Round Up at the Register is a new opportunity to benefit our community organizations. Once every quarter we will offer a two-week period when our owners and customers may choose to “round up” the cost of their purchases to the next dollar (or $5, or $10, if you feel so inclined) and the change will go to a local non-profit. For example, if your purchase totals $6.52, you can round up your payment to $7.00 and $0.48 will go to the Round Up partner organization. Our first Round Up at the Register recipient is the Grand Area Mentoring Nutritionally Informed Mentoring Project.
Since 2005, Grand Area Mentoring has supported Moab’s promising youth by providing long-term, one-on-one support. Mentors meet weekly with disadvantaged youth to act as role models and advocates. Recently, the mentoring program debuted a community-based mentoring strategy that provides mentors and mentees freedom to explore Moab.
Moonflower is partnering with the mentoring program to host mentors and mentees in-store as they shop and explore key concepts of eating healthy, eating organic, and eating locally. 94% of participating students qualify for free or reduced lunch, a federal indicator of poverty. Many lack consistent access to well-balanced, nutritious foods and the means to do their own shopping. By donating you are providing students direct access to healthy, local, organic food. Mentors and mentees will have the opportunity to shop for groceries, thoroughly investigate our bulk food items and zero-waste goals, and checkout all the yummy treats at the Datura deli. Students will be encouraged to read ingredients lists and nutrition labels as they shop.
Last month mentors attended advanced training sessions and in-store coaching events on how best to shop with their mentees and what aspects about nutrition they should really focus on. Mentors learned how to engage students in a constructive, welcoming, and motivational environment to excite them about healthy and holistic living.
Here at Moonflower we are passionate about providing Moab with the best local and organic products and sharing a vision of community-based holistic living. As patrons of Moonflower you now have the opportunity to use the power of your purchase to speak true to your values and support a program that directly makes a difference in the lives of Moab’s promising youth.