Mission Grounds Gourmet Coffee Partners with Whole Foods Markets to Help Homeless Children

Atlanta, GA, June 14, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Whole Foods Markets is proud to announce it is selling Mission Grounds Gourmet Coffee in all its Georgia stores in an effort to help homeless Children. All the proceeds from the gourmet coffee sales will go to support homeless children in Atlanta. Mission Grounds is also announcing a new organic gourmet coffee to meet the high demands of Whole Foods Market customers, and Mission Grounds Gourmet Coffee is proud to announce all the proceeds from the coffee sales will go to benefit the Jars of Clay Emergency Shelter in downtown Atlanta.

Whole Foods Markets will role the organic gourmet coffee to all its Georgia stores this June. If sales meet expectations it will then roll the gourmet coffee out to it Southeast markets and Florida markets. “We really hope the coffee does well and we are able to help thousands of children” quoted Southeast CFO of Whole Foods Markets. Furthermore he noted “ WFM is all about community and supporting worldy causes while also promoting local vendors and suppliers. This is a home run for us as we are able to help a local coffee vendor while also helping the community and helping kids and local homeless shelters.”

Founded in 1980 as one small store in Austin, Texas, Whole Foods Market® is now the world's leading retailer of natural and organic foods, with more than 270 stores in North America and the United Kingdom. To date Whole Foods Market remains uniquely mission driven: and are highly selective about what they sell, dedicated to stringent Quality Standards, and committed to sustainable agriculture.

Whole Foods Markets believes in a virtuous circle entwining the food chain, human beings and Mother Earth: each is reliant upon the others through a beautiful and delicate symbiosis.

Mission Grounds Gourmet Coffee is a non profit organization, a 501 C Corporation, dedicated to helping children. The main focus is to help orphans and children in need the most: impoverished children in third world countries and homeless children in inner city neighborhoods in the United States.

Mission Grounds is currently helping children in the US, China, Russia, Costa Rica, South Africa, Kenya and Venezuela. They provide support in many ways; from food to shelter and clothing to books and school supplies. They also provide monthly support to orphans in Africa, Russia, Costa Rica, China and Venezuela.

Mission Grounds is currently engaged in two large construction projects which include building our second school in China and our first orphanage in Venezuela. Both projects should be completed by Summer 2008. Plans are also under way to build another school in China and another orphanage in Venezuela with a kick-off for both planned for Spring 2008. Mission Grounds is also looking at construction projects in South Africa, Nigeria and in The Sudan.

In Atlanta, Mission Grounds is working with a homeless shelter for children, the Jars of Clay shelter. Mission Grounds has contributed new appliances for the shelter’s kitchen, provided craft materials for after school fun and supplied book bags which included school supplies and children’s books for over 300 children. They have also recently supplied them with winter clothes and coats; built 2 playgrounds and put up a safety fence around the perimeter.

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