2023 IMPACT REPORT
Healthy Kids.
Healthy Places.
Healthy Futures.
In this report:
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Get to know the organization founded by Rite Aid more than 20 years ago.
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Matt DeCamara and Joy Errico look back at the year that was – and to opportunities ahead.
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From launching a new youth mental health initiative, deepening our partnerships with children’s hospitals and hosting a landmark summit, 2023 proved a pivotal year for our three signature initiatives.
Empowering Children
Connecting Communities
Strengthening Cities
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A virtuous cycle of generosity propels the work of Rite Aid Healthy Futures.
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The people behind the scenes – our staff and board – keep Healthy Futures going.
About Rite Aid Healthy Futures
Rite Aid Healthy Futures is a charitable, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) public charity established by Rite Aid in 2001. Originally founded as The Rite Aid Foundation, the charity rebranded in 2022.
With an intent to become a catalyst for positive change, we have developed a sharpened focus on addressing racial and health inequities by driving meaningful progress and sustainable change on these key issues. Our grantmaking supports efforts to improve the lives and futures of children through partnerships that build healthier, more equitable neighborhoods.
We are a caring and determined partner with a wholehearted commitment to good health for everyone. Each day, we bring our passion, intention and optimism to our community relationships and act together as a force for good in our neighborhoods.
We are a caring and determined partner with a wholehearted commitment to good health for everyone.
Our Connection to Rite Aid
Since its founding by Rite Aid more than 20 years ago, Rite Aid Healthy Futures has been helping create stronger, healthier communities.
A full-service pharmacy committed to improving health outcomes, Rite Aid meets customer needs with a wide range of solutions that offer convenience, including retail and delivery pharmacy. Customers can find Rite Aid at more than 1,900 retail locations across 16 states.
The work of Rite Aid Healthy Futures would not be possible without the fundraising support of Rite Aid and its generous customers and business partners. Each year, Rite Aid shoppers raise millions of dollars to support the charity’s work through Rite Aid’s KidCents round-up program, with donations from hundreds of companies, too.
For more information about the company and its services, visit www.RiteAid.com.
Our Values
As the public charity affiliated with Rite Aid, we are proud to play a role in helping our neighborhoods achieve whole health for life. That means living our values. We will keep them at the forefront as we collaborate with each other and interact with the communities we serve.
Lead with Purpose
Fight for Equity
Preserve Dignity
Earn Trust & Keep It
Get There Together
Lead with Purpose
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Fight for Equity
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Preserve Dignity
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Earn Trust & Keep It
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Get There Together
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Lead with Purpose • Fight for Equity • Preserve Dignity • Earn Trust & Keep It • Get There Together •
A Message from Our Leadership
When we relaunched as Rite Aid Healthy Futures in 2022, we came forth with a promise.
We pledged to uplift our neighborhoods, together. That alongside our partners, communities and donors, we would tackle daunting challenges facing children and families, such as racial equity, food access and mental health, and meet them head-on through innovative programs.
For Rite Aid Healthy Futures, the last year has been full of promising beginnings, deepened partnerships and continued learning. But the last year has also underscored the urgency of the work.
The escalating youth mental health crisis, impacts of inflation on those most vulnerable and persistent disparities in health and wellness for Black and Brown communities have furthered and emboldened our commitment to our partners and neighborhoods.
It’s no longer enough to react to challenges as they happen – it’s time to commit proactively to programs and people that will lead to lasting change.
So, with a new name and sharpened focus, Healthy Futures dove headfirst into communities to expand the reach of our initiatives and partnerships, accelerating progress by working for what matters most: healthy kids, healthy places and healthy futures.
In 2023, we partnered with six national leading organizations in the youth mental health space, joining the growing response to the crisis ravaging kids and teens across our communities.
We expanded our Connecting Communities partnerships with 40 leading children’s hospitals, increasing access to key resources, such as fresh food and life-saving health screenings, across Rite Aid’s 17-state footprint.
