To: Wal-mart, Best Buy, Macy's, Target, K-Mart, Amazon.com, ebay.com, President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
One Penny Promise
I'm asking our big retailers to make the One Penny Promise, a promise to donate one penny for every dollar brought in during the biggest shopping weekend of the year--black Friday through Cyber Monday--to poverty-ending charities. Last year, the total was 59.1 billion dollars. That would have been 591 million dollars donated to poverty-ending charities, which could do a great deal of good
Why is this important?
We are coming up on the holiday season. As we all know, the holidays are about giving, and in the process of us giving to our loved ones, retailers and big box stores make millions of dollars over a single weekend. So with 1 in 6 Americans facing hunger, and 1 in 4 children living in a food unstable home (meaning they are not guaranteed to be able to eat three meals a day), I'm asking those companies that make millions to do something. I'm asking each and every retailer and big box store, those like Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Macy's, Belk's, JC Penny, Target, K-Mart, Amazon.com and many others to take the One Penny Promise. The One Penny Promise is a pledge that for every dollar they make during the biggest shopping days of the year--Black Friday thru Cyber Monday--they will donate one penny to poverty/hunger-ending charities. Charities like KIDS, and Concern Worldwide US, and others.