For many years, Weavers Way’s Environment Committee has been giving out cash grants to community groups in Mt. Airy, Germantown, East Falls, West Oak Lane, Roxborough, and Chestnut Hill. In 2018, the program has been extended to include Ambler. Most grants are awarded for public purposes that benefit the environment through education and/or gardening projects. (You can still apply through March 9. Visit www.weaversway.coop/pages/environment-committee-community-grants for more information.) These grants are funded by the proceeds of our two electronics recycling days and the TreeCycling event to turn Christmas trees into mulch. (We share the proceeds, and the work, with our partners Green in Chestnut Hill.)

Now this year, we’re getting an additional funding source: On March 13, the Environment Committee will be the beneficiary of the monthly “Giving Twosday” at all Weavers Way stores.

There’s a very good chance that your group or a group you know of has been funded through this great program, in which the cashiers ask shoppers if they’d like to donate $2 to a designated nonprofit. So please shop the Co-op on Tuesday, March 13, and when your cashier asks if you’d like to contribute $2 to the Environment Committee’s grants program, please give a hearty “Yes!” – and consider giving even more to this valuable program.

Thank you in advance from all of us on the Environment Committee!