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BENTONVILLE, Ark., and MAHARASHTRA, India, Jan. 29, 2024 — The Walmart Foundation today announced new grants totaling over $3 million with BAIF Development Research Foundation, Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) and Collective Good Foundation (CGF).

BENTONVILLE, Ark., and NEW DELHI, Feb. 13, 2024 — Walmart today announced that its supplier development program, Walmart Vriddhi, has achieved its goal of empowering more than 50,000 micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) over five years.

Food is more than just fuel – it’s a source of joy, curiosity and identity – and a pathway to sharing a table with others. This philosophy drives FoodCorps, an American non-profit organization dedicated to providing food and food education to elementary school students across the nation.

BENTONVILLE, Ark., and DELHI, India, March 19, 2024 — S M Sehgal Foundation today announced the extension of its project ‘Bolstering Farmer Producer Organizations’ in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka.

Our commitment to honoring service members has been part of Walmart’s DNA since the company’s beginning. Founder Sam Walton served in the U.S. Army, and his dedication to serving those who served deeply influenced our corporate values as well as our philanthropic giving over the years. 

BENTONVILLE, Ark., May 28, 2024 — Walmart Inc., in partnership with the Walmart Foundation, is taking steps to aid its hometown following severe storms and tornadoes that left many across Northwest Arkansas with damage to their homes and without electricity.

For Dawn Kelly, building community in Jamaica, Queens, has always been a family affair. Her roots in the New York City neighborhood go back to 1942, when her grandfather purchased a home after returning from World War II.

BENTONVILLE, Ark., June 27, 2024 — Building on Walmart’s long history supporting communities when natural disasters hit, today the company is sharing the next steps in its efforts to draw on its strengths as a retailer with roots in thousands of communities to help them better prepare and quickly respond when disasters strike.

BENTONVILLE, Ark., and DELHI, India, September 10, 2024 — The Walmart Foundation today announced three new grants totaling $2.78 million to advance technological innovation in India’s agriculture sector. With the Walmart Foundation funding, the National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), Cornell University in support of the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) and Precision Development (PxD) collectively aim to reach over 3,00,000 farmers in India.

BENTONVILLE, Ark., Sept. 13, 2024 — Walmart Inc. announced today that Julie Gehrki has been named president of the Walmart Foundation and promoted to senior vice president, philanthropy at Walmart, effective immediately.

Company joins Dolly Parton in support of communities impacted in Eastern Tennessee.

Overall support for hurricane relief to exceed $23 million to support impacted communities through company donations and customer giving campaign.

Walmart Foundation today announced three new grants in the states of Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal with the aim to empower smallholder farmers through the Farmer Producer Organization (FPO) framework. This includes grants of USD 1.7 million to ACCESS Development Services for economic empowerment and income enhancement of farmers in Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal, USD 1.09 million to SRIJAN to improve the lives of small and marginal farmers and promote women as rural entrepreneurs, and USD 1.1 million to Action for Social Advancement (ASA) to enhance the livelihoods of smallholder farmers, both in Madhya Pradesh. These projects are anticipated to reach 39 FPOs and over 60,000 smallholder farmers.

Walmart provided a grant to the team at RoadTrip Nation to host a webinar and develop a toolkit focused on helping organizations create compelling stories that highlight systemic issues and drive narrative change.

NEW DELHI, India, March 22, 2023: Expanding its commitment to improving farmer livelihoods in India, Walmart Foundation today announced a new five-year strategy that aims to reach 1 million smallholder farmers by 2028 with at least 50% women.

At Walmart, we are grateful for the sacrifices our nation's fallen soldiers and their families have made in service to our country. This Memorial Day and every day, we recognize the importance of not only commemorating those who have given their life, but also taking time to meaningfully honor and remember them.

