Hope Business Groups
Every little helps. Together it builds a bridge.
Hope Business Groups (HBG) are our business sponsors: people who use their business to combat poverty with us. Businesses, corporations, churches and foundations are all invited to join and make their work count to eradicate hunger and combat poverty. Each member adds one plank. Together we carry food, shelter and welcome to people in need, in Jesus’ name.
1 plank laid. 11 open for businesses like yours.
Every little helps
27¢buys a school meal for a hungry child through the Bridges of Hope 1 Million Meals Hunger Solution. Small gifts from many businesses add up quickly.
Based on the 27¢ meal of the 1 Million Meals Hunger Solution. Your gift can also support other Bridges of Hope work.
Who can join
Every business, corporation, church and foundation is welcome
We need more corporate sponsors and foundation partners. Whether you run a corner shop, lead a large corporation, pastor a church or steward a foundation, you can join Hope Business Groups and put what you have to work against hunger and poverty.
Small and local businesses
Shops, trades, restaurants, salons and services.
Corporations
Companies ready to make a share of sales, profits or a signature campaign count.
Churches
Congregations that join like any other sponsor, alongside business people caring for the poor.
Professionals
Practices and firms of every kind, from consultants to realtors.
Foundations
Foundations that give a grant toward school meals, water, care or a whole project.
Why business people join
We are changing how charity is funded, for good.
You built something good. Let it carry hope further. When businesses give a little every day, the work no longer waits on one-time appeals.
Business pulls in every direction
Payroll, suppliers and customers all need attention. Giving often waits for a quieter season that never comes.
Perhaps you want your work to mean more
Many owners want their business to do good beyond the bottom line, and are not sure where to start.
Give a little, together
Bridges of Hope serves in 21 countries and handles the work on the ground. You choose a simple way to give, and the group multiplies it.
“Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”Matthew 25:40
Hope Business Groups
Our members
Every member on this board gives part of what it earns to Bridges of Hope. Anyone who would like to use their business to combat poverty can take a place by becoming an HBG member. The open spaces are waiting for you.
Smart Utilities gives 10% of all profits
Smart Utilities is a new, local provider of electricity, natural gas and solar. Every customer who switches helps Bridges of Hope, at no extra cost to them.
Grab a recent utility bill
Your account details make signing up quick.
Visit smartutilities.ca or scan the QR code
Choose the electricity, natural gas or solar plan that fits your home or business.
Tell them Bridges of Hope sent you
Your switch is then counted toward the work.
Smart Utilities is owned by Bridges of Hope board member Rudi, who has committed 10% of the company’s profits to our work. Rates, contracts and service are provided by Smart Utilities.
What members receive
Good for the world. Good for your business.
A place on this page
Your business is featured on the Hope Business Groups board with your flyer, your story and a button that sends customers to you.
Customers who choose you
We invite our supporters to choose member businesses. People want to buy from businesses that care.
Regular HBG gatherings
HBG members meet periodically to connect, pray, hear updates from the field and plan together with other business people who want their work to serve people in need.
Impact you can see
Hear how your giving feeds children, welcomes newcomers and cares for families in 21 countries.
Invite your customers to give
Six simple ways your business can fight hunger
The best-loved brands invite customers to give at the counter, in the app and during one big day each year. Every HBG member can do the same with Bridges of Hope. Pick one or several.
Hope Day
Choose one day a year when 100% of the proceeds from one product or service go to Bridges of Hope.
Example: every coffee, haircut or oil change on Hope Day feeds children.A Hope item
Create a special item for one week, with all proceeds given to the work. Customers love a product with a purpose.
Example: a Hope cupcake, a Hope candle or a Hope bundle.Round up at the till or online
Invite customers to round up to the next dollar at the counter, the kiosk, your website or your app. Small change becomes school meals.
Example: round up $8.73 to $9.00 and 27¢ goes to Hope.A Hope box on the counter
Place a Bridges of Hope coin box by the register. Every 27¢ dropped in is one school meal.
Ask our office about a Hope box and counter sign.Hope hearts on your wall
Offer paper Hope hearts for $2, $5 or $10. Customers write their name and you post them on the wall for everyone to see.
A wall full of hearts invites the next customer to give.A share of sales or profits
Commit a percentage of sales or profits, the way Smart Utilities gives 10% of all profits to Bridges of Hope.
Your customers give simply by choosing you.Fund something that lasts
Your business can build hope people can touch
Beyond everyday giving, an HBG member can take on a whole project in its own name. Choose the one that moves you, and we will show you the cost and report back on the results.
Build a school
Give children a classroom, desks and a place to learn.
Drill a water well
Bring safe water to a whole village and free children to go to school.
Build an orphan care centre
Give children without parents a safe, loving home.
Fund microloans
Help families start small businesses and earn their own way out of poverty.
Pay a teacher’s or nurse’s wage
Keep a teacher in the classroom or a nurse at the clinic, month after month.
Fund school meals
Feed a whole school through the 1 Million Meals Hunger Solution, 27¢ a meal.
Join our Hope Business Groups or create a chapter where you live
Become a conscientious business person
Add your plank to the bridge. Businesses, corporations, churches and foundations are all welcome. There is no minimum. Every little helps.
Sign up
Fill in the short form below with your details. No phone call needed.
We welcome you
Our office follows up by email to welcome you and answer any questions.
Choose how you give
Customer giving, a share of sales or profits, a monthly gift, a grant, or a project of your own.
Take your place on the board
We post your flyer here with your own button underneath and invite our supporters to choose you.
Gather and see the impact
Meet with other HBG members periodically and hear what your giving has done.
No group near you? Start a chapter where you live.
Hope Business Groups can grow in any town or city. Gather a few business people or churches who want to combat poverty, and we will help you begin.
- Sign up below and tick “Start a chapter where I live”
- Invite two or three business owners or churches in your community
- Meet periodically, give together, and add your chapter to this board
Sign up for Hope Business Groups
No phone call needed. Fill in this short form with your details and how you would like to give, and you are on your way. Our office will follow up to welcome you.
What is at stake
The same business, two different stories
When you join
- Part of every month’s business reaches people in need
- Children receive school meals that help them learn
- Your customers see a business that cares, and come back
- You build something that outlasts the next quarter
If nothing changes
- Business carries on, and the good it could do waits
- The wish to give more stays a wish
- A plank in the bridge stays open
Picture what happens next
One business is a plank. Together we are a bridge.
Picture a classroom of children who ate breakfast today, a village drinking clean water, a mother running the small shop her microloan built, and your business name on the bridge that carried them there. Use your business to combat poverty and help change how charity is funded, for good.