The Parker’s Community Fund is currently accepting applications for healthcare funding from qualifying 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations in coastal Georgia and South Carolina.

An online application is available at parkerskitchen.com/parkers-community-fund. All requests for funding in the current grant cycle must be submitted by Monday, October 31, 2022 at 5 p.m. ET.   

One of the nation’s leading convenience store companies, Parker’s has a deep, ongoing commitment to be a force for positive change and has donated $22 million to the Parker’s Community Fund. For the current funding cycle, the Parker’s Community Fund will award grants to qualifying 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations that demonstrate positive, measurable impact in the healthcare area. Qualifying charitable organizations must operate within the Parker’s Community Fund service area in southeast Georgia and coastal South Carolina.  

The Parker’s Community Fund Board of Directors encourages applicants to think big when applying for funding. Requests for healthcare-related capital campaigns, major expansions, legacy projects or endowment opportunities designed to make a major impact in the communities Parker’s serves in southeast Georgia and coastal South Carolina are strongly encouraged. 

The Parker’s Community Fund was founded in 2020 with a generous donation from Parker’s founder and CEO Greg Parker and Parker’s. The Fund awards grants to qualifying 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations demonstrating positive, measurable impact in one or more of the following focus areas: Education, Healthcare, Hunger and Heroes.

The first Parker’s Community Fund grant was awarded to Union Mission in Savannah, Ga. to open the Parker House for Women, the first facility for unaccompanied homeless women in the region. Known for its longstanding commitment to charitable giving, Parker’s is one of the most generous companies in the convenience store industry and in the Southeast.

In recent years, Parker’s endowed the Parker’s Emergency and Trauma Center at Memorial Hospital in Savannah, Ga., and made a record $5 million donation to the Parker College of Business at Georgia Southern University, supporting the next generation of business leaders in Georgia. In addition, the company’s acclaimed Fueling the Community charitable giving initiative donates a percentage of gas sold at all Parker’s locations on the first Wednesday of each month to area schools.

Parker’s stands apart as one of America’s most respected convenience store brands and is known for having the cleanest stores in the industry. Headquartered in Savannah, Ga., Parker’s has enjoyed steady 20 to 24 percent annual growth every year for the past 23 years and has been featured six times on the prestigious Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The company also offers an acclaimed Parker’s Rewards program, which saves customers time and money at the pump as well as in the store.

Parker’s has been named the Convenience Store Chain of the Year by Convenience Store Decisions, which is the industry’s highest honor, and was recently voted the #3 gas station brand in America by USA TODAY readers.  

Since its founding in 1976, Parker’s has grown to become an award-winning company that has been honored by Food and Wine as one of America’s Best Convenience Stores and by Convenience Store News as the Convenience Foodservice Leader of the Year. The Parker’s Rewards loyalty program, which includes more than 300,000 members, has saved customers more than $15 million to date. Parker’s employs more than 1,200 individuals throughout South Carolina and Georgia and completes more than 125,000 transactions daily.