We traveled to learn from and dream aloud with 28 partners from our Strengthening Cities initiative, walking the neighborhoods they serve, meeting the families who call them home and learning more about what they need most.
Healthy Futures also continued to support more than 350 local charities that provide vital services to children and families on a wide range of issues, such as child abuse prevention, medical conditions, homelessness and literacy.
And as we reflect on all we and our partners have accomplished this year and the work that lies ahead, we know that our journey is far from over.
But while challenges like hunger and racism cannot be solved in a year, all futures start with the foundations we lay in the present and the partnerships we build along the way.
Join us as we look back at just a few of the people and organizations working to create a world full of healthy kids, healthy places and healthy futures. Then join us on our continuing journey as we live our commitment to uplift our neighborhoods together.
Onward,
In 2023, we partnered with six national leading organizations in the youth mental health space, joining the growing response to the crisis ravaging kids and teens across our communities.
“And as we reflect on all we and our partners have accomplished this year and the work that lies ahead, we know that our journey is far from over.”
Join us as we look back at just a few of the people and organizations working to create a world full of healthy kids, healthy places and healthy futures.
Then join us on our continuing journey as we live our commitment to uplift our neighborhoods together.
Matthew DeCamara
Executive Director
Rite Aid Healthy Futures
Joy Errico
President
Rite Aid Healthy Futures
Our Signature Initiatives
CONNECTING COMMUNITIES
What if we could help kids feels better before they needed to walk into hospitals or doctors’ offices?
Connecting Communities links children’s hospitals to their communities in ways that nurture and promote health equity for children, especially those who may already be receiving medical care or living with a serious illness. Funding gives hospitals additional resources to address hunger and food insecurity, adding up to better health.
STRENGTHENING CITIES
Our Strengthening Cities initiative aims to reduce health disparities for children and youth in city neighborhoods.
With an emphasis on uplifting Black- and Brown-led charities, Strengthening Cities’ funding directly supports programs advancing food sovereignty, food access and well-being in Baltimore, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Fresno and Philadelphia. Funded programs include community gardens, food banks and more.
EMPOWERING CHILDREN
When kids thrive, they become the catalysts that spark meaningful change in our neighborhoods.
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. Funding from Empowering Children supports organizations like food banks, foster care shelters, educational centers, therapeutic care facilities, homeless shelters and more.
Real kids, real stories.
Meet Jade and Isaac — two teens from Philadelphia whose lives been impacted by local Healthy Futures partnerships. Their stories shine a light on the power of grassroots nonprofits serving kids and their communities.
Check out the full video for an uplifting look at the real stories and people at the heart of our work.
Fundraising Highlights
Spare Change Drives Big Impact
$117,640,364
Raised by Rite Aid Customers to date since 2013
$9,429,334
The total amount raised from Rite Aid Customers so far in 2023
Nickels, dimes and quarters can add up to a lot more than some spare pocket change. By rounding up through the KidCents program, Rite Aid shoppers raise millions of dollars to support Rite Aid Healthy Futures every year.
When customers donate through their in-store or online purchases, funds come to Rite Aid Healthy Futures, where we invest in partnerships and programs that are planting the seeds for healthier futures for kids and their neighborhoods.
Through the generosity of Rite Aid customers and business partners, Rite Aid Healthy Futures has reinvested more than $100 million into our neighborhoods over the past two decades.
In 2022, support from customers landed Rite Aid in Engage For Good’s annual Charity Checkout Champions Report, which surveys companies who are raising funds for charities through roundup programs. With over $12.5 million raised in 2022, Rite Aid occupies the 14th-highest spot in tracked funding – with all of those dollars coming directly from roundups on purchases.
Uplifting Each Other
Rooted in their communities, Rite Aid stores are trusted neighborhood resources. Customers rely on Rite Aid for their health needs and household essentials. These same shoppers can also choose to round up their purchases, joining Rite Aid’s business partners and vendors in supporting Rite Aid Healthy Futures. The charity reinvests the funds, helping create a virtuous cycle where Rite Aid customers and business partners help shape healthy futures in our shared communities.
