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Give Back While Buying Your Groceries—It's Easy!

Online Shopping With A Conscience

How to Give Back While Buying Your Groceries

What if you could give back to a charity that has special meaning to you each time you buy groceries? Thanks to DonateNaturally.com, this is now a reality.

Donate Naturally is an ethical online grocery store that raises funds for local causes through the sales of natural and organic products. With a wide selection of items to choose fromincluding meat, produce, personal care, and household productsthe convenience can't be beat. Donate Naturally also offers price-matching, so if you find a product being sold for cheaper at another store, they will match the price.

Donate Naturally offers Canada-wide shipping of non-perishable items through Canada Post, but for residents of the GTA, next-day home delivery is offered.

If convenience, a huge selection of organic and natural products to choose from, delivery, and price-matching aren't enough to convince you that this is a smart way to shop, then maybe this willDonate Naturally has over 300 registered donation recipients that range from national and local charities, teams, and elementary, secondary, and post-secondary schools. When placing your order, you choose a charity from the list and 10% of your order total will be donated directly to the charity. Even better, if the charity you want to donate to is not in their system, simply send them a message and they will add it for you. Simple as that.

Founded in 2011, by Jasmin von Teichman and her husband Matthew, Donate Naturally has raised close to $30,000 to date for local charities. Jasmin combined her passion for philanthropy and desire to increase awareness of sustainability and the organic and natural food industry into a business. 

“I started Donate Naturally after endless hours of baking for my children’s school fundraisers and realized there had to be a more effective way to fundraise,” said Jasmin. “Donate Naturally allowed me to combine my business savvy and my passion for volunteerism, creating an online retailer that is convenient for consumers while giving back to the community at the same time.”

To Jasmin and her husband, it is very important that the products they carry in their store are of high quality, which is why they have created a "No-No list." In their store, you will not find any products that contain the chemicals and additives found in the list. So you can shop with peace of mind knowing that what you are buying has been researched before being added to their store.

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