4% Friday October-December 2023

Every time you shop at the Co-op, you help support our local economy and community. 4% Friday is another easy way to do your weekly shopping and contribute to organizations you care about. You shop, and together we give 4% of the Co-op's sales on the 4th Friday of each month to a non-profit community organization.

Underground Ministries

October 27

Underground Ministries provides community support, reentry accompaniment, and a growing list of services including employment, driver’s license fees and training, housing, assistance in leaving gangs, addiction treatment, and familial reconciliation. Underground Ministries serves men and women coming up from the underground of gang life, incarceration, trauma, and addiction in Skagit Valley.

Funds from 4% Friday will be used to support the Underground Ministries community and families. This includes settling those newly released from incarceration with adequate housing, removing fees and holds on driver’s licenses, purchasing groceries and hygiene products, and providing tools for work upon exit from gangs, abusive relationships, and other areas of need in the Skagit Valley.

New Earth Recovery

November 17

New Earth Recovery offers safe, high-accountability, and substance-free housing for women and men who want to maintain their sobriety and find healing from wounds that have contributed to cycles of addiction. New Earth Recovery offers a long-term, holistic, structured residential recovery program, providing close staff accompaniment, life skills, a new community, therapeutic gardening activities, and a relapse prevention process, where residents explore the root of their addiction and experience deep emotional healing.

IRIS - Immigrant Resources & Immediate Support

December 22

The Mission of IRIS is to connect immigrants with existing resources in the community and provide immediate assistance to those experiencing a temporary period of crisis. The immediate assistance provided by IRIS includes basic clothing and shoes, laundry detergent, toilet paper, hygiene supplies and groceries, mattresses, warm winter coats, supplies for new babies, and rental subsidies to help with direct deposits for secure living situations. IRIS prioritizes serving those who are not eligible for other community resources such as food stamps or health insurance.

100% of the funds from 4% Friday will be used for direct support to IRIS’ recipients. Some examples include partial or full rental payments for those unable to pay due to crisis or potential eviction, shopping trips at Goodwill to purchase basic needs, and shopping trips to grocery stores to purchase culturally appropriate food and hygiene items.