Support Our October Community Partner: HCCF
added 08/27/08
The Hanover Cooperative Community Fund is one of the many ways that our Co-op contributes to the common good of the Upper Valley, but it can’t work without you.
October is National Co-op Month, and each year one of the ways we honor it is to feature the Hanover Cooperative Community Fund as our October Community Partner.
Giving back to the community is an integral part of our Co-op’s philosophy and practice of the triple bottom lines.
HCCF is a non-profit organization separate from the Co-op itself. Its purpose is to provide stable funding for end-of-year charitable donations. HCCF uses the interest earned from its endowment to benefit Upper Valley non-profit organizations.
In October 2007, the HCCF’s endowment reached $250,000, meeting the five-year goal set in 2002. HCCF Committee Chairman Bob Hayes promptly announced an updated goal of an additional $300,000 to be raised by the end of 2012! In addition to being the October Community Partner of the Month, the HCCF receives ten percent of donations given to our Community Partner program every month.
How You Can Help:
- Make a cash contribution to HCCF at the registers when you shop at the Co-op Food Stores or Service Center during October.
- Support our Co-op Community Partner of the Month every month; ten percent of all receipts go to HCCF.
- Donate your patronage refund check or send a separate donation to HCCF, Co-op Food Stores, 45 South Park St., Hanover, NH 03755.
Beautiful Baskets
Want to give someone a special surprise? We have beautiful custom gift baskets, perfect for any reason or no reason at all. We’ll build ‘em, wrap ‘em, and even ship ‘em. All you have to do is check out our basket brochure (220K) and pick the one you want. And of course, we’re happy to build a custom basket made to your exact specifications. Call 603-643-2667.
Giving Kids a Healthy Halloween
It’s sad but true: As a society, we bemoan skyrocketing rates of childhood obesity, then we fill the little rascals with all the candy we can give them on Halloween. So we asked Mary Saucier Choate—the Co-op’s Dietitian and Food and Nutrition Educator—to suggest some healthy alternatives, and her ideas were so practical and popular that we keep them on our website throughout the year. Mary is a big fan of dressing up and having fun on Halloween while still keeping health and wellness in mind. She is also always up for a challenge, and this certainly posed one. Suggestions could not include items that could easily be tampered with, so bulk foods, fresh fruit and vegetables, and other items from unsealed packages were out. What did she come up with?
