Food Charities
Give Back, But Better: 10 Donation Ideas for Community Fridges & Food Pantries
Our photo team at Thrive Market regularly takes beautiful photos of foods and self-care products, and when those shoots are over, we never want anything to go to waste. Instead of throwing away the unused, unopened products we photograph for the website, the team gathers these items and takes them to a community fridge in ...
Meet Cody, A Thrive Gives Member Healing From A Traumatic Brain Injury
If you are in financial need—including EBT cardholders, families, students, teachers, veterans, nurses, and first responders—you qualify for a free one-year membership through Thrive Gives. With it, you’ll get access to member-only benefits from Thrive Market. Apply here. At Thrive Market, we believe that healthy living should be a right, not a privilege—which is why ...
Here’s How Our Community Helped Those Affected By the Los Angeles Wildfires
Thrive Market is proud to call Los Angeles our home, and we were devastated for our colleagues, friends, and neighbors impacted by the unimaginable fires that overtook the city last month. Thanks to the generosity of our members and partners, we’ve been able to provide meaningful relief to those affected. Together, here’s how we helped: ...
Helping the Williams Family of Altadena Rebuild After the L.A. Wildfires
In the wake of the devastating wildfires that overtook our hometown of Los Angeles last week, we mobilized more quickly than we ever have before to provide some relief to our neighbors in need. Thanks to our members’ generous donations at checkout, we were able to disperse funds across disaster relief organizations and directly to ...
Meet the 10 Deserving Winners of Our 2024 Share the Health Campaign
There’s nothing better than a holiday tradition that helps to bring everyone together. At Thrive Market, our favorite holiday tradition is our Share the Health initiative, which enables us to help ease the financial burden of grocery shopping for the members of our community just in time for the holiday season. Back in October, we ...
We Surprised a Deserving Teacher With $1,000 in Groceries for Teacher Appreciation Week
Teachers do it all: For their students, they are educators, listening ears, support systems, and mentors. They build lesson plans, but they also wipe noses, keep tabs on kids’ social and emotional wellbeing, and often make sure that each kid has healthy, nutritious food throughout the day. This Teacher Appreciation Week, we decided to do ...
FoodCorps & Thrive Market: Helping Kids Access Food Education & Nourishing School Meals
Food insecurity and lack of access is seldom visible quite as clearly as it is in public schools. While some students bring nourishing, nutritious lunches from home, many students — particularly those in low-income areas — face disproportionate barriers when it comes to accessing healthy foods. FoodCorps understands that children need nutritious food in order ...
How Your Donations Help Support Our Work Toward Food Equality for All
If you frequently shop with Thrive Market, you’re likely used to seeing the “donate at checkout” prompt when you place your order. This unique feature is an important part of our mission: It enables us to activate our community to raise funds that help support those in need. When you donate to a cause you ...
Here’s How You Helped Support Our Mission in 2023
From day one, Thrive Market has been a mission-driven company. It’s always been a part of our business to make healthy living affordable and accessible to all, from providing healthy groceries to those who need them most to doing our part to help reverse the effects of climate change. In 2023, we achieved some long-awaited ...
Meet Uele, An Aspiring Artist and Thrive Gives Member
If you are in financial need—including families, students, teachers, veterans, nurses, and first responders—you qualify for a free one-year membership through Thrive Gives. With it, you’ll get access to member-only benefits from Thrive Market. Apply here. When we visited Uele Siebert in Tennessee, what moved us immediately was her spirit. In a home covered with ...
Meet Yoshi, A Busy Medical Student and Thrive Gives Member
If you are in financial need—including families, students, teachers, veterans, nurses, and first responders—you qualify for a free one-year membership through Thrive Gives. With it, you’ll get access to member-only benefits from Thrive Market. Apply here. Not many things come easy for a medical student. Add up the hours spent attending lectures, studying for exams, ...
The People Behind ProjectQ, A Community Center & Food Pantry for LA’s LGBTQIA+ Youth
Many think of a haircut as a simple (maybe even slightly annoying) errand, but the founders of ProjectQ know that for some people, a haircut represents much more. The Los Angeles nonprofit organization gives gender-affirming haircuts and other services to the area’s LGBTQIA+ youth, many of whom are food and housing insecure. Founder and Executive ...
