Shop 4% Friday on July 23rd to Support Skagit Gleaners

On the 4th Friday of every month, you shop and, together, we give! This year Skagit Valley Food Co-op has partnered with Skagit Community Foundation to make 4% Friday twice as nice with Double Donation Days! Skagit Community Foundation will be matching all of our 4% Friday giving for 2021.

Now, when you shop 4% Friday Community Shopping Days, your purchase will have twice the impact: on Friday, July 23rd, we're donating 4% of sales to Skagit Gleaners, and the Skagit Community Foundation will match our total to double the donation!

Skagit Gleaners is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization. Their purpose is to provide food, household merchandise, and clothing to frugal, waste-conscious, and working families. Skagit Gleaners does this by rescuing surplus food and product from local businesses, keeping such items out of overflowing landfills. Since COVID-19, they’ve rescued and redistributed roughly 150,000 pounds of food each month. Of that, they distributed nearly 65,000 pounds each month to local food banks.

How will your shopping trip help Skagit Gleaners?

4% Friday Funds will be used to offset the costs of commercial cold storage space. The amount of incoming surplus food from the community has tripled since COVID-19 began. As a result, Skagit Gleaners have had to invest in more freezer space to store food before dispersing it to their members and other like-minded organizations.