Tag: Walmart

Walmart Launches Fight Hunger. Spark Change. Early

Stuart Mitchell

Walmart highlighted their new COVID-19 campaign in a post by Julie Gehrki, Vice President, Philanthropy, Walmart.Org copied below: Over the last several weeks, Walmart and the Walmart Foundation have committed $25 million to supporting organizations on the frontlines in the fight against the novel coronavirus. It’s a position we’re proud to take. But we’ve also been humbled by the response from so many of our customers asking: How can we help? To answer that call, Walmart worked with Feeding America to launch Fight Hunger. Spark Change. (FHSC) online donations early.…

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Where It’s Going: Walmart’s $25 Million COVID-19 Commitment

Stuart Mitchell

Walmart and the Walmart Foundation announced a $25 million commitment on March 17 to support organizations on the frontlines responding to COVID-19. The money will be distributed in a series of grants, each furthering the capacity of organizations to help communities affected by the pandemic. The Walmart Foundation announced a $5 million grant to the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund, a program set up by the United Nations Foundation to support the World Health Organization (WHO) in the global effort to help countries prevent, detect and respond to the novel coronavirus.…

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Always® is Working with Walmart® and James Van Der Beek to Rally Support to Help #EndPeriodPoverty

Stuart Mitchell

This January, Always is working with James Van Der Beek (actor, writer, husband and devoted father of five) to continue their mission to #EndPeriodPoverty – so no girl misses out on the confidence-building activities she loves because of lack of access to period products. Last year, Always donated 500,000 pads. This year – with help from people across the country and in collaboration with America’s Promise Alliance – they want to triple that to reach 1.5 MILLION pads! Research has shown that nearly 1 in 5 girls in the U.S.…

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Walmart Launches Pollinator Garden Pilot in Three States

Stuart Mitchell

Walmart has planted 21 pollinator gardens at retail locations throughout Oregon, Washington and North Carolina. The gardens serve a dual purpose of adding to the beautification of the outdoor grounds at designated store properties and seeking to increase pollinators including bees and butterflies, which have suffered population declines in recent decades. To kick off this pilot project, the first garden was planted in April 2019 at a Walmart retail location in Garner, North Carolina. A garden has also been planted at Walmart’s global corporate headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. The remaining…

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In its Freshman Year, Live Better U Gets an A+ in Reducing Education Costs for Walmart Associates

Stuart Mitchell

With a year in the books, Live Better U is redefining what affordable college means for thousands of Walmart associates. Since August 2018, its 6,000-plus students have earned a total of $17.5 million in college credits while only paying a little over $500,000. The benefit has been so successful that Walmart and Guild Education announced in June that the program is expanding its degree programs and adding support for associates still in high school. Giving high schoolers a head start is important, because the first year of college can be…

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