Community Enterprise & Sustainable Funding

Our Goal: To establish a perpetual funding model that ensures the continuity and scalability of our outreach. Our focus is on entrepreneurial leadership and financial self-reliance.

What We Do: We champion a proactive approach to funding our mission. We embrace Community Enterprise by actively generating our own resources through creative labor and community value creation. This means our team creates services (like neighborhood assistance) and deploys products (like art and books) to raise essential revenue. This hands-on, sustainable approach ensures that every item we deliver is backed by our own initiative and strategic effort.

Featured Projects:

  • Entrepreneurial Aid for Homeless Communities: We spearheaded grassroots fundraising by organizing and executing neighborhood job drives and multiple summer lemonade stands. The funds raised were directly used to purchase and distribute critical supplies (such as food, blankets, and hygiene kits) for homeless adults residing in Tent City 4 in North Bend, WA, and other local shelters. (Impact: Provided critical supplies to over 75 adults.)
  • Back-to-School Campaign for Underserved Youth: We managed the entire supply chain and fundraising lifecycle for this campaign—from taking neighborhood jobs to coordinating the purchase and packing of supplies. Our work ensured 500 Hispanic elementary school children from underserved communities registered with Children's Home Society of WA received essential school bags and stationary.
  • Pacific Northwest Youth Expo Enterprise: We developed and marketed handmade products (greeting cards and children's storybooks) from scratch at the NW Youth Entrepreneur Expo. All revenue generated was directly donated to partner NGOs to provide essential supplies to over 300 registered underserved families with Akin organization in the Greater Seattle area.
Summer 2024

Art with a
Purpose

Participating in the Pacific Northwest Youth Entrepreneur Expo. We participated in the NW Youth Expo with the end-goal of raising funds for charity. We made handmade greeting cards, art work and kids' story books, from scratch, and sold to 150+ guests. All the money was donated for charity. Summer 2024. - Anaisha, November 2024.

Summer 2022

Lending a
Hand

Donations for Those Without a Home. We raised funds by setting up 10 day-long lemonade stands in Trossachs neighborhood and by participating in neighborhood events. The community came together to contribute money, basic supplies and blankets to support homeless communities. My friends came together to volunteer and it soon became a movement in summer of 2022. We bought supplies from Costco using these funds, and helped 40 homeless adults residing in Tent City 4 in North bend, WA. - Ansh, Summer 2022

Fall 2022

Supporting
Education

Raising Funds to Provide School Supplies for Underserved Kids. We raised funds to provide school supplies to 500 Hispanic elementary school kids from underserved communities. This was part of 'Back to School' campaign hosted by Children's Society of WA in Fall 2022. We took neighborhood jobs like watering plants and helping elderly to raise funds, and bought school bags and stationary. We took the ownership end to end, spent days at the society packing bags and donating to the kids. - Anaisha and Ansh, Fall 2022.