2012 Be the Change Partners
| January | Furniture Bank | furniturebankatlanta.org |
| February | Lives IN Transition | livesintransition.org |
| March | LLF | yourlight.weebly.com |
| April | WRFG Radio | wrfg.org |
| May | Lake Claire Land Trust | lcclt.org |
| June | African community Centers | unity4power.net |
| July | NGAC | ngartscenter.org |
| August | Next Steps | nextstepsyep.org |
| September | Living Relative | … |
| October | Lives In Transition/NBMHN | nbmhn.net |
| November | Grand Care | … |
| December | Dekalb PTA | dekalb.k12.ga.us/public/pta |
What is Be The Change Program?
Sevananda Natural Foods Market’s Be The Change Program is our contribution to a healthier Atlanta. Each time you go through the register at Sevananda, you have the opportunity to contribute to a local non-profit by either donating a specific dollar amount or rounding your purchase up to the nearest dollar. By donating your spare change, you are contributing to a better Atlanta.
How does it work?
A committee composed of members of our co-op select twelve community nonprofit organizations from those who apply each year. These twelve organizations are assigned one month each in the upcoming calendar year. During the assigned month, shoppers at Sevananda contribute to the organization at the register. BTC Partners also receive 1% of Sevananda sales on the fourth Saturday of their partnership month.
How does the Be The Change Program fulfill Sevananda Natural Food Market’s mission?
It enables Sevananda to empower the community through a financial donation to improve its health and wellbeing.
Be The Change Program History:
Be The Change Program began as the Community Change is a program started by Sevananda Natural Foods Market in 1997 in order to make contributions to locally based non-profit organizations. Since 2005, Sevananda Natural Foods Market has raised a total of approximately $5000 for the Be The Change Program.
Samiyyah Allah, a member of the Sevananda kitchen staff has been diagnosed with cancer. She had surgery on Thursday, May 3rd; and is at home recovering. Because of the extensive treatments, and mounting medical expenses associated with her recovery, Samiyyah is also facing financial challenges and needs our support. Sevananda has set-up a Special Contribution Fund through BOND Community Federal Credit Union so that interested individuals can make contributions to help defray the costs of her medical treatments going forward.
In addition to making a contribution at Bond Credit Union, if an individual has a PayPal account, they may contribute by sending a contribution via PayPal to S.AllahFund@gmail.com. We appreciate your support of our co-worker, friend, and family member at this critical time in her life.
