Sorry YSPers, I’ve been visiting family in the South, or as T.I. calls it: the “dirty dirty” for like a week. Our Thanksgiving fundraiser, Eatin’ Good in the Hood didn’t exactly meet our expectations. However, it was still a huge success. While we were only able to raise about 14% of our goal, we were still able to feed 5 families. That’s 25% of our goal! This is because we estimated each Thanksgiving dinner at $40, but we were actually able to feed each family... more
Update: Eatin’ Good in the ‘Hood was a success! Read more… As I mentioned in a previous post, I spent a good portion of my Sunday watching football. But a few hours before that, I was sitting in church. My pastor (Russ) is like a mirror, in the sense that he’s awesome at showing everyone an accurate portrait of themselves. He’s been talking a lot about bettering our community lately, and Sunday was a punch in the gut. He made me realize that I haven’t been doing my part to... more