Schools are now eligible to benefit from Walmart’s Spark Good Round Up and Registry programs year-round

HARYANA, India, August 9, 2023: S M Sehgal Foundation together with Walmart Foundation and Flipkart Foundation today announced the implementation of an integrated project to promote sustainable solutions for effective crop residue management and to build eco-consciousness among children and youth. The details of the project were shared with Haryana State, Chief Minister Shri Manohar Lal Khattar in Chandigarh.

Varanasi, India, Sept. 20, 2023 – Grameen Foundation today announced it will deepen its commitment to smallholder farmers by launching the second phase of the Market Access eNabled by Digital Innovation in India (MANDI) project, made possible by a $2 million grant from the Walmart Foundation. MANDI-II will aim to address challenges faced by smallholder farmers, especially women, in Eastern Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal by building the capacities of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs).

New Delhi, India, Sept. 29, 2023, – As the World Coffee Day approaches, Indian coffee farmers celebrate improved yield and rise in revenue by embracing state-of-the-art farming methodologies and technologies. Key collaborators Precision Development (PxD) and TechnoServe, with the support of Walmart Foundation, have empowered smallholder farmers and Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) by harnessing the power of technology, data, adoption of substantiable framing practices and increased market access. While Precision Dev reaches out to 70,000 coffee farmers In Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, TechnoServe has been engaged with over 10,000 farmers across 8 FPOs.

New Delhi, India, Oct. 12, 2023 – On International Rural Women's Day, Walmart Foundation highlights the impactful efforts of NGOs like PRADAN, ACCESS, Mercy Corps and Srijan, working in collaboration with the Walmart Foundation's Market Access Program.

BENTONVILLE, Ark., and Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, Dec. 1, 2023 — Walmart Foundation today announced a grant of $1.2 million to the Transform Rural India Foundation (TRIF) aimed at improving the rural livelihoods of 15,000 women farmers in Uttar Pradesh to increase their average base income.

BENTONVILLE, Ark., and Delhi, India, Dec. 21, 2023 — Commemorating the International Year of Millets 2023, Walmart Foundation highlights four grantees’ efforts to enhance the sustainable production of millets.

Walmart Canada and the Walmart Foundation are awarding more than $3.5 million in grants to seven Canadian organizations supporting Indigenous and Black communities in Canada in education, career advancement, food security and health.

The Walmart Foundation has made an investment of more than $3 million in a group of organizations helping local government leaders and community-led organizations in the Gulf Coast prepare their communities for disasters. These investments include...

Our diverse backgrounds and experiences make our communities – and our country – stronger. To better understand the history and lived experiences of our neighbors, we must invest in telling their stories so we can learn more about who we are as a nation.

New set of videos, activities and provider tools are funded by the Walmart Foundation as part of Sesame Workshop’s Healthy Habits for All initiative

To contribute essential relief materials comprising food, medicines, and hygiene items and provide access to healthcare services in districts affected by flooding

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To improve rural livelihoods of small and marginal farming households, especially women farmers in the tribal regions of eastern states of the country, Walmart Foundation and PRADAN today announced the implementation of the ‘PROWFIT’ project. PROWFIT, that stands for...

New Delhi, India, Nov. 30, 2022: The Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) is embarking on the next phase of its project to support smallholder farmers in India through the promotion of effective farmer producer organization (FPO) models. The centerpiece of this effort is the further development of TCI’s Hub for Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) within its Center of Excellence in New Delhi, a web-based platform that empowers FPOS, researchers and other stakeholders to access comprehensive information on thousands of FPOs launched in 2021 in India.

Bentonville, AR – Dec. 8, 2022: Last month, at the Improving Health in Rural America event at the Press Club in Washington, D.C., the Walmart Foundation announced a $600,000 grant to Boys & Girls Clubs of America, supporting child nutrition and food access programming for Clubs on Native Lands. The grant comes from Walmart and the Walmart Foundation’s Healthier Food for All work that seeks to improve food access and nutritional food programming in geographies with limited healthy food access.