Karen Wellington Foundation for LIVING with Breast Cancer’s Post

Do you like the Donor’s Choose platform that lets you fund specific teachers’ requests for material help for their classrooms? Then you will likely love this as well. The amazing Gisele Garraway and team have created a platform to help working families with non-cash requests such as gas cards, laptops, or work uniforms. These contributions can help more families find their way to financial sustainability. Yes, we ALSO need more systemic, policy-based solutions. But in the meantime, this is something all of us who are financially secure can do to help. If you have 5 minutes please listen to Gisele’s talk. And then check out the Thrivefunds platform!

LOOKING FOR FEEDBACK, I am trying to build a method of Giving for Donation ideas, and here is one I have come up with, where I am contacting companies that are Bee or Honey associated because our main character is a Bee. what are your thoughts? Hi, we are a nonprofit organization, in Fresno, for the prevention of abuse by educating through Play and Entertainment. We have cartoon/comic characters that are called the Bugillagers. Our main character is named RowJoeBee and his best friend is SemBelAnt. We are considering setting up a donation page based on naming the various characters that will be used in the comics and cartoons that we will be producing. Would you, as a BEE based company, consider donating to our cause, for the privilege of naming A Bee for our stories, A Queen for our stories, and/or a Hive for our stories? Or for a larger donation, create the personality for that character? Or even our other insectile characters. We are considering setting up a page on our site, that would automate such a Donate/Name feature, but we need to know if it would actually be viable as a method of getting involvement? Here is RowJoeBee https://lnkd.in/gaeQXTeW

LOOKING FOR FEEDBACK, I am trying to build a method of Giving for Donation ideas, and here is one I have come up with, where I am contacting companies that are Bee or Honey associated because our main character is a Bee. what are your thoughts? Hi, we are a nonprofit organization, in Fresno, for the prevention of abuse by educating through Play and Entertainment. We have cartoon/comic characters that are called the Bugillagers. Our main character is named RowJoeBee and his best friend is SemBelAnt. We are considering setting up a donation page based on naming the various characters that will be used in the comics and cartoons that we will be producing. Would you, as a BEE based company, consider donating to our cause, for the privilege of naming A Bee for our stories, A Queen for our stories, and/or a Hive for our stories? Or for a larger donation, create the personality for that character? Or even our other insectile characters. We are considering setting up a page on our site, that would automate such a Donate/Name feature, but we need to know if it would actually be viable as a method of getting involvement? Here is RowJoeBee https://lnkd.in/gaeQXTeW

Two ways to engage with this transformational conference: Attend (early bird prices end Friday) or Sponsor (DM me and we can discuss)!

Just a reminder of the Brown and Crouppen Law Firm School Supply drive tomorrow from 10-3! Looking forward to helping out and getting to know more people in my community. :) #lexisnexiscares #Schoolsuppliesstlouis #brownCrouppenLawFirm

AMPT is excited to share that we are launching our AMPT Up Blog! Through this new tool on our website, you will be able to read exciting news, op-eds, interviews, and more from our staff! We are excited to launch with two pieces from AMPT Leadership! Read ángela m. munguía's "Love Letter to AMPT" & Ana Agarrat Abel's "What we are learning from the AMPT Nonprofit Convening" below! #AMPTUp #TheAMPTUpBlog #BlackNonprofit #LatineNonprofit #CapacityBuilding #ChicagoNonprofit

