Rounding Up at the Register is a program that gives you the opportunity to give back to your local community every time you shop. Youโll 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*, if you wish!). Every month weโll donate to a different non-profit at each of our seven locations. Plus, we are matching your donations. Meet our December recipients below.
COLLEGEVILLE: Laurel House
Laurel House is a comprehensive domestic violence agency serving individuals, families, and communities throughout Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The agency’s name was selected because of the beauty of the laurel, Pennsylvania’s state flower. It represents a victory for people who have taken the courageous first step of reaching out to Laurel House in their efforts to build a violence-free life for themselves and their children. They advocate for and empower those impacted by domestic violence by providing crisis intervention, safe haven, supportive programs, and resources. Their goal is to advance social change through preventative education, community training, and collaboration to foster a coordinated response to domestic abuse.ย
DOUGLASSVILLE: North Star Initiativeย
North Star Initiative is a non-profit organization that exists to provide restorative care and break the cycle of exploited women. Since 2012 they have been raising awareness and educating the community on how to identify and respond to human trafficking in the community. This past summer, they merged with F.R.E.E. (Freedom and Restoration for Everyone Enslaved) to combine their efforts and resources and better support their common mission against trafficking.ย Along with creating awareness โ they have established a drop-in center in Reading that serves as a resting place and resource to victims, formed the Berks Coalition Against Human Trafficking, and manage two residential homes for women, The Harbor and Refuge Home. Both residential homes provide a restorative program focused on safety, sobriety, trauma healing, self-care, spiritual healing, and healthy relationships. Their goal is to walk beside women in their healing journey and to help them integrate back into the community as thriving and contributing members.
DOWNINGTOWN: Family Service of Chester County
Family Service is a non-profit counseling and human services agency. For over 75 years, they have actively sought out and served those who are marginalized, isolated, or otherwise unable to access professional mental health care and specialized services in our community. The original mission was to support Chester County residents struggling with family life, changing societal norms, shifts in the workplace, and other challenges. They believe that everyone has a right to be fully integrated into their community, have stability in their family life and home, and contribute to their communityโs future. Services provided include life-changing individual and family support by removing barriers and providing access to counseling, case management, youth services, and family programs.ย
KIMBERTON: Orion Communitiesย
Orion Communities is a local nonprofit that started 45 years ago to help at-risk and marginalized neighbors in their community. The goal is to focus on the street level and address gaps in services where government funding doesnโt provide for all needs. Orion offers hope for individuals and families experiencing hardship due to poverty, disability, or illness by building bridges that lead to self-reliance while working towards social justice for all. Orion believes that shelter, food, clothing, transportation, access to healthcare, and respectful human interactions are basic needs. Orion responds to the unmet needs of the most vulnerable neighbors and works to address systemic challenges with creativity, compassion, and collaboration to create a healthier tomorrow for their clients and community. Based in Phoenixville, this organization supports those in both Chester and Montgomery Counties.ย
MALVERN: A Child’s Lightย
A Childโs Light provides expedited mental health support for children and adolescents, ages 2 to 18, who have experienced severe trauma. Through their pre-licensed and licensed therapists with trauma informed perspective and training, children receive the resources and tools to help them shift their severe trauma experiences to be a part of their past and not a part of their future. Early intervention and treatment help children to heal, build positive self-esteem, improve scholastics, cease self-harm, and most importantly, stop the need for self-medication with alcohol and/or drugs.
OTTSVILLE: Family Service Association of Bucks County
Since 1956, Family Service Association of Bucks County has offered a variety of programs and services focused on increasing opportunities for adults, reducing substance use, improving the lives of those with mental illness, preparing children and adolescents for the future, improving the quality of life for those living with HIV/AIDS, providing food for those in need via their food pantry, and much more. They also operate the Bucks County Emergency Homeless Shelter, a temporary residence for individuals and families who have lost safe and stable housing. Last year, nearly 30,000 people turned to them for help addressing a broad range of challenges.ย
WYOMISSING: CASA of Berks County
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) are community volunteers who stand up and speak out to help abused and neglected children. Their program belongs to a network of nearly 950 community-based programs that recruit, train, and support citizen-volunteers to advocate for the best interests of these children in both courtrooms and communities. Through meeting with a child’s family members,ย 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 childโs 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 ourย Rounding Up at the Register Application. Requests for donations made in-store, over social media, or over the phone cannot be accommodated.