4% Friday

You Shop, We Give 4%

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.

Skagit Gleaners

Skagit Gleaners’ 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 products from local businesses, keeping such items out of overflowing landfills. Skagit Gleaners’ mission is to foster a community of sustainability and stewardship to diverse, working families through a community-driven model while reducing food waste in the community.

Skagit Gleaners will use funds from 4% Friday to purchase more culturally appropriate fresh produce from local Mexican-Indigenous farm owners during high harvest months, which is when Skagit Gleaners’ sees a concentration of seasonal farmworkers using its services. These funds will further vitalize migrant-owned businesses while providing equitable access to food for the migrant community.

Community to Community Development

Community to Community (C2C) partners with farm workers to develop cross-cultural awareness, and restore justice to food, land, and cultural practices. C2C strives to develop projects that come from and are led by the folks from communities that need to affect change for improving the lives of their families and future generations. C2C works to identify common goals and actions among people from marginalized communities and those that believe in sustainability with social justice as a way of life.

4% Friday funds will be used to cover the costs of two interactive workshops for farmworker women and their children. The workshops will highlight the importance of healthy food and disease prevention, and will include a hands-on collective cooking session of a full meal with culturally appropriate foods using local and organic ingredients to further promote healthy cooking methods.

MVPD Homeless Outreach

The Mount Vernon Police Department’s Integrated Outreach services focus on providing outreach and aid to the Skagit Valley homeless population. The program is now expanding services which will allow MVPD to reach more people and provide more comprehensive, layered assistance. The goal is the provide housing, food, healthcare, treatment, and all the other things that help people establish stability in their lives.

Funds from 4% Friday will be used for incidentals – food, temporary housing, medical expenses, transportation to treatment, prescriptions, and costs involved in replacing important paperwork.