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Whole Planet, a project of Whole Foods Market Foundation, empowers entrepreneurs and smallholder farmers living in poverty to create or expand their own small businesses. Our mission is poverty alleviation through microcredit.

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Responsible Production & Consumption

Holiday Purchases Power Her Potential: Gifts that Give Part I
During the month of December, these brands are donating money for every item sold at Whole Foods Markets to Whole Planet Foundation.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Whole Planet Foundation Partners Raise $206,500 for World’s Poorest Entrepreneurs
Whole Planet Foundation’s annual Poverty Is Unnecessary Project provides opportunity for the world’s poorest people – mostly women – to take a microcredit loan and create or expand a home-based business for the opportunity to lift themselves and their family members out of poverty through their own hard work and creativity. Whole Planet Foundation supports impoverished entrepreneurs through microfinance partners in the United States and 74 other countries around the world.

Diversity & Inclusion

The Republic of Tea is Transforming Teatime Into a Positive Force for Good
Since 2012, The Republic of Tea has donated $148,737 to Whole Planet Foundation to fund 2,093 microloans around the globe. This year, they launched their own program to amplify this work. Working with the international nonprofit, the Ethical Tea Partnership, and a local nonprofit, the PALM Foundation, The Republic of Tea has crafted a program in Sri Lanka focused on nutrition, hygiene, and financial literacy, with the goal of elevating thousands of women and their families. Together they are starting to bring prosperity to women and their families, helping transform teatime into a more positive force for good.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

125 Advocates Join the Poverty Is Unnecessary Project
Poverty Is Unnecessary Fund members are donating $25,000 each to alleviate global poverty; the Poverty Is Unnecessary Benefit & Live Auction will celebrate the impact of this work by Whole Planet Foundation and its supporters.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Pulse Centers: Powering Her Potential with Whole Planet Foundation
Whole Planet Foundation is proud to partner with Pulse Centers, the Gold Sponsor of its Annual Benefit & Auction taking place on October 25, 2018. This party with a purpose celebrates the foundation’s global impact in 74 countries and aims to motivate more advocates to join 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. In 2005, Whole Foods Market® launched Whole Planet Foundation, its non-profit dedicated to global poverty alleviation in communities around the world where the company sources products.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Farming + Finance for a Path out of Poverty
Through a new project WPF supports in Honduras, we will get to see firsthand if the two-pronged approach of providing both agricultural and financial assistance will have a synergistic, lasting positive effect on the alleviation of poverty.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

INFOGRAPHIC | Whole Planet Foundation and Partners Making an Impact on Global Poverty
Every quarter Whole Planet Foundation aggregates field metrics from our microfinance partners who are disbursing and collecting microcredit loans to people living in poverty.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Vital Farms: Making Lasting Change by Supporting Small Businesses
Back in 2007, when Matt and Catherine O’Hayer started pasture-raising hens, their thoughts were never just on the birds in their care, but in using whatever means at their disposal to affect lasting change. Directly, that meant challenging long-held assumptions in the food business – that sustainable could not mean scalable, and vice versa. That challenged Matt to pioneer an entirely new on-shelf category in the egg set – pasture-raised – and disrupt an industry that had become moribund and commoditized.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Microfinance vs. Informal Finance: A Fair Comparison?
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