Meet a FoodCorps Service Member Empowering a New Generation of Environmental Stewards
Bridgette Byrd grew up in the kitchen. Her father, a self-taught professional chef, did the cooking at home, and most nights Byrd was right there beside him, observing his skilled use of tools and expert food preparation techniques. But more than anything, “I loved being able to look at his passion for the work that ...
We’ve Raised $10 Million for Food Equality—Thanks to You
At Thrive Market, it’s always been part of our mission to fight food inequality. We believe that health and wellness shouldn’t be a privilege; rather, it’s everyone’s right to be able to provide healthy, affordable groceries to their families. Unfortunately, that’s not the case for many Americans, which is why in 2020 we made a ...
How NuttZo Went from Making Better Nut Butter to Helping Kids in Need
In 2002, Danielle Dietz-LiVolsi adopted the first of her two sons from Ukraine. He was a picky eater, struggled with eating solid foods, and was having a hard time reaching the weight of a healthy 3-year-old. When she realized he wasn’t fond of meat, Dietz-LiVolsi became interested in nut butter as an alternative protein source. ...
How FoodCycle LA and Thrive Market are Feeding People, Not Landfills
More than 100 billion pounds of food is wasted in the United States every year. It ends up in landfills, where it’s a major contributor to climate change. Meanwhile, 45 million people in the U.S.—particularly single parents and the BIPOC community—lack access to healthy food. What if you could begin to solve both problems at ...
Healthy Living For All: Our $10M Pledge to End Food Inequality
Fast food chains abound on the military base in the Mojave Desert where My lives with her husband and twin toddlers, but grocery stores that stock healthy items are hours away. Susan struggles to afford the groceries she needs on just $170 of government assistance per month. For Rachael, finding the gluten-free products that are ...
What One Homeschooling Mama of 5 Puts in Her Thrive Market Box
The Thrive Gives program is one of the initiatives we’re most proud of at Thrive Market because it helps us deliver on our mission to make healthy living easy and affordable for every American family. New to Thrive Gives? It’s simple: For every paid member who joins Thrive Market, we provide a free membership to ...
Learn Why This Thrive Gives Veteran Is So Grateful for His Thrive Market Membership
U.S. Army veteran Mike McGinnis credits the military with teaching him valuable skills that have served him well in the many roles he’s had throughout his life. He’s very grateful for his Thrive Market membership, which saved him time and money during a particularly difficult time.
This Thrive Gives Veteran Appreciates Having Healthy Options Wherever He’s Stationed
Today we’re highlighting Chris Garibay’s story. As a veteran and Thrive Gives member, Garibay followed in his father’s footsteps by serving in the military. Being able to access his favorite healthy products—regardless of where he’s stationed in the States—is crucial to the health of his family.
We’re Teaming Up With FoodCorps to Teach Kids About Healthy Food
Healthy eating habits have a profound impact on quality of life, and for growing kids, they’re even more important. Despite this, a generation of kids from disproportionately low-income areas face significant barriers to learning about and accessing healthy food. In the U.S., one in three children is likely to develop type-2 diabetes; for black and ...
Meet the Thrives Gives Member Finishing Grad School and Helping Her Family Eat Healthier
The Thrive Gives program is one of the initiatives we’re most proud of at Thrive Market, because it helps us deliver on our mission to make healthy living easy and affordable for every American family. New to Thrive Gives? It’s simple: For every paid member who joins Thrive Market, we provide a free membership for ...
Thrive Gives Member Spotlight: Hannah & Mary
The Thrive Gives program is one of the things we’re most proud of at Thrive Market, because it helps us deliver on our mission to make healthy living easy and affordable for every American family. New to Thrive Gives? It’s simple: For every paid member who joins Thrive Market, we provide a free membership for ...
All the Ways Thrive Market Members Have Made an Impact in 2019
In the past six months, Thrive Market has donated thousands of free memberships to families in need, and nearly $200,000 in groceries and financial support to partner organizations. And it’s all because of you! Our business model gives one free membership for every paid membership, and through a variety of donate-at-checkout campaigns, members have been ...