Rite Aid Partners
Rite Aid customers aren’t the only generous supporters of Rite Aid Healthy Futures. More than 80 Rite Aid business partners, vendors and executives donated to Healthy Futures in 2022 to fuel our 2023 priorities. Their support allowed Healthy Futures to continue its important work in our shared communities.
Thank you to our corporate and individual donors:
$100,000
Rite Aid Corporation
$50,000+
Coca-Cola
$21,000 - $49,999
Pepsi-Cola Co.
Constellation Brands
Daymon Worldwide
Excite
Heineken USA
Procter & Gamble
RNDC
Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirts
$20,000
Bodyarmor Sports Drink
Ferrero USA
Glaxosmithkline
Hershey Chocolate
Johnson & Johnson
Kimberly Clark - Family Care
Kimberly Clark Corp.
Lasko Metal Products Inc.
L'oreal Paris
Monster Energy Company
Parfums De Coeur
Smucker Company
Sun Bum
TalkingRain Beverage Company
Unilever
$10,000 - $19,999
Beam Global Suntory
Emerson Healthcare LLC - Living Essentials
Riboli of San Antonio
Frito Lay
Bayer Healthcare
Bic
Capital One
Conair
Conair Appliances
Emerson Healthcare LLC – Hisamitsu
Emerson Healthcare LLC - Hylands
Emerson Healthcare LLC – Pharmacare
Emerson Healthcare LLC – Scholls
Irwin Naturals
LNK
New Belgium Brewery
Piping Rock
The Wine Group, LLC
$500 - $9,999
Founders Brewing Company
Pernod Ricard USA
Beiersdorf Inc.
Ferrara Candy Company
Frank-Lin Distillers
Herr Foods
Zydus
Bacardi
Emerson Healthcare LLC – Advantice
Emerson Healthcare LLC – Avrio
Emerson Healthcare LLC - Boiron
Emerson Healthcare LLC - Bridges CH
Emerson Healthcare LLC - Carma Labs
Emerson Healthcare LLC – Focus
Emerson Healthcare LLC – Genexa
Emerson Healthcare LLC - Helen of Troy
Emerson Healthcare LLC - HRA Pharma
Emerson Healthcare LLC - Liquid IV
Emerson Healthcare LLC - Lornamead
Emerson Healthcare LLC – Molnlycke
Emerson Healthcare LLC – Similasan
Emerson Healthcare LLC - Vespyr Brands
Emerson Healthcare LLC - Wahl Clipper Corp
FIFCO USA
Jackson Family Fine Wines
L H Sisitzky Sales
Lighthouse Document Tech
MedTech Labs
Nature Made – Pharmavite
Ricola
Storck
Pro's Choice
EN-R-G Foods, LLC.
Fantasy Farms
Neo-G
Post Consumer Brands
Libman Company
Apotex
Henkel Corporation
Holly-Wood III Construction, Inc.
Lotus Bakeries
Matt Schroeder
M Fried
Board of Directors
Joy Errico
Board President and Senior Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs &
Communications Officer, Rite Aid
Byron Purcell
Treasurer (Non-Voting) and Vice President of Investor Relations, Rite Aid
Chris DuPaul
Director and Chief Operations Officer, Elixir
Emily Edmunds
Director and Secretary and Vice President of Employment Law, Rite Aid
Jessica Kazmaier
Director and Chief of Staff and
Chief Human Resources Officer, Rite Aid
Matt Schroeder
Director and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Rite Aid
Susan Thomas
Director and Senior Vice President of Growth and Retention, Elixir
Healthy Futures Staff
Matthew DeCamara
Executive Director
Emelia Gabbert-Payne
Communications Specialist
Allison Hill
Student Fellow
Lindsay Mason
Deputy Director
Gayle Rife
Manager
Kyle Smith
Senior Manager
Andrew Staub
Communications Manager