Deep Roots. Shared Future.
Every time you shop, you help keep your dollars local, support Midwest farmers, and strengthen our neighborhood’s food system.
We’re asking our community to come together again, to strengthen our roots.
Our grocery store can help make the world a better place. In order to do so, it has to be financially viable. The task of opening a small, single location grocery store and nurturing it to a sustainable level of operations is daunting – it takes time and it takes capital reserves to help us weather the challenges we are facing and will inevitably face in the future.
Ways to Support our Market
Join us in our campaign!
Your investment, donation, or decision to become an owner helps ensure our store remains strong and vibrant.
Become an Owner
Preferred Shares
For Illinois-based owners, this is your opportunity to make a socially responsible investment that supports our co-op’s growth and provides potential future dividends.
Donations
Anyone, anywhere can donate. Every dollar helps nourish our future, ensuring our co-op continues offering the fresh, local food our community deserves.
Your Investment Strengthens Our Co-op
Our Financials
We are making progress – we should celebrate that progress and the beneficent impact it has had on those who shop at our store and on their communities. But the task is not yet done. We still need to have more daily sales for the store to be a long-term viable operation. We are not yet at a level of sales sufficient for the cash flow to be enough to meet all our obligations. We need capital reserves to help sustain us as we work to generate the needed level of sales.
Funds Remaining to be Raised
Total Funds Raised: $222,000
Total Funds Remaining to be Raised: $128,000
Capital Campaign Breakdown
$50,000 Rent
$80,000 Sales Tax
$25,000 Vendor Payments
$5,000 Deli Department
$35,000 Liftgate
$155,000 Capital Reserves
Total Capital Needed: $350,000
WANT TO LEARN MORE?
Email Invest@WildOnionMarket.com for more information or to speak to a member of the Fundraising Team about your investment options.
If you are ready to pledge, use our online pledge form now! Remember at our co-op, every purchase is building the kind of community we want to live in.
Not an Owner yet? You can still join us!
If you have an unanswered question, email us: Invest@wildonionmarket.com.
We love questions!