Walmart Foundation and Walmart Chile Announce USD $1 Million Social Investment Plan for the Valparaiso Region in Response to Deadly Wildfires

After devastating fires hit four municipalities in the Valparaiso region in early February, damaging more than 7,000 houses and affecting more than 4,000 people, the Walmart Foundation and Walmart Chile announced a USD $1 million social investment plan to help the victims. This plan includes donations and volunteer time to nonprofit organizations that are rehabilitating public spaces, restoring facilities for children, reforesting green areas and supporting entrepreneurs – especially women – in the region who have been economically impacted by the fires. Walmart Chile – the parent company of Lider,…

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Walmart Foundation Expands Efforts to Support Smallholder Farmers in India, Further Empowering Women

Expanding its commitment to improving farmer livelihoods in India, Walmart Foundation has announced a new five-year strategy that aims to reach 1 million smallholder farmers by 2028 with at least 50% women. The grants will be extended to non-profit organizations working in the areas of collectivization and farm aggregation with the aim of boosting farmer incomes across several states including Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. The Walmart Foundation grants will focus on enabling local grantees to better support capacity building for farmer producer organizations (FPOs),…

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Walmart Foundation funds cutting-edge food waste trials with WRAP

The Walmart Foundation has awarded nearly US$750,000 to WRAP, the UK’s leading sustainability charity delivering behaviour change interventions (BCIs), to develop new interventions to slash household food waste in the UK and Canada, in a partnership with the National Zero Waste Council in Canada. The UK-Canada partnership will focus on high-impact food waste behaviours and designing new interventions using WRAP’s long track record in behaviour change. Research is underway in both countries, with BCI prototypes to be piloted between March 2022 and 2023. Sarah Clayton, Head of Citizen Behaviour Change at…

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Walmart, Sam’s Club and the Walmart Foundation Announce Winter Weather Response Efforts to Help Those Affected by Recent Storms

With the catastrophic storms, power outages and water shortages affecting Texas, Tennessee, Louisiana and Mississippi, Walmart, Sam’s Club and the Walmart Foundation are committing up to $1 million in cash and in-kind product donations to help with response efforts. As part of the commitment, funds will support Feeding Texas’ emergency response efforts in Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, the Rio Grande Valley and other areas across the state impacted by winter weather. Food banks in these areas are working hard to set up critical distribution locations to connect those in…

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World Wildlife Fund Joins the Walmart Foundation, Cargill, McDonald’s to Launch Million-Acre Grazing Initiative to Help Restore Grasslands, Address Climate Change

Cross-industry collaboration is crucial to meeting the global demand for protein while also addressing the urgency of climate change and nature loss. Responding to this challenge, the Walmart Foundation, Cargill and McDonald’s are investing over $6 million in an initiative led by World Wildlife Fund that aims to make lasting improvements to the grasslands of the Northern Great Plains. The new program, known as the Ranch Systems and Viability Planning (RSVP) network, will support ranchers across the ecoregion—focusing primarily on Montana, Nebraska and South Dakota—with technical expertise, training and tools…

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