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Health
Championing life-saving research and care for people in need
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Hunger
Leading hunger relief efforts
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Heroes
Supporting the heroes making a difference every day
Together, we’ve made a difference! View The Wawa Foundation’s Annual Giving.
Learn moreThank You for Helping Our Communities Soar in 2024!
With your support, The Wawa Foundation has reached its 10th anniversary of building stronger communities in three focus areas of health, hunger and everyday heroes!
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Check-Out Hunger® is a 2024 National Partner of Wawa and The Wawa Foundation.
Many of our neighbors are making impossible choices between paying for food or paying for basic necessities or medication. As many as 44 million people, including 13 million children, are facing hunger.
Learn more hereOur Story
From the very start, when Grahame Wood opened the first Wawa store in 1964, he had a vision for a new kind of place that not only served customers, but gave back to its community. The company began finding ways Wawa could help the community that were extensions of what Wawa did naturally—helping care for neighbors, providing nutritious food and always being reliable and accessible.
In 2014, on Wawa’s 50th anniversary, that same legacy of giving was formalized and amplified with the establishment of The Wawa Foundation. Today, with the support of hundreds of partners and millions of customers and associates, Grahame’s initial commitment to building stronger communities continues across the same three areas that reflect Wawa’s history and purpose—championing life-saving research and care for people in need, leading hunger-relief efforts and supporting the heroes making a difference every day.