Its that time of year, read about how GirlRider is giving back to our community as we grow.
Well its difficult for me, but I am putting my money where my mouth is, consistently. The causes I choose to support are local, for now (you can specify geographically when donating to national co's). Today I am making donations to Planned Parenthood and Friends of the Urban Forest.
The reason I choose Planned Parenthood is not because of my political beliefs, I respect everyones choice and in now way want to come across as pushing my position on others. Its because I have seen first hand Planned Parenthood help women and girls who otherwise had nowhere to turn. So I believe they serve an invaluable role in guiding less fortunate or uninformed women, as well as anyone who wants to learn about childbirth and pregnancy.
One of the other local organization that I absolutely love is Friends of the Urban Forest. These guys go out and plant trees in SF. Its an awesome thing and I have gone with them a few times to plant trees in various neighborhoods. People come out and give you crappy fruit salad while your digging, you get dirty, cops let you double park...lots of fun. But its a fantastic organization and I am happy to be part of it donating my time and money to improve SF.
My wife made a donation to the Sierra Club so we now have three charities that we are giving to so far this year. Our profits are small at GirlRider so giving at all is not the best business decision, but I made a commitment to myself that I was going to find a way to give back along the way, while building my company. I'm sticking to it! Hoping that spreading the love along the way will just become ingrained.
We encourage all of you reading this to do the same, either click a link above or choose your own way but give something, you'll make the world a better place.
Leave a comment and tell us how you are giving back, inspire someone!
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.encourage
-Margaret Mead
Good for you, GR giving while you're going! The way that I am helping to make a better planet is by building a career around providing Socially Responsible Investment research to individuals and corporations. -JGS
p.s. love the bucket hats!
Posted by: John Sanchez | September 17, 2007 at 10:50 AM