Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation

📣2026 Grants are Now Open! We are awarding grants up to $5,000 to schools and nonprofits in our communities that support children’s nutrition education programs or efforts to address nutrition security for kids and families. Applications are open through June 1. Applicants must be: 🌱A school or 501(c)(3) organization 🌱Located in a Sprouts community For more information or to apply, visit Sprouts.com/foundation

What a sweet day! 🍋🐼💐 Thank you to everyone who supported PANDA’s 2026 Lemonade Stand Day—near or far! 🦋 Kids across the Valley brought our “Children Helping Children” mission to life, raising awareness and funds for the Steele Children’s Research Center, one cup of lemonade at a time. We’re so grateful to everyone who stopped by, cheered on our young philanthropists, and helped spread the word.☀️ A special thank you to @sprouts and @sproutsfnb for making the day even sweeter! 💕 #PANDA #AmongTheWildflowers #TrailblazingForTomorrow #HopeGrowsHere #RootedinPurpose

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Social Venture Challenge! 🫘 1st place ($10k), FPI Labs from Cal Poly Pomona: A functional plant-based bar made with bioprocessed red lentils and California dates to improve iron bioavailability and support health. 🔬 2nd place ($7.5k), Aura Scan from CSU Long Beach: An AI-powered food transparency tool that decodes how everyday ingredients affect certain parts of your body. 🥫 3rd place ($5k), Free Food Box from SDSU: A network of Little Library–style community food boxes that helps distribute surplus food from church donation points. 🍳 4th place ($2.5k), NourishU from CSU Long Beach: An AI-powered mobile app that helps college students cook affordable, nutritious meals using ingredients from their university pantry. 🥟 Best Presentation ($1k), Nutranadas from Point Loma: Lower-glycemic empanadas designed to support blood sugar stability. 🌾 Social Impact ($1k), Neviva from SDSU: A regenerative, nutrient-dense dough made from climate-resilient crops that can grow in damaged soil. Students competed to create business ideas to improve food security.🍏 Presented by Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation. Learn from a founding member of Bird Scooter, Michael Selepec Wed, 4/15 6pm (link in bio)! #SDSU #SocialVentureChallenge #Business #SanDiegoStateUniversity

This morning, more than 100 @sprouts Team Members coast to coast united to present in-store donations to local schools and nonprofits supporting children’s nutrition programs in their neighborhoods. Together, that’s over $200,000 to help kids build positive connections with health and nutrition. 🌱 Shout out to Sprouts Team Members who helped nominate these partners - Sprouts purpose comes alive through each of you! 💚 Save the Date - Sprouts Summer Grants Open in April - we’ll be looking for great partners in every community we serve! Follow the @sproutsfnd to be the first to know when the grant opens — $2M in grants will be awarded!

The momentum is building 🌱🧑‍🌾 Day 2 of the Growing School Gardens Summit was packed with interactive cooking demos, fresh ideas, and hands-on inspiration that brought healthy living to life. 🥕 Keynote speaker @love.radha reminded us that belonging isn’t just a feeling…it’s the foundation for wellness, creativity, and change. We celebrated the next generation of leaders as @bluewatermelonproject Youth Chefs took the stage, serving up healthy, student-created dishes for attendees to experience firsthand.🧑‍🍳👩‍🍳 Their creativity, confidence, and leadership are proof for what’s possible when young voices are given space to grow. More to come 💚 #GrowingSchoolGardens #HealthyCommunities #SchoolGardens #NutritionEducation

The Growing School Gardens Summit is underway 🌱 Day 1 was filled with powerful conversations about uplifting youth voices and the impact of hands-on learning in school gardens. This week, 600+ educators, nonprofit leaders, and advocates have united by one belief: when kids grow food, they grow confidence, curiosity, and lifelong healthy habits. More to come! 💚 #GrowingSchoolGardens #HealthyCommunities #SchoolGardens #NutritionEducation

🌱 Sprouts team members coast-to-coast showed up in full force for our annual Day of Service. Over 45 events took place, uniting 600+ volunteers to refresh school gardens, pack meals and give back to nonprofit organizations in their local communities. 🌱 Thank you to our teams for showing up with 💚 HEART 💚 and lending a hand!

Sprouts @sprouts team members joined us in the garden for their annual Day of Service. We harvested sweet potatoes 🍠 , watermelon 🍉 and luffa, as well as worked in all four gardens on campus. They amazingly completed all of our work goals for the day. THANK YOU Sprouts Foundation @sproutsfnd for your support, time and effort!

The perfect weekend activity? A little sun, soil, and succulent propagation. 🌱 Angel City FC and @sprouts volunteers joined @gardenschoolfoundation at 24th Street Elementary to help maintain the campus garden, which supports nutrition education for over 500 students.

Each year, Sprouts team members lead the way in selecting and awarding local nonprofits that help their communities grow healthier. 🌱 This month, 16 organizations received $2,000 grants to support their incredible work. It’s amazing what we can grow, one seed at a time. 💚🌻 #HealthySeedsDay

The future of food as medicine lies in how businesses show up. At today’s #ClimateWeekNYC summit, Brandon Lombardi, Chief Sustainability Officer at @sprouts , reminded us: 👉 The private sector must help bring food as medicine to life. 👉 Farmers need intentional investment and infrastructure support. 👉 Consumers can drive demand for organic and local food with every dollar they spend. We’re proud to partner with the @sproutsfdn to spotlight bold, practical solutions for health, equity, and sustainability.

“We don’t have time to keep kicking the can down the road; we need to act now.” With those words, Lyndsey Waugh, Executive Director of the @sproutsfdn , opened today’s Food is Medicine and Eating for Health summit with @FoodTank at #ClimateWeekNYC. Together, we’re diving into how food can heal: 🥗 Food as medicine in schools and communities 👩🏽‍⚕️ Nutrition interventions that improve equity and health 🤝 Partnerships between nonprofits, philanthropy, and the private sector Huge gratitude to @sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation for helping make this conversation possible and for their leadership in building healthier communities from the ground up. We’re just getting started. 💚