Fundraising
Ali & Jenni: Working for Liberation
Ali Schindler and Jenni Chapman, known on Instagram as Ali & Jenni, are determined to use their powers for good. The San Francisco Bay-area couple works as advocates for LBGTQIA+ and Autism rights and representation. Currently, that work includes running a custom t-shirt fundraiser on the Custom Ink Fundraising platform. The shirt [...]
BloodHound and Thinking Outside the Fundraising Box
BloodHound is an open-source software program that helps businesses identify weaknesses within their internal computer security. After releasing the first version of BloodHound in 2016, programmer Andy Robbins set out to create custom merchandise and give back to the community with a BloodHound shirt fundraiser to benefit the Muscular [...]
Fundraising & Fancy Footwork
When Sammy Zweben organized DANCE 4a CAUSE’s first fundraiser 12 years ago, she had no idea how much it would grow. What started as a modest event in a dance studio involving choreography and canned food has since grown to a big deal in New Jersey—DANCE 4a CAUSE has gone on to raise almost $150,000 for charity! Sammy initially started [...]
Camp Willow
Willow trees are known for many things—flexibility, stability, and growth, to name a few. Rooted in these qualities, Camp Willow lives up to its namesake as an organization that provides positive opportunities for children with mental, physical, and developmental disabilities. By offering the ability to explore the world through art, [...]
More Than a Club
When most people hear the word “summer camp”, visions of cabins, campfires, and calamine lotion come to mind. Not many think about soccer balls, stadiums, and Spain—but for seven-year-old Mia Kristine Elizondo, that’s exactly what her summer camp experience was like. This past June, Mia attended her local Futbol Club Barcelona (FC [...]
The Driven to Cure Fundraiser
Most nineteen-year-olds are just getting started with their lives, making plans for the future, and living in the moment. But Andrew Lee’s nineteenth year brought him a diagnosis of Hereditary Leiomyomatosis and Renal Cell Cancer (HLRCC), a condition so rare it has only been identified in 300 families in the world. It has no known cure. [...]
“You Are Always Enough” Pride T-shirt Fundraiser
Sometimes the world changes us, and sometimes we change the world around us. Natalia Seth started changing her world through surrealistic photo compositions that turned into the wildly successful Instagram account Escaping Youth. Her work has now given her a social media platform to be able to help make things change for others. In honor [...]
Cancer Can’t Kill Love
Meaghan McGoldrick had lost both of her parents to cancer by the time she was 22 years old. Her father John Patrick “Butch” McGoldrick, an ironworker, passed in 2008 from lung cancer caused by his work at Ground Zero, and her mother Joanne died just five years later after a short bout with leukemia. After she lost her mother, [...]