Whole Foods Market to Help Grow Community Support for GROW Nebraska

Filed Under: All Posts, Guest Bloggers on December 7, 2009

What if buying milk, bread and eggs also could help your local non-profit? Now it can.

Whole Foods Market in Omaha, Neb., is showing its community support by donating 5% of net sales from all purchases on Tuesday, December 8, to GROW Nebraska. GROW staff will be in the store that day to answer questions and GROW members also associated with Whole Foods Market will be there offering products to sample. GROW Nebraska is thrilled for the opportunity.

“One of our goals is to get more Nebraska entrepreneurial products on grocery store shelves. This opportunity allows us to promote and provide awareness of those products. It also goes hand in hand with our Mark it to Market service funded through the Value-Added Agriculture Partnership Act grant from the Nebraska Department of Economic Development. This grant, which is administered by the Nebraska Rural Development Commission, helps small businesses and entrepreneurs get their UPC codes so they can sell products to companies, such as Whole Foods Market,” said GROW Nebraska CEO Janell Anderson Ehrke.

All you have to do is stop by Whole Foods Market, located at Dodge and Regency Parkway, on December 8 for your weekly grocery shopping to show your community support. Store hours are 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.

GROW Nebraska’s mission is to maximize the state’s entrepreneurial and small business spirit, create an economically viable and sustainable environment for entrepreneurs, and generate social awareness through promotion, marketing and education.