Wegmans - Community Giving Grant

Wegmans Family Foundation Inc focuses on cultivating healthy communities through support for hunger relief, health initiatives, education, and youth programs. They prioritize collaborations with local nonprofits to enhance community well-being, offering assistance in key areas like economic mobility and youth engagement. Despite their wide-ranging support, they have specific ineligibility criteria, such as not accommodating personal requests or solicitation on their property, aiming to direct resources effectively where they are needed most.

Giving Back, Together
With a goal of cultivating healthy, thriving communities, we support community organizations large and small, focusing our efforts on key areas where we can have the greatest impact: hunger relief, health, education and economic mobility, youth support, and community and collaboration.
Youth Support
We are focused on helping kids gain access to youth sports, after-school programs, and extracurricular activities that provide a safe and inclusive environment where they can develop essential skills, build confidence, and connect with positive role models.
Community & Collaboration
We partner with, sponsor, and donate to local nonprofit organizations to build better communities, with a focus on helping families and enriching neighborhoods.

Eligibility

Wegmans focuses our community support in four giving priority categories: feeding the hungry enriching neighborhoodssupporting educationassisting youth and families.

Ineligibility

We wish we could lend our support to every request we receive, however, there are several types of requests that Wegmans is unable to accommodate.They include:Solicitation on our property. We can, however, consider a donation in lieu of solicitation.Requests from individuals for support of personal endeavors(however, we give generously to agencies that help individuals).College scholarships. Our support of colleges and universities is done through our employee tuition assistance program ($146 million to more than 46,500 employees since 1984).Requests from faith-based agencies for religious purposes; however we can consider humanitarian aid, such as food for people in need.Professional development seminars and conferencesEmployee recognition eventsTravel expenses for educational or extracurricular activitiesPageantsCharitable fundraising efforts of other businessesDiscounted gift card programsPolitical contributions*We do not accept written, faxed or emailed requests.