Building
Bright Futures

Positive Change Starts with Healthy Kids

When kids thrive, they become the catalysts that spark meaningful change in our neighborhoods. Working with strategic partners particularly focused on youth, Rite Aid Healthy Futures is here to support, inspire and empower children so all kids can unlock their full potential and become the changemakers of tomorrow.

Our
Partners

  • Thanks to generous customer donations, Rite Aid Healthy Futures supports more than 400 community-level nonprofits that create healthier, more equitable neighborhoods. Spread across 17 states, these charities include food banks, homeless shelters, foster care organizations, child abuse centers and therapeutic care facilities for chronically ill children -- often tackling some of the most difficult challenges facing young people today.

    Click here for a full list of supported charities.

  • EmbraceRace has emerged as a trusted and powerful resource over the past two years. The organization provides information, resources and community for parents, educators and other adults who want to raise kids who are thoughtful, informed and brave about race. Healthy Futures has supported the organization’s capacity building and programming during a critical inflection point in our country’s racial reckoning.

  • With running at its heart, Girls on the Run is dedicated to creating a world where every girl knows and activates her limitless potential and is free to boldly pursue her dreams. Rite Aid Healthy Futures funding allowed Girls on the Run to continue operations during the COVID-19 pandemic and build upon its existing diversity, equity and inclusion work.

  • The SeriousFun global family of camps and programs helps children and their families reach beyond illness to discover joy, confidence and new possibilities. Support from Rite Aid Healthy Futures has advanced network-wide diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and helped SeriousFun member camps prepare to re-open for in-person activities safely.

 Partners

Raising a Brave Generation

Amid the racial reckoning of 2020 and 2021, EmbraceRace suddenly found itself as the go-to resource for parents hoping to teach their kids about race. Funding from Rite Aid Healthy Futures, then The Rite Aid Foundation, supported EmbraceRace as it established itself as a national leader in the space of children’s racial learning and socialization. Using a grant from Healthy Futures, the nonprofit expanded its staff from two to six full-time employees, launched a new storytelling initiative and began building a fundraising structure that will sustain its critical work into the future. Looking ahead, EmbraceRace hopes to reach more than half a million people through its channels, make antiracist interventions more widely available, establish a research-practice network and more.