Our Partners

Easter Seals

For more than 85 years, Easter Seals has been helping individuals with disabilities and special needs, and their families, live fuller lives. From child development centers to physical rehabilitation and job training for people with disabilities, Easter Seals offers a variety of services to help people with disabilities address life's challenges and achieve personal goals.

Since 1985, Safeway has been a national corporate partner to Easter Seals and has raised more than $83 million to support programs that benefit people with disabilities.  Easter Seals is dedicated to helping people who suffer from many disabling developmental diseases and conditions.  Among them is autism, the fastest growing developmental disability in the world today. In 2007, The Safeway Foundation provided more than $6.8 million to support the work of Easter Seals.

To learn more about Easter Seals and autism and how you can help, please visit www.easterseals.com

 

Special Olympics

Special Olympics is dedicated to empowering children and adults with intellectual disabilities to become physically fit, productive and respected members of society through sports training and competition.  As an international nonprofit organization, Special Olympics serves people in more than 200 programs in 165 countries.  Safeway’s involvement varies by region and ranges from co-sponsoring Special Olympics competitions at select venues within our operating areas to supporting individual athletes.  The Vons division provides financial and in-kind contributions for the summer games in Southern California while our Phoenix division traditionally sells a special coupon book with proceeds benefiting the Verde Valley Special Olympics team.  In Hawaii, Safeway is the sponsor of “Cop on Top”, an innovative fundraising concept in which police officers, firefighters and community leaders climb to the top of our stores throughout the islands to help raise awareness and funds for local Special Olympics programs.

For more information about Special Olympics, visit:  www.specialolympics.org.

 

Muscular Dystrophy Association

The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) is a voluntary health agency -- a dedicated partnership between scientists and concerned citizens aimed at conquering neuromuscular diseases that affect more than a million Americans.

MDA combats neuromuscular diseases through programs of worldwide research, comprehensive medical and community services, and far-reaching professional and public health education. MDA supports more research on neuromuscular diseases than any other private-sector organization in the world. MDA scientists are in the forefront of gene therapy research and have uncovered the genetic defects responsible for several forms of muscular dystrophy, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease), childhood spinal muscular atrophy, and 40+ other neuromuscular diseases.

For more than 10 years, Safeway has partnered with MDA to raise awareness and funds for neuromuscular diseases.  Through customer donations and the Aisles of Smiles program, Safeway helped raise more than $7.3 million for MDA in 2007.

Please visit the MDA official website, www.mda.org
Please visit Augie’s Quest to learn more about ALS, www.augiesquest.org

 

Prostate Cancer Foundation

The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) is the world's largest philanthropic source of support for prostate cancer research with the goal to find better treatments and a cure for recurrent prostate cancer.  It pursues its mission by reaching out to individuals, corporations and others to harness society’s resources— financial and human—to fight this deadly disease.

Founded in 1993, the PCF has raised more than $300 million and provided funding to more than 1,400 researchers at nearly 200 institutions worldwide. The PCF has been a pioneer in the grant making process, simplifying paperwork for grantees, leaving more time for researchers to conduct needed scientific research. The PCF also advocates for greater awareness of prostate cancer and more governmental resources, resulting in a 20-fold increase in government funding for prostate cancer.

Safeway’s partnership with PCF is to raise awareness and funds. In 2007, The Safeway Foundation provided more than $10.7 million to fund research grants, specifically the STAR grants, awarded to the best and brightest researchers in the field of prostate cancer research.

To learn more about PCF and how you can help, please visit www.prostatecancerfoundation.org

 

Breast Cancer Awareness and Research Programs

Safeway’s support for breast cancer awareness and research programs was brought to new heights in 2007. Our employees and customers are passionate about this cause and together we raised more than $16.7 million. 

The Safeway Foundation directed the majority of these funds to breast cancer research programs at major cancer research centers in the United States and Canada including the following:


Additionally, The Safeway Foundation launched an aggressive breast cancer awareness and detection program by partnering with regional medical institutions to support mobile mammography programs.  Safeway currently sponsors programs in partnership with:

St. Joseph’s Medical Center – Stockton, California
Nevada Health Care – Nevada
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance – Seattle, WA
Providence Hospital - Alaska
Rose Hospital – Houston, Texas