SSS w/ Cans for Hope Ending Reflection

The Shimmer Sparkle Shine Project wanted to combine efforts with Cans for Hope to create events and fundraising  Through the process I wanted to focus on Working Collaboratively With Others and Engaging an Issue of Global Importance. 

One thing Barb (director of Cans for Hope) stressed was that to have a strong community all groups and organization need to work together. We may have different missions but some part of our message overlaps together, but overall we have one goal; improve our community. Strong alliances contribute to this, so we must work together. By working with Barb , we decided to organize a can drive and speggatti dinner. The spegetti dinner is in late June and the can drive is in April. With the can drive we want to use Cans for Hope's resources and our mission to donate to the Yellow Ribbon Project. The Yellow Ribbon Project is an organization that helps with suicide prevention because the organization was started from a victim's parents. Our 3 message go together, only engaging in an issue of global importance. Cans for Hope's wants to decrease the number of sex traffickers and help rehabilitate victims of sex trafficking. The Shimmer Sparkle Shine Project wants to raise the sense of self worth among girls. Victims of sex trafficking are induced with a low sense of worth, and a low sense of worth can lead to dramatic decisions such as committing suicide (incorporating the Yellow Ribbon Project's mission). This shows how we have different missions but we can still work together to help the overall issue of global importance to build a stronger community.

Our spegatti dinner in partnered with Cans for Hope will be a combined fundraiser for both of our organizations. The theme will be independence, and since the dinner will take place around the 4rth of July the theme couldn't be more perfect.  The focus won't only be on independence of our country, but independence from others control over our thoughts and choices. This provides lead-way for both organization's messages. Planning this together has already been an interesting process as we have to make sure no organization oversteps the other. We also have different connections and different networks that we can and are bringing forth to create the most successful fundraiser we can.