Wings of Change is spreading the word about the importance of butterflies and pollinators worldwide. We educate the community about how butterflies affect everything, including fire safety, drought tolerance, and our health.
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San Diego Gives 2023
September 7, 2023
San Diego Gives 2023
A year-round nonprofit sustainability project that culminates in a Day of Giving on Thursday, September 7 and Day of Service on Friday, September 8. We invite you to be Wings of Change with us. Donate through this link. Volunteer through this link.Â
Wings of Change is an organization dedicated to raising awareness about the critical role of butterflies in our ecosystem. We believe that by coming together, we can create a sustainable future for these tiny but vital creatures.
Pollinators, such as butterflies, bees, and birds, play a pivotal role in maintaining biodiversity and supporting our food supply. Sadly, these essential creatures are facing numerous challenges, including habitat loss, pesticide use, and climate change. Our mission at Wings of Change is to advocate for butterflies and spread the word about their importance to ensure a thriving and balanced natural world.
Our Day of Service Project
*Wings of Change will be creating a butterfly-friendly habitat at a the Fallbrook Post Office, a local bank or a dental office on our ‘SD Day of Service’ on 09/08/23. (Location still to be determined.) We are teaming up with a local professional in landscape design and utilizing our expert knowledge to create a butterfly haven at one of our most-frequented meeting place in Fallbrook! Volunteer through this link.Â
*Wings of Change is dedicated to educating the public with our ‘Butterfly of the Month’ program. Every month, we highlight a new butterfly, cultivate understanding about their host plant, and how to nurture each. We are are published in The Fallbrook Village News, provide educational videos, and host informational talks and seed giveaways in our community on a regular basis. Curriculum is specific to each month’s Butterfly of the Month and their host plant.
How Can You Help?
If you feel compelled to support our cause, please make a secure and straightforward donation through this fundraising portal to help us reach our goal of $50,000. This money will make a significant impact on our organization and we intend to use it to further our mission, spreading the word on the importance of butterflies.
Join Us on our day of service to beautify our local Fallbrook hub. Join us to install a drought tolerant butterfly habitat, you can volunteer through this link.
Here’s why your support can make a substantial impact:
Educating the Community:Â
With your donation, we can continue to organize educational programs and awareness campaigns that highlight the crucial role butterflies play in pollinating plants and enabling fruit and seed production. By spreading knowledge about their significance, we empower communities to act and protect these essential guardians of nature.
Establishing Butterfly/Pollinator Habitats:Â
Your contribution will help us create and maintain safe havens for butterflies and other pollinators alike. We aim to establish more pollinator-friendly gardens and butterfly-specific spaces, utilizing our expertise with native plant species to recreate natural habitat.
Collaborating for Change:Â
By joining us, you become part of a growing network of like-minded individuals and organizations working toward a common goal. Together, we can amplify our message, reach more people, and encourage positive changes for the benefit of butterflies, other pollinators, and our environment.
Fostering Sustainable Agriculture:Â
We recognize the crucial link between butterflies, pollinators, and agriculture. Your support enables us to work with local farmers and agricultural communities, promoting sustainable practices that protect both crops and the surrounding ecology.
Donate To Our Cause!
Together, we can inspire others to appreciate the significance of butterflies and other pollinators as well as how to take action to nurture and protect them. Your generosity, no matter the amount, will contribute to a brighter future for butterflies, our planet, and the delicate balance of nature.
Together we can all be Wings of Change and cultivate a world that thrives on the vibrancy and vitality of butterflies. Thank you for your time and consideration!
About SD GivesÂ
Mission
We ignite generosity, stimulate philanthropy, and foster a sustainable nonprofit sector. We connect more San Diegans to more local causes than ever before through innovative technology, learning opportunities, a 24-hour day of collective giving, volunteering, and more.
Vision
We envision an unparalleled region of giving — a San Diego County where community members are knowledgeable of community needs and the impactful responses of local nonprofits, helping each person’s generosity soar to its full potential.
Values
-
Operate from Abundance
Operating from a place of abundance, not scarcity, believing that philanthropy is not a zero-sum game and that resources are best invested in ideas that are inclusive, accessible, and ignite a passion in giving.
-
Connected to Community
Accountable to and connected with the communities we serve, believing that our ideas are improved by listening and responding to the needs of our stakeholders and that when making strategic decisions, we will be informed by the organizations and donors we serve and the funders who support our work.
- Equity in Action
With responsibility to actualize systems, practices, and services that create more equitable access to resources, acknowledging that structures of inequity exist in philanthropy. We apply multiple equity lenses to our decision-making and prioritize serving communities and individuals with less access to resources.
- Courage to Try
Strongly values and informed action over prolonged analysis. San Gives believes that the change we want to realize in our region requires courage, innovation, and calculated risk. Our team is reflective and persistent in pursuing results and strives to learn from our successes and our failures.
2023 Campaign Goals
- Raise at least $1.5 million for 350 nonprofits.
- Engage a minimum of 4,000 donors, with 40% new to the organizations they support.
- Serve at least 600 unique nonprofit professionals through at least 25 capacity building workshops.
- Provide mentoring opportunities to at least 70 nonprofits.
- Secure at least $75,000 for matched funds and giving day prizes.
- At least 75% of donors will report that the campaign positively affected their giving.
