The Positive Change program raises money for local non-profit organizations working to better our community. We believe in the power of change and the power of community – Positive Change combines these two beliefs into one powerful program. The Positive Change program is one of the many ways the Co-op fulfills the seventh cooperative principle: Concern for Community.
Next time you check out, say “I’d like to round-up for Positive Change,” and we’ll round-up the total of your purchase to the nearest dollar, or you can donate any desired amount. Each month, the selected non-profit organization receives 100% of the donated funds, plus an additional $500 grant from the Co-op. In celebration of National Co-op Month, MFC reserves the month of October each year to fundraise for a program, fund, or organization to be determined at the discretion of MFC's Outreach Committee. Annually, the Board of Directors selects one Positive Change recipient to receive an additional grant from our Cooperative Community Fund. Thank you for contributing to positive change and making a difference in our community!
KS Wild
Help KS Wild conserve old-growth forest in our bioregion!
KS Wild's mission is to protect and restore wild nature in the Klamath-Siskiyou region of southwest Oregon and northwest California. They promote science-based land and water conservation through policy and community action. KS Wild envisions a Klamath-Siskiyou region where local communities enjoy healthy wildlands, where clean rivers are teeming with native salmon, and where connected plant and wildlife populations are prepared for climate change.
KS Wild achieves their vision through outreach and advocacy-based education, by building community support for the conservation of the region’s special places and natural gems, by being the watchdog and steward of northern California and southern Oregon’s public lands, public trust waters, and the diversity of plant and animal life.
KS Wild monitors every timber sale in the Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion. They are dedicated to protecting conservation values – old growth forest ecosystems, endemic biodiversity, and promoting good land management by public agencies. Using the legal tools of the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, and others, they strive to maintain the ecological integrity of our amazing bioregion.
Funds will either be used to support forest defense work, like paying attorney and conservation staff to continue to watchdog timber projects on public lands, or the funds will be used to support developing restoration projects.
KS Wild
KS Wild (The Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center) protects and restores the wild places, clean water and habitat of the Klamath-Siskiyou region. They use community outreach and grassroots advocacy to help protect the wild rivers and ancient forests on more than 8 million acres of public land in our region.
KS Wild’s mission is to protect and restore wild nature in the Klamath-Siskiyou region of southwest Oregon and northwest California. They promote forest and water conservation through community action and science-based policy. They envision a Klamath-Siskiyou region where local communities enjoy healthy wildlands, where clean rivers are teeming with native salmon, and where connected plant and wildlife populations are prepared for climate change.
Positive Change funds will be used in KS Wild’s Forest Watch, Climate, Stewardship, and Riverkeeper programs to conduct community outreach and education in support of clean water and wildlife. Your support will aid our public lands stewardship and citizen watchdog efforts aimed at helping protect and restore the wild places of the Klamath-Siskiyou.
Read our interview with KS Wild in the Spring 2022 issue of the Fresh Press, our quarterly newsletter.
We turn spare change into Positive Change for local non-profits.
The Positive Change program is for organizations seeking direct financial support. Positive Change recipients for 2027 will be selected by our owners in the 2026 Annual Election. If your organization would like to be notified when the 2028 application is available this fall, please contact us.
If you are seeking a food or gift card donation, please complete our Donation Request Form.
A few cents here and there add up to big impacts for our local non-profits.
