Whole Foods’ Community Giving Day Will
Enable St. John’s Strategic Partner to Fund Low-Income
Entrepreneurs
June 29, 2009
Grameen America, a non-profit microfinance organization dedicated
to the eradication of poverty, teamed up with Whole Foods Market on
June 24 for a “Community Giving Day.” Five percent of net sales at
the retail grocer’s five Manhattan locations on that day will be
donated to support low-income entrepreneurs in New York City.
Grameen America provides loans, credit establishment, savings
programs and other financial services to entrepreneurs, especially
women. In April 2009, Grameen and St. John’s University joined
together to forge a strategic partnership to develop and implement
practical, measurable solutions to poverty.
On June 24, Malessa Rodrigues, one of five St. John’s student
interns working at Grameen, was present at Whole Foods in TriBeCa,
where she distributed Grameen literature, informed shoppers about
the organization’s mission and answered questions about the effort
and how they can help. Other members of the Grameen team did the
same at the store’s Bowery, Chelsea, Union Square and Columbus
Circle locations.
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