- At least 75% of participating nonprofits will report increased learning in areas of fundraising and marketing by the end of the campaign.
San Diego Gives 2023
A year-round nonprofit sustainability project that culminates in a Day of Giving on Thursday, September 7 and Day of Service on Friday, September 8. We invite you to be Wings of Change with us. Donate through this link. Volunteer through this link.Â
Wings of Change is an organization dedicated to raising awareness about the critical role of butterflies in our ecosystem. We believe that by coming together, we can create a sustainable future for these tiny but vital creatures.
Pollinators, such as butterflies, bees, and birds, play a pivotal role in maintaining biodiversity and supporting our food supply. Sadly, these essential creatures are facing numerous challenges, including habitat loss, pesticide use, and climate change. Our mission at Wings of Change is to advocate for butterflies and spread the word about their importance to ensure a thriving and balanced natural world.
Our Day of Service Project
*Wings of Change will be creating a butterfly-friendly habitat at a the Fallbrook Post Office, a local bank or a dental office on our ‘SD Day of Service’ on 09/08/23. (Location still to be determined.) We are teaming up with a local professional in landscape design and utilizing our expert knowledge to create a butterfly haven at one of our most-frequented meeting place in Fallbrook! Volunteer through this link.Â
*Wings of Change is dedicated to educating the public with our ‘Butterfly of the Month’ program. Every month, we highlight a new butterfly, cultivate understanding about their host plant, and how to nurture each. We are are published in The Fallbrook Village News, provide educational videos, and host informational talks and seed giveaways in our community on a regular basis. Curriculum is specific to each month’s Butterfly of the Month and their host plant.
How Can You Help?
If you feel compelled to support our cause, please make a secure and straightforward donation through this fundraising portal to help us reach our goal of $50,000. This money will make a significant impact on our organization and we intend to use it to further our mission, spreading the word on the importance of butterflies.
Join Us on our day of service to beautify our local Fallbrook hub. Join us to install a drought tolerant butterfly habitat, you can volunteer through this link.
Here’s why your support can make a substantial impact:
Educating the Community:Â
With your donation, we can continue to organize educational programs and awareness campaigns that highlight the crucial role butterflies play in pollinating plants and enabling fruit and seed production. By spreading knowledge about their significance, we empower communities to act and protect these essential guardians of nature.
Establishing Butterfly/Pollinator Habitats:Â
Your contribution will help us create and maintain safe havens for butterflies and other pollinators alike. We aim to establish more pollinator-friendly gardens and butterfly-specific spaces, utilizing our expertise with native plant species to recreate natural habitat.
Collaborating for Change:Â
By joining us, you become part of a growing network of like-minded individuals and organizations working toward a common goal. Together, we can amplify our message, reach more people, and encourage positive changes for the benefit of butterflies, other pollinators, and our environment.
Fostering Sustainable Agriculture:Â
We recognize the crucial link between butterflies, pollinators, and agriculture. Your support enables us to work with local farmers and agricultural communities, promoting sustainable practices that protect both crops and the surrounding ecology.
Donate To Our Cause!
Together, we can inspire others to appreciate the significance of butterflies and other pollinators as well as how to take action to nurture and protect them. Your generosity, no matter the amount, will contribute to a brighter future for butterflies, our planet, and the delicate balance of nature.
Together we can all be Wings of Change and cultivate a world that thrives on the vibrancy and vitality of butterflies. Thank you for your time and consideration!
About SD GivesÂ
Mission
We ignite generosity, stimulate philanthropy, and foster a sustainable nonprofit sector. We connect more San Diegans to more local causes than ever before through innovative technology, learning opportunities, a 24-hour day of collective giving, volunteering, and more.
Vision
We envision an unparalleled region of giving — a San Diego County where community members are knowledgeable of community needs and the impactful responses of local nonprofits, helping each person’s generosity soar to its full potential.
Values
-
Operate from Abundance
Operating from a place of abundance, not scarcity, believing that philanthropy is not a zero-sum game and that resources are best invested in ideas that are inclusive, accessible, and ignite a passion in giving.
-
Connected to Community
Accountable to and connected with the communities we serve, believing that our ideas are improved by listening and responding to the needs of our stakeholders and that when making strategic decisions, we will be informed by the organizations and donors we serve and the funders who support our work.
- Equity in Action
With responsibility to actualize systems, practices, and services that create more equitable access to resources, acknowledging that structures of inequity exist in philanthropy. We apply multiple equity lenses to our decision-making and prioritize serving communities and individuals with less access to resources.
- Courage to Try
Strongly values and informed action over prolonged analysis. San Gives believes that the change we want to realize in our region requires courage, innovation, and calculated risk. Our team is reflective and persistent in pursuing results and strives to learn from our successes and our failures.
2023 Campaign Goals
- Raise at least $1.5 million for 350 nonprofits.
- Engage a minimum of 4,000 donors, with 40% new to the organizations they support.
- Serve at least 600 unique nonprofit professionals through at least 25 capacity building workshops.
- Provide mentoring opportunities to at least 70 nonprofits.
- Secure at least $75,000 for matched funds and giving day prizes.
- At least 75% of donors will report that the campaign positively affected their giving.
- At least 75% of participating nonprofits will report increased learning in areas of fundraising and marketing by the end of the campaign.