new year - Same vision - STEADY growth
The Giving Gifts Podcast
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The Giving Gifts Podcast was host to over 20 individuals stories
The Giving Gifts Podcast had more than 2,00 listeners
The Giving Gifts Podcast is listened to in 28 countries
A new computer = so many less technical errors & so much better sound quality yay!
STEADY GROWTH
The world is a loud place, sometimes it is difficult to know what to listen to when there is so many voices. The Giving Gifts Podcast will continue to be a safe space for voices that may not be heard otherwise. Diversity, connection, transformation, relationship, and sustainability remain to be the foundation as we continue to grow, hoping to add a video component, grow the audience, do a world-wide podcast tour, and get some pod sponsors!
The Giving Gifts resources
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Discover Program - we ran our first ever program using the discover resource in May 2022
Discover resources - over 200 young individuals have had access to resources that spur on the surface level work of identifying what their gift is.
Leader resources - 50+ leaders were given trauma care informed tools to navigated leading young people
Paddletude of Gratitude - Participation in 8 countries and 6 states for the first ever worldwide Paddletude!
While we wait
Steady growth
The hypothesis: If young people are given trauma-informed care resources to navigate where they have come from (cultural, genetic, individual history), where they are now, and where they want to go they will be able to identify their unique gifts, navigate how to use their gift, and share their story we will begin to see these young people creating sustainable changes in their own community and worldwide. This research will be ongoing over the next FIVE years!
The Giving Gifts community
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It is very clear that The Giving Gifts is more of a global community than a traditional nonprofit. This means that all people, from all walks of life have a place and a say in the way The Giving Gifts moves.
The Giving Gifts Global team and The Giving Gifts growth team were both new opportunities for individuals to get to use their gifts, experiences, and stories to aid with the growth and development over this past year.
For the first time ever we had opportunity for The Giving Gifts to have volunteers!
The Giving Gifts Instagram (although you probably hear me complain about social media) has been a source of connection and growth over the past year.
The Giving Gifts is being fully funded by the support of this community.
Steady growth
As The Giving Gifts community continues to grow I am looking to bring together a team of 3-4 individuals who are committed to sharing their gifts, their story, their experience to aid steady growth over the next two years.
It is very very very clear that I am in a little over my head when it comes to social media and communication and would LOVE 1-2 interns to continue to grow The Giving Gifts community on different platforms.
As the community grows and opportunities increase there is more than ever a need for consistent and stable support. If you are in a place to consider financially supporting the steady growth of The Giving Gifts this year, please let me know.
Shellebrate
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We published a book together!
Guadalupes gift & story is being shared and received
My own story is being shared- that’s crazy!
Over 80 books will be landing in title-1 schools all over the US!
140 books have found their homes in the hands of little ones all over the world!
Not only did the books funded cover all the costs for 500 books to be published and printed, it also covered The Giving Gifts operational cost for a little over a month- thats HUGE!
Steady growth
What’s next for Shellebrate is a HUGE question and the possibilities are endless. I still have over 200 books that need to find a home. This next month I will be doing the first public reading of Shellebrate and will be delivering the first batch of donated books to Title 1 school. In the works is a US tour and possibly even a global tour. Taking the book to places that will continue to encourage kids and adults alike. Partnering with a global publisher may be a possibility, continuing to produce Shellebrate in house is a possibility, there is a lot of opportunity.
Creative Tides
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The relaunch of Creative Tides as a social impact business model
Having a team that is being able to identify their gift and how to use it to serve the event world and have worldwide impact at the same time
Challenging the consumerism of the event industry and creating well rounded resources that care about the people and not just the event
Steady growth
Creative Tides has a lot of potential to create impact not only in the event world but also through The Giving Gifts. Steady growth for creative tides will mean more sustainable changes for The Giving Gifts…connecting nonprofit & for profit in a really healthy way. There is hopes and a vision to expand Creative Tides to cross borders this next year.
In the long run, the hope and vision is that Creative Tides will be self sustaining model for entrepreneurs who desire to create social impact through enterprise.