Our annual Hope for the Holidays campaign raised $13,397.75!
What Is Hope for the Holidays?
Since 1998, Hope for the Holidays has paired fund-raising and gift giving during December: we make a donation each time you buy a Hope for the Holidays product. We choose some of our favorite products, like local poinsettias and pecans and fair trade chocolate bars.
The funds raised add to our Cooperative Community Fund, a sustainable endowment fund. Each year, a committee awards grants that are paid from the interest that the fund generates. The grants go to local nonprofits working on access to healthy food. Last year’s grants helped fund an educational program and field trips for food relief recipients, a weigh station for one of our food pantries, and improvements at a school garden and two community gardens.
How Did We Do?
This holiday season, we sold
- 432 local poinsettias,
- 488 jars of Two Chicks pepper jelly,
- 605 bags of Peacestachios,
- 863 pounds of NC pecans,
- 1016 bottles of Riojana wine,
- 1453 loaves of WSM stollen,
- 1547 WSM quick breads,
- 5589 fair trade Equal Exchange chocolate bars,
- 5719 boxes of Chapel Hill and Griff’s toffee,
- and more!
With this addition, the CCF has over $224,000 generating interest to fund projects in our community! Thanks for your support!