Community Giving

At Whole Foods Market, we are active participants in our community. We are extremely proud of our community involvement and the relationships that we continue to make each month! We strive to make a difference.

We are committed to supporting the local community as well as national organizations. The following organizations are non-profits that we have partnered with:

• Green Works in Kansas City
• Cristo Rey Kansas City
• Longnan Magnet School
• Heart of America Indian Center
• Maincor
• Kansas City, KS Public Library
• Westport High School
• Art Institute of Kansas City

Please read through the following materials carefully in order to decide which program best suits your organization's needs and offers the best chance of being awarded a donation.

For most organizations a smaller Donation Request based on a specific event is a more likely to be approved and offers considerable value to the organization.

• Whole Foods Market donates to a specific event that the organization plans.
• We prefer to donate product or gift cards and rarely donate cash. The majority of our products will be our private label products.

This program is exclusive to our stores in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Kansas/Kansas City Metro area and was specifically created to assist our local schools! At checkout, if customers bring in their own bags, they can either take 10 cents off their bill or give 10 cents to a local school. This is an excellent opportunity for a school to partner with Whole Foods Market to raise money for environmental education programs within your school.

A Community Partner is a nonprofit organization that we feel matches our Core Values and with whom we want to build an ongoing, mutually beneficial relationship. We choose our Community Partners as carefully as we choose our vendors and products for our stores. Organizations applying for a Community Day should meet all goals of the program. In general we choose organizations that are in the greatest need, have a focused impact on the most individuals or selected causes, and represent the Core Values of Whole Foods Market. All organizations must have nonprofit status (501c3) and focus their efforts here in the Kansas City Metro area.

Our Community 5% Days are one meaningful way we give back to our community. On designated days throughout the year a total of 5% of the day's net sales are donated to local non-profit organizations. Customers help support our selected organizations just by shopping on these 5% Days.