Project 7 a Southlake, Texas-based company donates
approximately 50 percent of its profits to support seven areas of human need:
ending hunger, healing sick people, promoting natural resource conservation,
assisting the homeless, providing potable water, educating children and
promoting peace. Each product line's variations and flavors support different
causes, allowing us the consumers to choose which causes we wish to support
through our purchases. Since its launch in 2008, the company has landed in
nearly 4,000 stores nationwide, including Caribou Coffee shops in the Midwest
and HMSHost airport locations. In March, approximately 170 West Coast Wal-Mart
stores picked up Project 7's (much-improved) Save the Earth Fresh Mint gum and
Feed the Hungry Peppermint Vanilla gum and mints. The company's annual revenue
has topped $1 million. In 2011, Project 7: Served 131,000 meals to the hungry, provided
2,500 days of shelter, food, health care and school to orphans, covered 1,800
malaria treatments, paid for a year's worth of clean drinking water for 1,900 people,
planted 120,000 fruit trees
“There are going to be streaks where you feel like things
are caving in around you. You might feel
as if you can’t score a point no matter how many shots you put up, in addition
you might start to doubt yourself. The reality
is that everyone goes through those times and they are tough. It’s important to
take a step back and get some perspective instead of just pounding ahead and
hoping things change. The buckets will
start to fall in place again and you will appreciate them even more this time
around.”
– Tyler Merrick, CEO and Founder of Project 7: @Project7
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