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The feature below is brought to you by Heal with HeArts, a See Beautiful Grant finalist. For more information about our giving initiatives, please click here. To learn more about the featured organization, please visit their website here.  Heal with Hearts' goals for diversity, equity, access and inclusion are a driving force of our mission. We strive to provide educational projects to support the well-being of children with physical, emotional , learning differences and financial hardships.Equal access is a component of Heal with Hearts' mission to provide educational services free of discrimination of race, national origin, gender, religion , disabilities. We support all students and families in a positive learning environment in community centers, the children's hospital and schools to supplement the communities resources. We provide extra support to equal access public education and creative arts therapies. HwH works hard to continue to increase our impact in the community through excellent creative Visual and Performing Arts curriculum. Also, we advocate for health and wellbeing using the arts as tools to strengthen coping through trauma, life’s challenges and illness. Heal with Hearts is committed to strengthening our community through the Arts, caring for our community and helping the underserved students and families in Charleston and the surrounding areas.
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The feature below is brought to you by Blueprint 58, a See Beautiful Grant finalist. For more information about our giving initiatives, please click here. To learn more about the featured organization, please visit their website here.  Blueprint 58 is a community development organization in southwest Atlanta. Our mission is to strengthen our community by empowering youth, equipping young adults, and engaging neighbors. Last year, Blueprint 58 worked with a consulting agency to better understand our overall organizational goal. We realized that the best way to measure our impact was through opportunities for mutual transformation and opportunities for our neighbors to choose flourishing. Historically in our neighborhood, our community members have had to choose simply surviving over truly thriving. Our hope is that Blueprint 58 can be a small part of our community flourishing. We strive to provide spaces and opportunities for our neighbors to choose flourishing and choose to be the person they were made to be. Last July, we celebrated the grand opening of our community center. Since opening the doors to our building, we have seen so many neighbors utilize our center as a third space in their own community. It has been a space where neighbors have welcomed new babies, celebrated the lives of loved ones, and discussed the challenges of motherhood. It has been a space where students can play basketball safely, cooking classes can be conducted, and youth groups can laugh. It has been a space for other organizations (especially community-led ones) to have more meetings and a space for long-time program participants to meet for lunch. We have seen neighbors choose flourishing time and time again because they had the space to do so. This last year, we have spent time talking with neighbors and brainstorming what new community building events we could add to our space to provide more regular opportunities for flourishing. We finally landed on a learning community garden and we couldn’t be more excited. We have constructed seven large garden beds in which we will garden herbs, fruits, and vegetables. This garden will be a place for students and families to get their hands dirty and use their creativity but also a place for education with garden workshops and sustainability talks. The produce harvested from our garden will be open to residents of our neighborhood free of charge. Our plan is to offer our produce during our open hours each week when produce has been harvested. A community garden at our building will be a tangible reminder of how we want to support our neighbors in flourishing. So often our community must choose simply surviving and we hope our building and our community garden in particular can be a source of flourishing for our neighborhood.
This garden will be a place where families can learn and participate together. Parents and children and grandparents and friends and neighbors can all learn to build something beautiful and fruitful together. We can’t think of something that would create more beauty than a community garden full of flourishing fruits and vegetables created by a community that chose to flourish instead of simply survive. |
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