Hey all!
Every year since 2009, I have done a fundraiser (DON'T StOP Reading lol! ) for my birthday (august 7th and I really am turning 59 for the FIRST Time!).
I know that I'm still here because of all the love and support I have received throughout my life. I am standing on the shoulders of some amazing people who have cared about me.
Below is a list of organizations that I care about and am deeply invested in. I hope you will find a way to extend an offering to one or more of them to celebrate all the ways we stand with one another to support the lives of so many!
These are the only gifts I really need or want because I have everything I need in terms of material things. (How cool would it be for some folks to give 10 bucks to 10 of these and if 100 folks did that…wow! How cool would that be..but, I digress, lol!)
What makes a difference these days is how we contribute to building and supplying good in the world around us.
If there's nothing on this list that strikes your fancy, then do something that makes you happy and use this as an opportunity to do so.
As long as it brings you joy, that's a gift in itself. I'm grateful to be alive, to be connected, and to share this moment with each one of you. Being alive and connecting to good in a world that is challenged by doing good can in itself be an act of greatness! Be good to you and keep doing good for others! I hope to continue doing so, one day at a time, for the next year.
Love and blessings to all!
The Healing Place of NHC
For hope and recovery with no
obstacles
Donate to
The Healing Place of NHC
Access of Wilmington
The Miracle League and so much more
Donate to Access of
Wilmington
Nancy Loyce Phelps Hodges Public Health Scholarship at UNCW
In honor of Mom
Donate to
Nancy Loyce Phelps Hodges Public Health Scholarship at UNCW
Ada King Dean Honors in Nursing Scholarship at UNCW
In honor of Grandmother
Donate to
Ada King Dean Honors in Nursing Scholarship at UNCW
The Nancy Phelps Hodges and Martha Stines Freeze Women Empowerment Scholarship at CFCC
In honor of Mom and Mom-in-Law
https://cfcc.edu/foundation/
The Mental Health Fund, in Honor of Chris Johnson with the NHC Professional Fire Fighters Association
Loves of my life
Donate to
The Mental Health Fund
LGBTQIA Center of the Cape Fear
A place of safety and love for all
Donate to the LGBTQIA
Center of the Cape Fear
Molin/Scholz LGBTQIA Center at UNCW
A dream that still makes such a
difference
Donate to
Molin/Scholz LGBTQIA Center at UNCW
The Cape Fear Heart Walk
Always
Donate to
the Cape Fear Heart Walk
Zimmer Cancer Center at NHRMC–Novant
For men like me in recovery
Donate to
Zimmer Cancer Center
Heart and Vascular Center at NHRMC–Novant
For all of us on the heart journey
Donate to
the Heart and Vascular Center
NHC Parks Conservancy
For the joy these places give us all
Donate to
NHC Parks Conservancy
The Good Shepherd Center
For those who seek shelter, need, and
food
Donate to the Good Shepherd Center and
Shelter
The Cameron Art Museum
Truly one of the best places of
respite, art, life, and connection in SE NC
Donate to the Cameron Art Museum
The Carousel Center
Every Child Deserves peace and not to be harmed, and to be healed
Donate to the Carousel Center
The YWCA
Racial Justice is not an option.
Trauma Resource Institute
Biological Resilience will be our path forward together
Resource for Resilience
Creating the change in WNC one nervous system at a time
