Community Giving
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.
Online Donation Application Form
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 Days are another meaningful way we give back to our community. On designated days throughout the year a portion of the day’s net sales are donated to local non-profit organizations. Customers help support our selected organizations just by shopping on these Days.
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:
- Village Presbyterian Preschool Nutrition Program
- Hospital Hill RunBlue
- Valley North High School Environmental Club
- Bridging the Gap
- Arthritis FoundationKansas City Express Mother’s Day 5k
- Touched By Cancer Foundation
- Helen Gold Run
Humane Society
Parenting Special Needs Children
Valley Park Elementary
American Heart Association
KKFI
Bike for the Brain
Church of the Resurrection
Cultural Center of the Midwest
Cleveland College
Congregation Beth Shalom
Johnson County Public Library
Hope Unlimited
Oxford Middle School
Spofford
Southwest Blvd Family Health Care
United Prayer Movement
Nativity Parish School
Roxy David Drutsch Foundation
Jewish Community Center
Young Survival Coalition
Girl Scouts
JoCo Stop underage drinking project
Gentiva
March of Dimes
United Way
Temple Congregation B’nai Jehudah
Ozanam
Ottawa University
Green Works of KC
KAI-RID
Bridging the Gap
PE 4 Life
Leawood Elementary
Menorah Hospital
Kansas lyme fighters
Blue Valley North High School
Blue Valley School District
Children’s Mercy Hospital
Alpha Delta Kappa
Braden’s Race for Life
Blue Valley West High School
Avila University
Friends of infant toddlers of joco
Regency place
Jared Coones memorial foundation
Leukemia & lymphoma Society
Heatherstone School
Girls on the Run
Children’s international
Indian Valley elementary
Ronald McDonald house
Steve and Dennis Bane Foundation
Rushton Elementary
Saint Thomas Episcopal Church
Mid America Nazarene University
Camelot Academy
TLC for children and families
Kessler Society
First Baptist Church
KC Christian School Society
Make a Wish Foundation
Blue Valley Special Olympics
Marion Hope Center
K U Eco hawks – Bag donation
Valley Park Elementary- Bag Donation
