Community Giving

Our Community Partners

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

• Intensive Family Counseling, Inc.
• Village Presbyterian Preschool Nutrition Program
• Hospital Hill Run
• Blue Valley North High School Environmental Club
• Helen K. Gold Run
• Bridging the Gap
• Arthritis Foundation
• Kansas City Express Mother's Day 5k
• Touched By Cancer Foundation

Ways We Give Back

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.  

Donations Event Requests

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.

All applications must be received in writing at least 6 weeks prior to event/catalog deadline. Phone inquires are discouraged and will be directed to apply in writing. Rarely do we give large contributions to any one organization, allowing us to donate to a wider range and greater number of non-profits.

Bag Donation Program

This program is exclusive to our stores in Colorado, New Mexico, and 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. 

Becoming a Community Partner

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 another 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.