Reusable Bags for Positive Change: Leading Nonprofit Alliance for Positive Change Selected by Jersey City Stop & Shop as its Community Bag Program April 2022 Partner
For every $2.50 reusable bag sold at the Central Avenue Stop & Shop in April, the supermarket will donate $1.00 to Alliance’s programs for New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS and other chronic health conditions
JERSEY CITY, NJ – This April, Jersey City residents can shop greener while supporting leading Tri-state area nonprofit Alliance for Positive Change (Alliance). Alliance has provided low-income New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS and other chronic conditions with access to quality health care, housing, harm reduction, coaching, and job training for over 30 years.
Alliance opened at the height of the HIV crisis as a welcoming community of transformation and opportunity. Now, it is receiving support from Stop & Shop’s Community Bag Program after being anonymously nominated as a Stop & Shop’s partner. Throughout the month of April, every purchase of a Stop & Shop reusable community bag at the Jersey City store on 232 Central Avenue will raise $1.00 for Alliance.
“Alliance is proud to deliver on the promise of positive change with health care, housing, harm reduction, coaching, and economic mobility programs that equip people to navigate systemic inequities and achieve health and well-being,” said Dr. Ebony L. Ross, Director of Development and Planning at Alliance for Positive Change. “We are so grateful to have been selected as part of the Community Bag Program and for Stop & Shop's support, as are the more than 5,000 people we serve.”
Stop & Shop’s Community Bag Program reduces consumption of single-use plastics and provides support for local nonprofits like Alliance. Since the first bag was sold on May 1, 2019, the initiative has sold more than 1,610,000 bags, generating needed support for local nonprofits.
“We are excited to have Alliance for Positive Change as the benefitting organization for the Stop and Shop Community Bag Program in the Jersey City Stop & Shop for the month of April! Alliance for Positive Change has such an amazing impact in the community, helping those in need and connecting them to the resources that can have a positive and long-lasting influence on their lives, and we are looking forward to partnering with them during the month of April!” said Melissa Hansen, Stop and Shop Community Bag Program. “It’s our pleasure to support Alliance through our Program, and we encourage Jersey City Heights shoppers to buy reusable bags this month.”
In addition to a wide-array of supportive services, providing consistent access to fresh and healthy food is a priority for Alliance. Alliance hosts weekly nutrition courses and twice-monthly food pantry events at all six of its NYC locations. Alliance’s annual Thanksgiving and Holiday food distribution events provide hundreds of turkeys and fixings and thousands of pounds of chicken, fresh produce, and nonperishables to Alliance program participants and the community. At all food distribution events, Alliance provides free and confidential rapid HIV/HCV tests via Alliance on the Move.
For more information about the Stop & Shop Community Bag Program, please visit stopandshop.bags4mycause.com. To learn about all the ways Alliance for Positive Change promotes community, visit http://www.alliance.nyc.
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Alliance for Positive Change is a leading multiservice organization that provides low-income New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS and other chronic conditions with access to quality health care, housing, harm reduction, coaching, and PATH to Jobs—our renowned peer training and job placement program that cultivates leadership and economic mobility. Alliance opened in 1991, at the height of the HIV crisis—a welcoming community of transformation and opportunity. Today, we deliver on the promise of Positive Change with services and resources that equip people to navigate systemic inequities and achieve health and well-being.