Profits for the Planet
Yogurt on a mission
Back in 1993 we started Profits for the Planet (PFP) as a way to further our environmental mission. We could not dream back then that 20 years later we would have gifted $15 million in support of hundreds of organizations that care for the earth.
Plenty of companies make donations, but PFP is especially interwoven with our company mission to promote healthy food, healthy people, healthy business and a healthy planet. We view our giving as a way to help advance all aspects of our mission and thus our funding priorities have fallen into 4 principal categories:
- Family farming
- Slowing or reversing climate change
- Organic agriculture and reduction of toxins in agriculture and the food supply
- Avoiding adverse health impacts from environmental and agricultural practices
In 2013 we've decided to concentrate our funding on a few critically important and urgent projects, which we've listed below. Several of these are long-term multi-year commitments. Because of this, we aren't accepting any additional PFP applications at this time. This summer we will review our progress with these projects and we will make an announcement on this page if additional 2013 funding may become available.
Thanks for your interest.
2012 PFP donation recipients
- Ceres, Inc.
- 4-H Foundation of NH
- Ag Innovations Network -Sustainable Food Lab
- American Farmland Trust
- Beyond Pesticides
- Blue Moon Evolution
- Climate Counts
- Earth University Foundation
- Food Forward
- FoodCorps Inc
- Granite State Dairy Promotion
- Greener Cow Project
- Health and Evironmental Nutrition Group
- Heifer International
- Hillsborough County Conservation District
- Kiwi Magazine- Take your parents to lunch day
- Yes on 37 - Label Genetically Engineered Foods 2012
- Leonardo Academy Sustainable Agriculture Standard
- Life is Good Foundation
- Live Free or Die Alliance
- Maine Organic Milling
- Manchester Community College Community Garden
- Miles Smith Farm
- Missouri Organic Association
- MOFGA - Maine Organic Farmer and Growers Association
- MOSES
- Mountain Association for Community Economic Development
- National Farm to School Network/Tides Center
- National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
- National Young Farmer's Coalition
- Native Energy
- New England Farmers Union
- New Hampshire Public Radio
- NOFA CT
- NOFA Interstate Council
- NOFA MA & The Natural Farmer
- NOFA NH
- NOFA VT
- The Northern Forest Center
- Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association
- Organic Trade Association
- Organic Valley Kickapoo Country Fair
- Organic Voices Just Label It Campaign
- Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture
- Pesticide Action Network
- RecycleRewards Inc.
- Preserve
- Rodale Institute
- Sebasticook Regional Land Trust
- Strolling of the Heifers
- Teich Garden Systems, LLC
- The Educational Farm at Joppa Hill
- The Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group
- The Organic & NonGMO Report
- The Organic Center
- The Organic Farming and Research Foundation
- The Rural Advancement Foundation International USA
- The Vermont Scholarship Fund
- The Xerces Society
- Tuberville, Inc.
- Turtle Ridge Foundation
- University of Arkansas Sustainability Consortium
- Vermont Dairy Herd Improvement Association
- Washington State University
- Wholesome Wave
2013 PFP donation recipients
- Climate Counts
- Washington State University
- The Organic Center
- Organic Trade Association
- Organic Voices - Just Label It Campaign
- New Hampshire Public Radio
- Ag Innovations Network -Sustainable Food Lab
- The Vermont Scholarship Fund
- UNH Organic Dairy
- Wholesome Wave