It's an honor and privilege to serve Restorative Farms (RF), an incredible non-profit, located in the heart of South Dallas, Texas. RF is dedicated to transforming lives in a community facing significant challenges, including being designated the most impoverished in the state. Their core mission revolves around building a sustainable, economically strong, and well-managed urban farm serving as the foundation for a thriving community "agrisystem" within Dallas. This replicable model aims to address food deserts by providing residents with access to fresh, ethically sourced food. But RF goes beyond just food. They offer professional training and employment opportunities, empowering individuals, including those formerly incarcerated, to achieve financial stability and contribute to community development. The founders, Brad Boa, Tyrone Day, Doric Earle, and Owen Lynch, envision RF as a collaborative effort with the community to tackle three critical issues: - Providing healthy, affordable produce: Ensuring individuals living in food deserts have access to affordable, fresh, medical-grade food. - Boosting the local economy: Creating income opportunities for community members through farm production and sales. - Empowering the community: Equipping individuals with training, work experience, and leadership skills to break the cycle of poverty and resource depletion. RF is more than just a farm; it's a systems-based solution. They're committed to building a self-sustaining, climate-conscious, and profitable network of farms and people, all working towards a shared mission of community upliftment. Learn more about their inspiring work in this documentary: https://lnkd.in/gCvk3Sc2 #RestorativeFarms #CommunityEmpowerment #SustainableAgriculture #FoodJustice If RF’s mission resonates with you, I encourage you to share this post and support RF's impactful work! Donations can be made on their website: https://lnkd.in/g-jpPiUW

Did you know that the Pincus Family Foundation is a proponent of Trust-Based Philanthropy and has purposely structured their grant process to eliminate power dynamics that commonly exist in nonprofit partnerships? 📚 Learn more about how we're making a difference below! 👇 https://lnkd.in/dx6u-t_u #PincusFamilyFoundation #MakeADifference #Philanthropy

At many organizations, including Save A Family Plan, the fiscal new year is April first. This is a great time to check with your employer to see if they offer a donation matching program. If they do, it could mean DOUBLING the impact of your charitable giving! Here is a great video submitted by longtime donors, Brad and Misty, sharing how they did it. If you're willing to share this info with friends and family, please share this post or send them the direct link (https://lnkd.in/dHzqVeQu) Here's a tip: if your company does not currently offer a gift-matching program... maybe they will if you propose one :) #DoubleYourDonation #giftmatchingprogram #peoplehelpingpeople #sustainabledevelopment #saveafamilyplan

SPOILER ALERT!!! (If you know where I’ve been travelling, please don’t share the location, as I don’t want this community to be taken out of context). I don’t have the answers to Candice James BEM’s question but here’s something I’ve just learned about empowering community (or disempowering community, depending on how you want to define it). I have (literally) just flown into London for a long weekend before returning to a beautiful Southern European city with a number of social issues. As a Changemaker, funding manager, Director of Wellbeing and coach, I can’t help but be intensely interested in what is going on. What has made what once was a tight-knit but fairly underprivileged community (especially in the older parts of the city) so angry and resentful? Not everyone, of course; there are winners. But, enough to be noticeable as an outsider. Investment was encouraged to stop the decline of a crumbling city centre; now, the local people feel displaced, ignored and locked out of their steadily changing city. Yet, many still work there - often in low paid roles servicing the tourist industry - knowing that they will never be able to afford to enjoy their city in the way that these strangers can. Worst still, many of the schools and kindergartens etc are set alongside or behind beautiful churches, so this community has to run the gauntlet of strangers turning up to take photos (apparently) of them collecting their kids from school or wherever! Images that may then be posted online with the name of the school, and photos of their kids and other identifiers, for anyone to see. The target is the church, of course, but this just does not work. I totally understand the communities fear, anger and frustration. My conclusion, thus far, is that we (i.e. all of us) need to make a massive conceptual leap in how we value ‘communities’. As I said at the beginning of this post, the city is quite simply exquisite; but, the city does not exist on its own. No ‘place’ does. Every place is the sum total of the people who have gone before, those that are there now, and those that will come in the future. It’s time we begin to see the people of a place as part of its ‘essential splendor’ (however wealthy or not it is). Then, and only then will we begin to centre our change around the critical ingredient for success - the people of that place - and create solutions that work for them, too. Congratulations, The Ubele Initiative; I’m looking forward to seeing this unfold🙌🏽 H🦋