Rounding Up at the Register is a program that gives you the opportunity to give back to your local community every time you shop. You’ll have the option to round up to the nearest dollar when you check out, and the difference will be donated to a local non-profit. You can opt to donate more (up to $20), if you wish. Every month we’ll donate to a different non-profit at each of our eight locations. Plus, we are matching your donations. Meet our July recipients, below.
COLLEGEVILLE: Sebastian Riding
Sebastian Riding Associates is a non–profit therapeutic riding center dedicated to improving the lives of children and adults with physical, emotional, cognitive, and developmental disabilities through equine-assisted services. Located in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, SRA has served the community for decades by providing safe, inclusive, and compassionate programming centered around the healing connection between horses and people. As a PATH (Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship) center, their certified therapeutic riding instructors, with the help of their amazing equine team, develop a program designed specifically to meet the needs and goals of each rider. These needs include physical benefit, cognitive function, social development, and emotional wellness.
DOUGLASSVILLE: Shady Hollow Assisted Riding
Shady Hollow Assisted Riding, located in Birdsboro, provides people of all ages and abilities with the benefits of experiencing a working farm and interacting with horses. At Shady Hollow Assisted Riding (SHAR), their vision is to create a future where individuals with physical, social, cognitive, and emotional challenges embrace boundless opportunities through equine-assisted activities and outdoor educational experiences in a picturesque landscape. They aspire to be a beacon of excellence, recognized for their unwavering commitment to inclusion, accessibility, preservation, and innovation.
DOWNINGTOWN: Chester County OIC
Chester County OIC (Opportunities Industrialization Center) guides individuals through economic and life obstacles towards a successful career. They provide skills training and educational resources for Chester County residents facing barriers to employment. Reinforcing this with real-world support and mentoring, their experienced staff guides individuals in collaboration with libraries, schools, and other institutions. Programs take place virtually and at six locations across Chester County.
EAGLEVIEW: It Takes A Village
It Takes A Village helps families and individuals bridge the gap and provide for basic needs when government or other service programs stop. Best known for their grab-and-go food boxes around Chester County—these open access mini food pantries offer a place where members of the community can give or receive anonymously at any time. They’ve also taken on a varied list of projects as community needs arise. It Takes a Village prides themselves in evolving to meet the needs of our community and members at any given time.
KIMBERTON: Citizen Advocacy of Chester County
The mission of Citizen Advocacy of Chester County is to initiate and support a variety of long-term relationships that provide advocacy for people living with a disability. These relationships provide opportunity, protection from harm, sponsorship into community life, friendship, and justice for isolated people. Each individual is thoughtfully matched with an independent community member who commits to standing alongside them for the long term. Advocates are members of the community and independent from service systems. This ensures advocates can focus on the whole person and respond fluidly as needs and circumstances change. Many people with disabilities face significant barriers to meeting basic needs such as food, housing, healthcare, safety, and meaningful connection. While systems and services may exist, there are often gaps in those systems and accessing and navigating them can be overwhelming and complicated. Advocates help individuals access basic needs such as food, housing, healthcare and meaningful social connections within the community.
MALVERN: Baker Industries
Baker Industries, operating in Malvern, Kensington, and now Norristown, is a 46-year-old nonprofit workforce development program serving adults facing significant barriers to employment, including individuals with disabilities, returning citizens, people in recovery, and those experiencing homelessness. Their model is simple: participants do real, paid work for real customers while building the skills, confidence, and stability needed for lasting employment. Participants work on light manufacturing and packaging contracts for companies like Tastykake, Stockwell Elastomerics, Scrub Daddy, and Crazy Aaron’s Thinking Putty. They wrap structured job readiness training in a trauma-informed environment—covering punctuality, teamwork, goal setting, decision making, and managing change. Unusual among programs like theirs, participants are paid for their time in training, not just on the production floor. They believe personal development is real work, every individual has value, and everyone deserves respect.
OTTSVILLE: Studio Route 29
Studio Route 29 is a progressive art studio that centers on the creative practices and perspectives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. They are a community space that champions inclusion and brings people together in play and creative spirit. They aim to strengthen the art community at large by extending resources and access to space, materials, and support to explore, create, and develop an artistic practice. Artists have access to a wide range of mediums including (but not limited to) drawing, painting, sculpture, mixed media, installation, fashion design and production, weaving, rug making, sound art and music, performance, video, photography, and poetry. They are integrated into the broader creative community of Frenchtown and beyond, offering clubs, workshops, field trips, exhibitions, performances, film screenings, and all kinds of festivities that are open to the public. Their gallery celebrates, represents, and advocates the artistic and cultural production of the studio, community space, and larger progressive art studio movement, exhibiting and selling artworks by their own artists and others. They promote studio artists’ artwork and provide career support and professional development specific to each artist’s personal goals.
WYOMISSING: Berks Community Health Center
Berks Community Health Center’s mission is to increase access to healthcare and improve the overall health of our community through delivering comprehensive services for all residents of Berks County regardless of economic status. They serve an estimated 20,000 patients annually at four locations in Reading. They accept Medicaid, Medicare, all insurances, patients with no insurance, and never turn anyone away due to inability to pay. Berks Community Health Center is committed to improving the health of our community through the delivery and coordination of affordable, comprehensive care for all.
Does your organization make a measurable impact on our local community? To be considered as a recipient of a future donation, please fill out our Rounding Up at the Register Application. Requests for donations made in-store, over social media, or over the phone cannot be accommodated.
