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Brown’s Super Stores boost minority-owned businesses
CBS News in Philadelphia recently ran a spotlight about how Brown’s is actively working to carry products from more minority owned businesses and how we have started a business incubator program to give back to local businesses. You can read the full article and watch the segment on their website.
Read More....Job training pays for both ex-offenders and grocer
In despair, sitting at her kitchen table in Chester, Dayna Chandler, 33, began this calculation: Maybe her three children would be better off if she were dead. A former bank teller, she had a criminal conviction for theft, had been in prison, and hadn’t been able to keep a job for four years, not with that […]
Read More....PA biz owners’ fund helps 1,000 entrepreneurs cut off from government aid
As the first wave of the pandemic was raging and businesses were reeling from the shutdown, a group of Philadelphia-area business leaders brainstormed ways to help. While state and federal financial aid were supposedly available, many mom-and-pop enterprises struggled to access the money. With experience in industries ranging from supermarkets to corporate law, the group came up […]
Read More....Brown’s ShopRite Partners grant a wish
Brown’s ShopRite of Roxborough, in collaboration with U.S. Global Glow and the Make-A-Wish Foundation, granted a special little boy an exciting wish. Jared, a 9-year-old boy with cancer received his wish for an above ground pool this summer through Make-A-Wish Foundation, long known for the charitable wishes they bestow on children with life-threatening medical conditions. […]
Read More....ShopRite owner Jeff Brown forms partnerships with Philadelphia’s Black-owned food businesses
The coronavirus pandemic was ravaging companies and government money was nowhere in May 2020, when a group of business leaders created the Pennsylvania 30-Day Fund to offer grants and forgivable loans to small businesses. Jeff Brown, who owns a dozen supermarkets in the Philadelphia region, said he and other fund founders took the vetting process […]
Read More....Local Boy received a $1,025 donation from Jeff Brown
When Micah Harrigan started selling flavored lemonade at the age of eight, he had no idea that his business would grow so quickly. Now he’s planning to sell his lemonade from a food truck. Micah has received a $1,025 donation from Jeff Brown, president of Brown’s SuperStores, for his truck.
Read More....Brown’s Mission And Philosophy Interview
Jeffrey Brown tells the story of what drives the mission of Brown’s Super Stores…authentic products like our delicious sweet potato pies, connecting with people of the community, the “Wall of Values”, and being involved with leaders of the community to solve problems. In this video you can also listen to community leaders and what the […]
Read More....Uplift Solutions – Sustainable Food Systems
In 2009, Jeffrey and Sandy Brown created a 501C(3) called UpLift Solutions. The nonprofit would be dedicated to improving access to basic needs for low income communities through grocery store development and assisting with this goal across the country. One of its three program areas is Sustainable Food Systems, which offers grocers, nonprofits, government and […]
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