PFP making a difference
In 2009, through our Profits for the Planet program (PFP), we donated more than $2 million to environmental efforts across the country.
List of 2009 PFP Recipients
- Climate Counts (Manchester, NH) - support of their collaborative effort to bring consumers and companies together in the fight against global climate change
- Native Energy (Charlotte, VT) - to offset Stonyfield's carbon emissions
- Squam Lakes Association (Holderness, NH) - general sponsorship to help support conservation of Squam Lakes region
- New Hampshire Public Radio (Concord, NH) - annual sponsorship of The Environmental Desk
- Terracycle (Trenton, NJ) - support for their packaging, recycling and education efforts
- Turtle Ridge Foundation (Sugar Hill, NH) - support for their environmental initiatives and youth athletic opportunities
- University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH) - sponsorship of the New England Carbon Challenge
- Earth University (Atlanta, GA) - sponsorship of a scholarship beneficiary to become a community leader in the field of agricultural sciences and the rational use of natural resources, and in the interest of contributing to sustainable development
- New Hampshire Sustainable Energy Association (Concord, NH) - sponsorship of their annual Home Energy Conference
- American Farmland Trust (Washington, DC) - support for their three priority national initiatives: Growing Local, Agriculture & Environment and Farmland Protection
- Western Foothills Land Trust (Norway, ME) - support for the Alan Day Community Agriculture Project
- Cooperative Development Institute (South Deerfield, MA) - support for Maine Organic Milling, an organic feed cooperative to help organic family farmers stabilize their feed costs
- The Vermont Scholarship Fund (Winooski, VT) - annual sponsorship for the children of St. Alban's Cooperative Creamery members
- Will Steger Foundation (Minneapolis, MN) - support for Expedition Copenhagen: a Midwest youth delegation to the international climate negotiations at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen
- University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI) - annual support for the Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute
- New Hampshire Energy and Climate Collaborative (Concord, NH) - general support for New Hampshire's energy, environmental, and economic development future, with a specific focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Bow High School (Bow, NH) - support to help local students attend the Zealand Consensus: a student environmental summit leading up to UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen
- Kansas Land Trust (Lawrence, KS) - support to improve efficiency and effectiveness in protecting conservation easements
- Youth Venture, Inc. (Concord, NH) - sponsorship of their "Dinner on the Lawn" event at the State House
- Slow Money (Brookline, MA) - sponsorship of their Inaugural National Gathering
- Sustainable Harvest International (Surry, ME) - support to provide farming families in Central America with the training and tools to overcome poverty while successfully adopting sustainable practices
- SHFT (Los Angeles, CA) - sponsorship of their efforts to help bands green their activities and spreading the word of the importance of those activities via online webisodes
- Reverb (Portland, ME) - support of education and engagement of musicians and their fans to take action toward a more sustainable future
- PCC Farmland Trust (Seattle, WA) - support of their Future Farm Fund, created to purchase conservation easements on local farmland and restrict development on the land
- Vermont Grass Farmers Association (Burlington, VT) - general support and sponsorship of their annual Vermont Grazing & Livestock Conference
- Organic Farming Research Foundation (Santa Cruz, CA) - sponsorship of their annual "Meet & Greet"Organic Benefit Luncheon
- University of Michigan's Ross School of Business - Multidisciplinary Action Program (Ann Arbor, MI) - support for a project to research the viability of a working organic education farm
- Nashua Regional Planning Commission (Merrimack, NH) - support for the New Hampshire Capitol Corridor Rail Project
- CERES (Boston, MA) - support of Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy (BICEP) project
- Charity:Water (New York, NY) - general support to help bring clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations
- Ecological Farming Association (Watsonville, CA) - annual sponsorship to help support education on ecological farming
- Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility (Portland, OR) - support of the "Campaign For Safe Food" program
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (Concord, NH) - to support efforts to address reproductive health threats posed by environmental toxins
- The Organic Center (Boulder, CO) - general support through Bid with Your Lid program
- Center for Biological Diversity (Tucson, AZ) - general support through Bid with Your Lid program
- Earth Island Institute (Berkeley, CA) - general support for the Energy Action Coalition through Bid with Your Lid program
- Northeast Organic Farming Association - Vermont Chapter (Richmond, VT) - sponsorship of their annual Winter Conference and support for on-farm workshop series
- Northeast Organic Farming Association - New Hampshire Chapter (Concord, NH) - sponsorship of their annual Winter Conference
- Northeast Organic Farming Association - New York Chapter (Cobleskill, NY) - support of their quarterly newsletter
- Northeast Organic Farming Association - Connecticut Chapter (Stevenson, CT) - annual sponsorship and sponsorship of Taste! Organic Connecticut Event
- Northeast Organic Farming Association - Massachusetts Chapter (Barre, MA) - annual sponsorship and support for The Natural Farmer publication
- Organic Trade Association (Greenfield, MA) - general support of organic education
- Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (Spring Valley, WI) - support for the initiatives of the "MOSES Help Wanted: Organic Farmers" program
- Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (Millheim, PA) - sponsorship of the 2009 Farming for the Future Conference
- University of California Santa Cruz Foundation (Santa Cruz, CA) - support for their Grow a Farmer campaign and sponsorship of their Annual Harvest Festival
- New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (Concord, NH) - support for their Adopt-A-Lake Program
- Maine's Own Organic Milk Company (Salisbury Cove, ME) - support of their efforts to sustain Maine's organic dairy farms and preserve Maine farm land
- National Audubon Society (New York, NY) - general support
- Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (Unity, ME) - support for the Common Ground Country Fair
- Whole Foods Market (Austin, TX) - co-sponsorship of the Responsible Packaging Solutions Forum in Boston, MA
- Preserve (Waltham, MA) - sponsorship of the Gimme 5 program (collection of #5 plastic cups at Whole Foods stores; cups are recycled to create new products)
