In 2017, owners and shoppers at Weaver Street Market donated $260,295 for our local hunger-relief organizations! Of that amount, $207,533 was raised by owners and shoppers rounding up their purchases 450,910 times. One hundred percent of your donations purchase healthy food to feed food insecure kids and families. That’s more than 525,000 pounds of food for our hungry neighbors.
Your Donations Make a Difference:
- In 2017, PORCH Chapel Hill-Carrboro added 80 additional families to its Food for Families program. In 2018, PORCH Hillsborough will start a “Food for Families” program with 25 families.
- TABLE added 82 kids to its 2017 summer program, which now runs for 10 weeks instead of 7. Your donations covered the entire budget for TABLE’s Summer Backpack program and enabled the school-year backpack program to increase to 550 kids in September.
- We added a new Community Food Partner in 2017—Orange County Schools (OCS). We provided 40-pound boxes of food for 350 kids for the two-weeks of winter break in December, and plan to reach twice that amount for spring break.
- The food pantries at Orange Congregations in Mission (OCIM) and the Interfaith Council (IFC) had a weekly supply of fresh vegetables and fruit to offer their families. We hoped to do this for the winter months—your donations were so generous we provided fresh produce all year long!
2018 Round Up! Calendar
We’ll continue the Round Up! program throughout 2018, with the funds raised supporting the neighborhood organizations. Because food insecurity has the greatest repercussions on kids, we continue to focus heavily on the programs that feed kids.
January (continuing from 2017) |
Food pantries: IFC (Carrboro, Southern Village stores) and OCIM (Hillsborough store). |
February – April | “Food for Families” programs: PORCH Chapel Hill-Carrboro (Carrboro, Southern Village stores) and PORCH Hillsborough (Hillsborough store). |
May – October | Backpack programs for Kids: TABLE (Carrboro, Southern Village stores) and OCS (Hillsborough store). |
November – December | Food pantries: IFC (Carrboro, Southern Village stores) and OCIM (Hillsborough store). |
Your Round Up! Options
Owners and shoppers choose at the register which transactions they want to round up (or not). Owners can also choose to have their transactions “automatically” rounded up each time or to indicate that they do not wish to be asked if they’re rounding up. To select either of these options, simply tell a cashier or complete the Owner Update Form.