The 100 x $100 Cornerstone Club: Nurturing the Future

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What happens when people pool their energy and resources in support of a vision?

Dreams start to take shape.

We are humbled to have launched our first fundraising campaign and find that so many people in our community are willing to put their trust in our vision – a vision for a dedicated maternity resource center focused on improving the health and wellbeing of Richmond’s childbearing families.

Because Nurture is in the start-up phase of organizational development, we don’t yet have an extensive track record. Though we have taken small, well measured steps toward our vision of a dedicated maternity center through the launch of our first pre- and post-natal yoga classes and our first professional development event this month, we can’t tell our donors that $100 will provide x number of services for x number of people. We’re simply not there . . . . yet. Our work is still foundational in nature. So we are truly grateful to our first donors for putting your faith in our efforts.

To put our dream in motion – to be able to provide programs and services, to develop community engagement projects that improve the systems that serve our childbearing families, we need to have a solid financial underpinning. It takes money in the bank to be able to commit to a lease (which would enable us to launch more classes), purchase necessary insurance, pay qualified instructors to provide services, or provide scholarships so that those services are available to childbearing families at every economic level.

It takes people who are willing to help us build a strong and durable infrastructure that will allow our vision to flourish over the long haul. Willing to assist us in doing the heavy lifting that is a necessary part of any beginning.

Our 100 x $100 donors are those people.

We cannot thank you enough for being the cornerstones of our organization.