Microcredit

2014 Supplier Alliance for Microcredit® empowers more than 4,500 people

More than 4,500 people around the world will have a chance to lift themselves out of poverty and change their own lives through microcredit – thanks to Whole Planet Foundation’s Supplier Alliance for Microcredit partners. These 16 like-minded companies each have committed $50,000 this year to support the foundation’s poverty alleviation programs in Africa, Asia, Latin America and in the U.S. Read more about their support.

Whole Planet Foundation’s 2014 Supplier Alliance for Microcredit partners include:

• Alaffia
• Allegro Coffee Company
• BlueAvocado
• Frontier Co-op
• Garden of Life
• Hain Celestial
• Hint Water
• IZZE Sparkling Juice
• PACT
• Rescue Remedy
• Rishi Tea
• Sambazon
• Seventh Generation
• TEAS’ TEA
• Traditional Medicinals
• Whole Foods Market

Word of Today Day 3

Culture

Full Definition of CULTURE

1

:  cultivation, tillage

2

:  the act of developing the intellectual and moral facultiesespecially by education

3

:  expert care and training <beauty culture>

4

a :  enlightenment and excellence of taste acquired by intellectual and aesthetic training

b :  acquaintance with and taste in fine arts, humanities, and broad aspects of science as distinguished from vocational and technical skills

5

a :  the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations

b :  the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; also :  the characteristic features of everyday existence (as diversions or a way of life} shared by people in a place or time <popular culture><southern culture>

c :  the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization <a corporateculture focused on the bottom line>

d :  the set of values, conventions, or social practices associated with a particular field, activity, or societal characteristic <studying the effect of computers on printculture> <changing the culture of materialism will take time — Peggy O'Mara>

6

:  the act or process of cultivating living material (as bacteria or viruses) in prepared nutrient media; also :  a product of such cultivation