Promoting Ways Community, Faith, Family and Food
Can Help Create a Stronger Future

Our Story
The Purple Crow Foundation supports charitable initiatives facilitated by businesses that promote free and flourishing communities.

We do this by funding “learn-to-earn” student learning scholarships, by matching charitable grants with employees and partners to support the work of selected non-profits, by sponsoring community events, and by contributing to innovative food relief programs.

Scholarships

Match Grants

Sponsorships

The Purple Crow Foundation partnered with Second Harvest Food Bank for their Food Hall Invasion fundraiser in September of 2024, among other ways we work to ensure local and regional food security.

Scholarship Spotlight

Valeria Orozco

This past summer, Valeria Orozco, a Purple Crow Foundation grant recipient, worked with the Kichwa Indigenous community in Ecuador studying and building methodologies to better represent spatial, Indigenous-environment relationships. She conducted research and mapping assignments, presented her research, and is now working on a documentary to be used as an educational tool.

Employee Match News

Terry Larking

Terry Larking heads the American food service sales team at the Purple Crow. This month, Terry chose to make a donation to Second Harvest Food Bank because he values their investment in people locally through the Providence Culinary Training program. He recognizes the importance of second chances. “The Purple Crow Employee Match Program multiplies our efforts to give to the community,” Terry said.

Hurricane Helene Relief
In the wake of the devastation to our North Carolina mountain communities, Purple Crow responded to the call of our neighbors in need. We worked with our partners at Salem Leasing to deliver critical fuel to fire and rescue. In coordination with local officials and charities, we delivered two full truckloads of products to two of the hardest hit areas in Western North Carolina just days after Helene.
Other News Highlights from the Crow

December 2024
Purple Crow Foundation sponsored the 11th Annual Troubadour Concert to Support Room At The Inn, a Triad, NC-based shelter serving unwed mothers and their children.

November 2024
Purple Crow Foundation made a donation to Redeemer Christian School in Winston-Salem, NC to help promote the school’s education offerings in the community.

October 2024
Purple Crow Foundation sponsored the 25th Annual Valerie Anne Moser Memorial Golf Tournament to support Emmanual School and Prem Sewa Hospital in Utrala, India.

NEWS ARCHIVE
Baptist Burn Unit Visit

One of our long-term employees, Tony Calero, is a burn survivor. When he asked Purple Crow Foundation to partner with him and his family in their yearly tradition of providing gift bags to patients in the Wake Forest Hospital Burn Center (and their families), we felt privileged to help answer that call!

And so again this year, Purple Crow employees helped fill and deliver 100 bags, including notes of encouragement. The director told The Crow: “Our patients and families truly appreciate your generosity and kind words during a challenging time. The handwritten notes of encouragement are especially comforting.