Friends for Youth is very appreciative of this sweet donation that enables our organization to provide our youth with mentoring services and enrichment activities. Thank you for making a difference!

We are immensely grateful for your generous donation. The items you purchased will be used to advance our cause, to provide shower services to homeless in San Francisco. Every item is needed and holds a lot of value for our organization. We are so happy to have you as our supporter and would like to assure you that your generous gesture is making a difference.

It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless. – L.R. Knost Do GOOD! Be #GOODdler!

7 tips for building more empathetic donor-doer engagement (By Simon Stumpf & Ash Rogers): E: Everybody needs somebody.The idea of “donor dependency” usually refers pejoratively to nonprofit behavior. SFF, however, believes it is equally dependent on partners like Ashoka (the “doers”). The foundation values the interdependence between funders and doers, and believes that it is essential to building strong, reciprocal relationships. Instead of pretending that organizations[...]

Lise, we are immensely grateful for your generous donation. The socks you purchased will be used to advance our cause. Every item is needed and holds a lot of value for our organization. We are so happy to have you as our supporter and would like to assure you that your generous gesture is making a difference.

Home is where the people are that you love most Enjoy your home! #gooddler    

We are immensely grateful for your generous donation. The socks you purchased will be used to advance our cause. Every item is needed and holds a lot of value for our organization. We are so happy to have you as our supporter and would like to assure you that your generous gesture is making a difference.

We are immensely grateful for your donation. The socks you purchased will be used to advance our cause. We are participating in Project Homeless Connect on Wednesday 8/20. Every item is needed and holds a lot of value for people. We are so happy to have you as our supporter and would like to assure you that your generous gesture is making a difference.

This is so cool that you picked us to help! Your generosity is appreciated and your purchase is valued. We would love to share with you how items from this wish list are used. We also would love to connect with you and keep you updated on the work we do. Lets stay in touch!

We are immensely grateful for your generous donation. The items you purchased will be used to advance our cause. Every item is needed and holds a lot of value for our organization. We are so happy to have you as our supporter and would like to assure you that your generous gesture is making a difference.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! We are super excited to have your support. We would not be able to achieve our goal of getting the items that are on our wishlist if it wasn’t for people like you, who are willing to help. We want to assure you that your gesture was noticed and is highly appreciated.

How big is the event? The World Games will bring 7,000 athletes and 3,000 coaches from 177 countries to Los Angeles to compete in the largest Los Angeles sporting event since the 1984 Summer Olympics, which will take place July 25-August 2, 2015. Toyota announced an inspiring news that the world’s largest automaker is now sponsoring the world’s most inspiring athletic event, the Special Olympics World Games Los Angeles 2015. The organizing committee will get to use 400 Toyota[...]

Kait, we are immensely grateful for your generous donation. The items you purchased will be used as intended, to socialize our pets. Every gift item is needed and holds a lot of value for our organization. We are so happy to have you as our supporter and would like to assure you that your generous gesture is making a difference.

It is with the highest level of gratitude that we write to you, Carol. From the bottom of our hearts we would like to thank you for such a generous donation to our organization. We are fortunate to have you as a supporter of our cause and will be happy to share with you stories of how the items you purchased are being used.

On Saturday, August 16, 2014, GOODdler organizes and sponsors the second annual SF2Truckee Bike Ride to help one of its donees, Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe to meet its needs.   Team California89 member Seva Fridman will ride his bicycle from the South end of San Francisco Golden Gate bridge to the Downtown Truckee in a grueling ONE DAY push. The ride is estimated at about 240 miles long, over 16,000ft of climbing and more than 14,000(!)[...]

We first heard about Malala Yousafzai in October of 2012. She was all over the news, shown as a victim of a gunman who fired a few shots at her in the school bus in Northwest Pakistani district of Swat. Miraculously, she survived the assassination attempt.  In the days and months following the attack she became “the most famous teenager in the world”. She was only 15 at the time of the attack and there were many people who have been attacked in that part of the world on the daily[...]

How did you enjoy your last shower? Did you even think about it? But for a homeless getting clean is the challenge. We met at a historic The Women’s Building, in the heart of Mission District in San Francisco.“It was a first true coworking space for women-led businesses in San Francisco”, said Doniece Sandoval, a beautiful, youthful looking woman who, as we were pleasantly surprised, was a founder of Lava Mae, a unique non-profit that takes on[...]

Who did you want to be when you were a child? Did you have a dream of one day becoming an astronaut, a ballerina, NBA player, a teacher? Most of us had some pretty fancy desires that were fuelled by the adventures of heroes from popular shows. When I first heard that a 10 year old girl Stacy* wanted to clean airplanes when she grows up, I couldn’t  believe it. What? To clean airplanes? Yes! Stacy, a shy little girl from a single parent family was just recently assigned a mentor by Friends[...]

We are ecstatic! Thank you for your interest in our organization and your purchase. Every penny you spent on the goods goes toward achieving our goals. Nothing will be wasted. Every item on our list is super needed. Your purchase is highly appreciated and valued.

As we are heading into a long holiday weekend, we want you to have some fun. We love when celebrities use their work to promote good causes. Shakira, who is well known for her philanthropic work did it again. She teamed up with a yogurt brand Activia to create a fun video to support the World Food Program (WFP) and to communicate its work tackling world hunger. Premiered in May, it celebrates the world’s passion for World Cup 2014. Here it is:  “La La La (Brazil 2014)”. Enjoy! You[...]