2021 Beans for Bags Nominations are open!

Oct 20

Aminah Stier at Plant-A-Thon 2019.png — Aminah Stier at Plant-A-Thon

Nominate Your Favorite Non-Profit

We reward people for their sustainability efforts by giving 5 cents back for each reusable bag used.
You can then either keep the bag credit, OR get at bean. Get a bean, you ask? If you choose a bean (= $.05), you can choose where that money goes by dropping that bean into a jar, which represents 1 of 3 non-profits in the Jefferson County Community. Non-profits are nominated by member/owners and chosen by a committee. Two jars are rotated out bi-monthly, the third jar represents the Jefferson County Food Bank, which is supported year round.

Thanks so much for joining us in this process! Keep using those bags/containers because small change makes big change in our community. Over $12,000 in donations, or 240,000 bags a year to be more exact. TOTAL DONATION TO THE FOOD BANK in 2019: $5,275.68

Beans for Bags Process

October/November: Beans for Bags nominations are open for 2021. Nominations are only accepted
through online form here. If you need, Customer Service can help you use the computer in the store.

Early December: Board Community Engagement Committee will meet to vote on the 2021 recipients.

Late December: 2021 recipients announced