From People To People
We work in a very simple way... making it easy for the donor and the beneficiaries. Here we explain to you how!
When you contact us, we coordinate a pick-up or drop off of your donations, be it clothes, items to sale, or cash.
Every donation is sorted out and items are assigned to the best-fitting project. In the image, you can see how 11 donated bags turned into an organized pile of donations to benefit 5 projects. So, 11 donations touched 5 projects!
Once we have sorted the donations, we channel them via our partners to people in need, tailoring the items you donate to the institutions we work with.
We are always looking around us for projects and people in need. Sometimes we find real needs that can not be solved with secondhand items. In this case, we run specific fundraisers.
For special projects (such as the sanitary packs for kids at Central Hospital or the industrial blender for Side by Side) we run online fundraisers and attend events. Anonymous donors contribute to the best of their possibilities and we, all together, make the project happen!
We also raise funds for all the projects we support by selling items that donors have brought to us such as baby cots, floating supports, baby carriers, coffee machines, etc.
Once the fundraiser is over, we implement the project and report back to the donors via the fundraiser channels. You will always have access to all the details! All the funds are 100% used on the implementation. We have 0% running costs, as we work on a volunteers basis.
Contact alicia@umbrella-initiatives.com to get more information on the project