April 2023 - Womens History Month celebration, Women in STEM trivia and 2 coding workshops

Jan - March 2023 - Baking fundraiser for Sankara Healthcare, $800, 200+ baked goodies

2022-2023 - Continued sandwich weekly drop offs for homeless and recruited team of 10+ youth volunteers

Oct - Dec '22 - Fundraised $600 baked over 150 goodies for Sukarya

Sept '22 - Redmond school food break box program baked 100+ cookies muffins and FIRST collaboration with a youth volunteer and raise $400.

Aug '22 - Nov '22 - Baking Fundraiser to help girls in low income communities in rural India, Sukarya non-profit.

Aug '22 - National Book Lovers Day. STEM Book fundraiser to help at risk children in WA state through Page Ahead. $100

Aug '22 - FIRST in person Summer Baking workshop to raise funds for underserved girls in India, Asha for Education. 6 kids, 2 hours, $400.

July '22 - Intro to STEM and Python coding workshop with 17 sign ups.

Jan - Present - Ongoing weekly sandwich drives to help homeless in Seattle.

March '22 - Conducted 3 coding workshops for underserved kids (10 sign ups)

Nov - Jan '22 - Multiple baking fundraisers raising $1200 supporting multiple non-profits in India and Redmond, WA

March - Present - Ongoing meals served for homeless and underserved populations.

Nov 2021 - Multiple STEM workshops impacting 20+ youth.

August 2021 - Book drive Fundraiser $200  to help 20+ underserved kids in Rescue Team Kenya nonprofit mission

July 2021 - Present - Ongoing workshops to teach STEM Concepts, Coding, Baking as a science and art, Live Baking workshops. 

June - July 2021 - Baking funraiser to help raise funds for underserved girls education in India. Baked 150+ goodies and raised $1200!

March 2021 - Started a Youth to Youth initiative to provide meals and baked goodies to a local youth homeless shelter and 25+ youth volunteers already signed up to serve 20+ meals!

March 2021 - Awarded a Grant of $250 to help the underserved homeless youth with Immediate clothing needs during winter  

January 2021 - Present - Ongoing Baked Goodies and meals for Youth Nonprofits 100+ cookies baked for homeless shelter meal

November - December 2020 - Baking Fundraiser  

$2800 and 300 cookies baked!

$750 gift cards given to local high school PTSA for underserverd children to celebrate the holidays during pandemic times. $2050 given to support homeless youth at Cocoon House and also donated 50 cookies for their christmas eve meal dessert!

Virtual Workshops: COVID-19 YEAR OF 2020

July 2020 - Present: FREE workshops (Baking & Art DIY, STEM Coding Workshop)  Donations: $750, 200+ Youth reached!!!

July 2020: Virtual Bike/Walk/Run  Donations raised to support unclaimed children in India at Adrutha Childrens Home: $1500, 26 Families!

June 2020 (First Global nonprofit fundraiser): First virtual baking workshop (COVID-19) to raise funds to help support unclaimed children in India at Adrutha Childrens Home $600, 25 Youth

August 2020: Friends of Africa for Education - Nonprofit providing AIDS, orphans and other at risk children education in Africa

Thanks to generous donors helped sponsor few children in need by raising $200

May 2020 - July 2020 : Feeding the Hungry in our school district during the unprecedented COVID-19 Pandemic 

Collected $2000 to help the kids in our school district during the COVID-19 pandemic to not go hungry especially in the underserved communities and also to help with mental health and other educational programs.

The donation of funds to LWSF (Lake Washington Schools Foundation) to support families experiencing food insecurity is crucial because educators are constantly supporting learners whose ability to focus on academics is impacted by food insecurity. We cannot imagine how hard it is for a student to focus on math or science when worrying about their next meal! LWSF funds will support multiple projects 

• Balance in Mind has a new slate of offerings noted below and continues to provide students and parent educational resources about youth mental wellness.
• Pantry Packs has distributed weekend free meals with extra precautions and more frequent deployment.

September 2019 - January 2020 -- BAKING for a Cause!

We made 800 organic cookies and delivered them to friends. 100% proceeds went to Kinder Konnection supporting children in underserved communities for education raising $4,200! Please see our 'Testimonials' page for wonderful positive notes by our friends!

February 2019

Water access now project via CampKindness to help women in Africa by making bags for them in villages by cutting out 50 shirts. Unique creative way to help support women.

December 2018

Thanksgiving (our tradition of Giving) Fundraiser to homeless youth. Shoes for youth ages 5-12 via CampKindnessCounts. Thanks to our community friends, together we collected about 60 pairs of shoes (~$500) for donations. Collected several basic supplies for http://cocoonhouse.org/index) $500 

November 2018

Making mindful lovies for foster kids (Camp Kindness Counts) 

Vanesha spent few hours gluing and stuffing of polyfill for some mindful lovies we are donating to foster children. There were about 150 of them pretty ones

September 2018

Cookout (Mexican brunch donation)

We had the opportunity to help friends from RainyDayChefs in their wonderful initiative of 'Heal with Meal' by donating a Mexican fiesta brunch for FOY(Friends of Youth non-profit) on Sept 15. Check out their latest blog to experience the cookout! - https://www.rainydaychefs.com/monthly-cookouts. Big shoutout to such inspiring girls who are doing so much to give back with their creative talents and we were fortunate to help them out with their initiative and can't wait to do more of these

2018 -- Adopted an orphaned elephant in Africa (Kenya)

We had a wonderful opportunity to explore the Africa continent on vacation. We love wildlife so visited the Elephant park in Kenya and we were so touched by the stories of poaching and orphaned animals and wanted to do our part. We read the story of Malkia and wanted to adopt her right away.

2017 -- Holiday Fundraiser 

With the help of a generous community we raised $3000. Thank you!

From The Sophia Way, for 2017:

112 women have been housed – a 320% increase from last year

412 women have been served at the Day Center – a 35% increase from last year

Day Center operation hours have increased by 85% since 2015

70 women have stayed at Sophia's Place – a 4% increase from last year

For the last 7 weeks, 95 women have had a safe, warm place at our Winter Shelter

November 2016

Thanksgiving Fundraiser with help of a generous community of givers we raised close to $2000 (Cocoon House, Sophia Way, Safe Haven)