder County organization and would like to be considered for a grant from Fresh Produce, please contact The Community Foundation at the address and phone number below.
The Community Foundation
1123 Spruce St.
Boulder, CO 80302
303-442-0436 x107
Gretchen@commfound.org
Giving to the Victims of Hurricane Katrina
The devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina not only took its toll on the nation, but the employees of Fresh Produce as well. In the wake of this disaster, the employees of Fresh Produce formed a Katrina Fund, donating their own money to assist the hurricane victims. Fresh Produce then matched all employee donations, raising more than $16,000 to aid the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts of both the American Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity.