Change for our Community

Change for our Community gives shoppers the opportunity to donate their spare change to local organizations every time they shop. One hundred percent of all donations collected go to the organizations. In 2025, we — as a co-op community — raised $65,917. Since the program began in January 2014, we have raised over $760,000 for over 70 local nonprofits.

The Change for our Community applications are open October each year.

This MontH’s Change Recipient

Ready for Good

Ready for Good employs young people facing significant barriers to employment in our non-profit furniture store in Lawrence, giving them their first real job with paid wages, hands-on training, and caring mentorship. Your spare change today directly supports these young employees as they build essential work skills, discover their potential, and gain the confidence they need to thrive as they transition to adulthood and independent living. Every round-up donation helps a young person take their next step forward—thank you for investing in our community's future.

How Change Works

There are Four ways to contribute to Change:

• Round Up: Round the amount of your order up to the next dollar and the difference will be redirected to this month's Change recipient.

• Bag Refunds: Bring your own bag, and the 5¢ bag refund will be redirected to the Change recipient.

• Donate online to our current Change for our Community recipient.

• Change Jars: Drop your spare change into the jars at our cash registers.

The co-op cannot track Round Up donations for tax purposes. Currently our Point of Sale (POS) system only has the capability of retrieving an owner's receipts for the past 90 days. Customers who wish to track are encouraged to use the Round Up total on their receipts provided by the cashier. We will keep this request in mind when evaluating potential POS upgrades.

Recent Change Partners

2026 Change Recipients

January 2026

Kansas Big Brothers Big Sisters

2025 Change Recipients

January 2025

The Lawrence Farmers’ Market

MARCH 2025

Douglas County CASA

April 2025

Growing Food Growing Health

MAY 2025

The Bert Nash Center

June 2025

Douglas County Visiting Nurses Association

AUGUST 2025

Literacy KC

SEPTEMBER 2025

Stop Gap, Inc.

October 2025

Kansas Land Trust

November 2025

Lawrence Community Shelter

december 2025

The Giving Tree

Kansas city’s 2025 change recipient

Cross-lines Community Outreach

2024 Change Recipients

January 2024

2023 Change Recipients