More About: 'Food-charities'
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 ...
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. ...