NEW ORLEANS – Whole Foods Market®, located at ReFresh Project, 300 N. Broad St., will hold a Community Giving Day Wednesday, August 5, 2015, and will donate 5 percent of the day’s net profits to Great Resources Whereyat (GRoW).
GRoW, a New Orleans Kids Partnership and Young Audiences of Louisiana collaborative program, is a coordinated system of free healthy lifestyle services for low-income youths from 8 to 18-years old.
Led by an inspiring partnership of 25 nonprofit youth organizations, GRoW offers classes in cooking, gardening, yoga, basketball, martial arts, biking, playground games and many other activities. Since the program began in May 2013, GRoW has provided more than 2,500 pounds of healthy meals and 300 hours of physical activity programming to 2,000 children in the Gentilly neighborhood.
“We have had an enormous response to the program so far,” says Jon Cosper, GRoW project director and director of Extended Learning for Young Audiences of Louisiana. “More families are looking for healthier things to do, and with support from businesses like Whole Foods Market, we will be able to meet that demand.”
GRoW Community Giving Day activities include:
• GRoW Information and E-Newsletter Sign-Up Table
7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
• GRoW Volunteers Help Bag Groceries
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
• Live Performance by Dave James
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Individuals, companies and families that want to support GRoW Community Giving Day can click here and pledge to buy their breakfast, lunch, dinner and/ or groceries that day at the Whole Foods Market. Those who sign up on the site and follow through on their pledge will receive special gifts and be entered to win a RAFFLE PRIZE at the end of the day.
GRoW’s managing partners are Young Audiences of Louisiana, Louisiana Public Health Institute, Daughters of Charity Services of New Orleans and Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Funding is provided by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation, the Institute for Mental Hygiene, the Greater New Orleans Foundation and Target, along with many individual donors and small businesses.
