Donations...
donations... donations...
As part of
Honest Weight Food Coop’s commitment to giving back to the community,
we are
pleased to have had the opportunity to assist many nonprofit
organizations,
institutions and charities this past year. Honest Weight follows a
Statement of
Conscience in which we are committed to donating 5% of our net profits
to local
nonprofit organizations. We are committed to helping our community
learn more
about growing, choosing, preparing and using natural food and in turn
we
support, embrace and celebrate the diversity of our community, as can
be seen
in the distribution of our donations.Our donations made between June 1
and
December 31, 2005 included food, plants, gift certificates, food/gift
baskets
and Thanksgiving/holiday food and gifts.
Our
food donations included fruit platters, turkeys, fruit bars, peanut
butter,
water, fresh fruit, supplements, wine-and-cheese trays, pumpkins and
pumpkin
pie supplies. Recipients of our donations included the following
non-profit
organizations: National Kidney Foundation, Mountain Road
School,
Homeless Action Committee,
Community Region Arts Cooperative, Image Quilt Productions, Peace
Pagoda Peace
Walk, Albany
Skills Share, Albany
Kripalu Yoga Center,
Bethleham
Neighbors for Peace, Discard Avant Garb Show, Albany Damien
Center,
Jewish Community Center,
Hands on Capitalland (HOC), Brunswick
Smart Growth Inc., St. Catherine’s Marillac Shelter, Voorheesville
United
Methodist Youth Fellowship, Planned Parenthood, Northeast Organic
Farming
Association of New York and the
Albany Public
Library’s grand opening of the Bookmobile.
Beautiful gift baskets and generous
gift certificates were donated to a large number of organizations,
often to
benefit various fundraising events they were sponsoring. The following
organizations were among those receiving these items: Head Start,
Albany Boys
and Girls Club, Scotia Glenville Children’s Museum, Regional Food Bank
of NENY,
North Country SPCA, Albany Friends Meeting Children’s Peace Week,
Albany
Symphony Orchestra, Bethesda
House, Veterans for Peace “A Call to Conscience,” CRAAB, Five Rivers
Environmental Center Fall Fest, Stride Masquerade Ball, Community Gardens
of Capital District, Cherry Hill Historic Society, Bethleham High
School Lab School,
Hospitality
House, WMHT 2006 Great TV Auction and Holiday Auction, Grand Sheet Community
Arts Center, Troy Farmers Market,
United for Katrina/Trinity Institution, Grafton
Lakes State Park Winter
Fest, Hamilton Hills
Arts Center,
Junior League of Albany,
Whiskers Animal Benevolent League and the Nuevo Mundo Benefit for the
Lopez-Gomez
family.
In the spirit of the holiday season, Thanksgiving and holiday food and
gifts were donated to Albany County Opportunity Inc., Citizens
Environment and
Coalition, Albany
Boys and Girls Club and the NY State Office of the Aging.
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