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 June recipients, below.
COLLEGEVILLE: Expressive Path
Expressive Path is a non-profit creative arts organization, located in Norristown, that gives middle and high school students opportunities to shine through workshops, performances, exhibitions, public art, and community service. They also offer internship opportunities and further education scholarships to students post high school. They offer mobile, virtual, and in-person workshops at the Expressive Path Creative Arts Center in theater, dance, music, humanities, and visual arts. Their summer camp and Community Creators social group help kids stay productive, safe, and creative. Expressive Path strongly believes in the power of collaboration for strong, healthy neighborhoods. They work closely with Norristown Area School District and many other schools, nonprofits, churches, shelters, detention centers, and recreation centers. Each year, Expressive Path serves approximately 1500 students.
DOUGLASSVILLE: GreenAllies at Althouse Arboretum
To empower and support students as they become environmental leaders, GreenAllies gathers students from regional high schools to plan, design, and create the outdoor activity center called Althouse Arboretum. Today the 20-acre property is managed and run entirely by students, hosts over 17,000 visitors each year, and has become nationally recognized as a model for student-led community projects. The students run a summer camp for younger kids, grow organic vegetables for under-served local families, and host events promoting native plants, recycling and more. They envision a world where students lead the way to a more livable future by providing opportunities through service programs that promote a healthier, more sustainable community.
DOWNINGTOWN: Coatesville Youth Initiative
Coatesville Youth Initiative (CYI) is an independent non-profit organization committed to youth-led, transformational community change. Since its founding in 2009, CYI has expanded opportunities for young people in the Coatesville Area School District by providing free programs that build leadership, strengthen families, and encourage healthy choices. CYI programs focus on workforce development, environmental education, mental wellness, and leadership training. All CYI programs are offered free of charge to ensure that financial barriers never prevent a young person from participating. By partnering with schools, families, community organizations, and local businesses, CYI continues to invest in the next generation of leaders while strengthening the entire Coatesville community.
EAGLEVIEW: Communities That Care of Greater Downingtown
Since 2001, Communities That Care (CTC) of Greater Downingtown has worked to bring together community partners committed to their mission. Collectively with families, schools, and the community, CTC empowers youth by promoting mental health and preventing substance use. Through a Collective Impact Approach, they work to identify and implement changes that can help students be successful at school, home, and in the community. CTC’s in-school HYPE Clubs (Healthy Youth Positive Energy) are student clubs passionate about creating a healthy school community through advocacy and leadership to prevent substance use and promote positive mental and emotional well-being. They also host a Parent-to-Parent monthly blog and Parent Speaker Series in collaboration with the Downingtown Area School District. They aim to be a resource for Downingtown area parents to find support, information, and guidance, empowering their youth to make positive choices and strengthen their families.
KIMBERTON: Barnstone Art for Kids
Barnstone Art for Kids, located in Phoenixville, addresses Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) as a public health concern and developed their year-long, trauma-informed art programs to reduce the risk of poor health outcomes for children suffering adversity. The Power of Art (for elementary aged children) and Emerging Voices (for teens) programs include a creative full-year curriculum that encourages the development of healthy life skills by pairing a child with a compassionate one-to-one mentor to explore art in a safe, positive environment. Art making and creativity are a therapeutic vehicle to provide children with meaningful experiences while bolstering the skills of resilience. These programs support the development of communication and social skills, adaptive problem solving, self-awareness and confidence. Along with our community based “On the Go” and “Awareness Program,” Barnstone Art for Kids seeks to fill the gap faced by local children between school and home supports. Delivery of high quality, small group programs at Barnstone Art For Kids feature one-to-one relationships, intensive mentor screening and trauma awareness training, and promote community and family awareness of ACE, trauma and resilience. Programming is offered at no cost to child or family and is designed to help our children Heal, Cope, and Grow!
MALVERN: Thorncroft Equestrian Center
Thorncroft’s Mission is to develop the physical and emotional well-being of all people regardless of their individual challenges. They are committed to personal growth and education in an equestrian environment of respect, love, and inclusion. Established in 1969, Thorncroft specializes in adaptive/therapeutic horseback riding, traditional riding programs, veterans programming, inclusive summer camps, and other equine-assisted activities (EAA) for both children and adults of all abilities. While educating our adaptive equestrians in a dynamic horsemanship environment, we practice proper stewarding of our 70 acres of conserved land, caring for our beloved horses and one another. Thorncroft helps people grow as individuals and as a community by learning to celebrate the unique abilities of all people through the shared experience of horseback riding.
OTTSVILLE: Vita Education Services
For over 50 years, Vita Education Services has provided free adult education programs in Bucks County. They offer English language learning classes, GED preparation, foundational skills classes, and a Family Literacy program for parents and children. To reduce recidivism rates, their corrections-based education includes GED preparation and English language learning for men and women in the county’s jails; job readiness programs for men and women approaching release; a parent book club that keeps incarcerated parents and their children connected through reading; and a decision making course offered to men and women in the county’s jails, individuals on probation and parole, and youth in the Bucks County Youth Center. Vita’s programs enable students to succeed as workers, parents, and neighbors by providing guidance, tools, and encouragement so adults in the community can pursue their education and career goals with confidence. Adult education has the power to transform lives today and the future for generations to come.
WYOMISSING: CASA of Berks County
CASA of Berks County recruits, trains, and supports volunteers who provide child advocacy for children in the county who are victims of abuse and/or neglect. Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) are community volunteers who stand up and speak out to help abused and neglected children. CASAs work in partnership with Berks County Children & Youth Services by meeting with a child’s family members, doctors, teachers, and foster parents. The CASA volunteer ensures that the judge in the family court system is aware of all the facts to make the best determination for the child’s future and ensuring that the wishes and needs of the child are not overlooked.
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.