UpLift Solutions, Inc. is a non-profit organization that has been developed using a supermarket model created by Jeffrey Brown, President and CEO of Brown's Super Stores, Inc. This model of operating a profitable supermarket in low income communities by listening to and responding to their specific needs, became the core of UpLift Solution's mission. It has enabled the non-profit to implement its programs in underserved markets across the country. By creating synergies between government agencies, non-profits and businesses, UpLift provides consultation support and technical assistance to utilize all of their various resources for improving ‘at-risk' communities.

The program includes improving the availability of fresh food by establishing new or renovated grocery stores in under-served areas, increasing access of food and pharmaceutical goods via delivery for the homebound and expanding community development in these areas coordinated through the newly opened supermarket businesses. UpLift Solutions provides guidance to the community utilizing our ‘best practices' to assist in addressing community challenges. Providing access to fresh food has shown indications of improving the surrounding neighborhoods where this model has opened, as well as providing job opportunities for many living within the community. It is presumed that positive health benefits will result as well, due to the improved availability, quality and affordability of fresh food that was not previously obtainable in these areas.

Uplift Solutions is proud of the recognition our Chairman Jeffrey Brown has received from President Obama with an invitation to sit with the First Lady at the State of the Union address on January 27, 2010. Please feel free to visit our website, www.upliftsolutions.org., for information on UpLift Solutions, Inc. and to donate toward our efforts. We look forward to being a part of the urban and rural development across the country as we ‘Change lives, one community at a time'.