Giving Back

We have a deep love and appreciation for the place we hold in the crafting community and feel honored that we are able to share our good fortune with others. Each month, we donate a portion of proceeds to a local or national charity. Learn more about past charities we've supported below.

2023

Toddlers of Lake County

Toddlers of Lake County is focused on creating, organizing, and promoting activities and events that are free or affordable for all families in and around Lake County. They are committed to creating a safe and welcoming space for all toddlers, children, parents, grandparents, and caregivers. Their goal is to bring families together through education and imagination and to make sure everyone is a part of the memories in the making. Learn more about hosting or sponsoring an event on their website HERE.

OZR Great Dane Rescue

OZR has a three-prong mission:

  • To locate loving, life-long homes for the Double Merle or medically fragile Great Danes and any other animal in their care.
  • To educate about spaying and neutering and the harm of unethical breeding practices in the Great Dane community.
  • To promote ethical care for all animals with the help of standard vet visits, yearly vaccinations, heartworm protection, and continued education.
  
Get involved by learning more about adoption, volunteering your time, or making a donation HERE.

2022

V-Day

Growing from a singular play to a vast global movement of survivors, artists, and activists, V-Day works at the intersection of art and activism to shatter taboos, create space for women and the most marginalized, and initiate community-led culture and system change. V-Day is a movement of everyday grassroots leaders demanding change for their communities. You can help V-Day take action by hosting or participating in an event, or by making a direct donation.

Give Kids The World Village

Give Kids The World Village is an 89-acre, whimsical nonprofit resort in Kissimmee, Florida, that provides week-long, cost-free wish vacations to critically ill children and their families from around the world. During one transformative week, wish families laugh, play, and create priceless memories together away from hospital visits and medical procedures. It's a magical week of "YES" where wish kids can experience the simple joys of childhood, and where families can recapture some of the precious moments that may have been missed due to illness. Learn about GKTW volunteer opportunities or make a direct donation HERE.

Bridging Freedom

At Bridging Freedom’s therapeutic safe home campus in the Tampa Bay area, rescued children and teens receive long-term holistic care to help them heal. Bridging Freedom is guided by the goals of providing:

  • Community awareness of sex trafficking
  • Education for victim prevention
  • A therapeutic safe home that provides long-term survivor care for victims of child sex trafficking

Learn about Bridging Freedom volunteer opportunities or ways to donate directly HERE.

UNICEF

UNICEF helps save and protect the world's most vulnerable children. UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children's lives, defend their rights, and help them reach their full potential — from early childhood through adolescence. Learn about some of UNICEF's missions and initiatives HERE.

Imagine What We Can Do When We Unite

UNICEF offers numerous ways to advocate and provide support. Learn more about volunteering, donating, and participating in community clubs and events HERE.

Aiden's Army

Aiden was diagnosed with stage 4 high-risk Neuroblastoma in June 2015 and started chemo on his 1st birthday. Aiden's mom, Erica, created a nonprofit in his honor to help other kids his age feel some type of happiness, however brief, while they are facing this battle.

Aiden's Army has a four-pronged mission that addresses children two and under afflicted with cancer and other long-term illnesses by:

  1. providing care bags filled with comfort items geared towards babies and young children
  2. donating money for research and raising awareness
  3. donating toys, books, and pajamas to children's hospitals
  4. carrying the memories of children that are currently battling, have overcome, and those that have been lost to cancer

Learn more about Aiden's Army or make a donation HERE.

Charity: Water

Since charity: water was founded in 2006, they’ve been chasing one ambitious goal: ending the global water crisis. And while the water crisis is huge, they’re optimistic. They know how to solve the problem and make progress every day thanks to the help of local partners and generous supporters. If we work together, they believe everyone will have access to life’s most basic need within our lifetime.

Operating expenses are covered by private donors which means every dollar donated goes directly towards funding water projects. Learn more about charity: water HERE or make a single or recurring donation HERE.

Birthday Dreams

Many take their birthday for granted. For a child experiencing homelessness, something as simple as a birthday party can seem miles out of reach. These children live under a blanket of stress, worry, depression, and sacrifice. On a daily basis, they go without. Birthday Dreams has a mission to help ease the negative feelings these children are burdened with and replace them with joy, hope, and recognition — to show them that their community cares about them and that their life has worth.

Learn more about making a direct donation or shop from the Birthday Dreams wish list HERE.

Children's Literacy Initiative

Literacy is the very foundation of all learning and the pathway to liberation for every human being. CLI helps educators serving high-need student populations learn high-impact instructional strategies and nurture dynamic professional learning communities that continue the trajectory of improvement in schools.

Here's a review of what CLI accomplished during the 2021-2022 school year:



Learn more about making a direct donation to CLI HERE.

Boca Helping Hands

Boca Helping Hands is a community-based nonprofit that provides food, medical, and financial assistance to meet basic human needs as well as education, job training, and guidance to create self-sufficiency. 

Help empower those in need in our community and inspire others to do the same! Whether you donate, volunteer, host a food drive, or turn your favorite hobby into a Facebook Fundraiser, there are many ways to get involved and support the 27,000 lives we touch each year. Get started today!

Learn more about making a direct donation to Boca Helping Hands HERE.

Make-a-Wish

From Make-a-Wish:

A wish experience can be a game-changer for a child with a critical illness. This one belief guides us in everything we do at Make-A-Wish. It inspires us to grant life-changing wishes for children going through so much. It compels us to be creative in exceeding the expectations of every wish kid. It drives us to make our donated resources go as far as possible. Most of all, it's the founding principle of our vision to grant the wish of every eligible child.

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

Read about some of the kids who have had their lives touched by Make-a-wish HERE. Set up a direct one-time or recurring donation to Make-a-Wish HERE.

Operation Warm

Operation Warm provides warmth, confidence, and hope through basic need programs that connect underserved children to community resources they need to thrive. There are several ways to make a difference by getting involved with Operation Warm. Learn more about volunteering, starting a fundraiser, setting up a recurring donation, or becoming a community or corporate partner on their website.

Project Linus

Project Linus provides new handmade blankets to children in need. Blankets are lovingly made by adults and children from all walks of life and many different sources. There is a wide range of ways to get involved — find a local blanket drop-off spot or learn about community events on their website.