Building communities of care, capability, and collective thriving.
Through mutual aid, community gatherings, and nonprofit capacity-building
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We help neighbors meet urgent needs, create space for meaningful civic conversation, and provide sustainable support for small organizations with big missions.
The 3 ways we work
A story-driven neighbor-to-neighbor platform that connects individuals and families experiencing financial hardship with community members ready to help.
A public gathering space that brings together nonprofit leaders, neighbors, educators, advocates, and citizens around the work of civic life.
A shared support hub that uplifts the small non-profit employee and client experience, by creating a more efficient, effective, and engaged organization.
Why Us. Why Now.
Non-profits solve problems too complex for corporates, too urgent for government, and too profitless for investors — and too unjust and too existential to ignore. Yet many non-profits operate with limited infrastructure, rising workforce strain, and growing financial and operational complexity.
At the same time, fragmented communities themselves are disconnected from the realities nonprofits navigate: the urgent needs of neighbors, the pressures on altruistic staff, the eagerness of volunteers, the goodwill and big gaps from funders, and the human stories beneath them.
The Giving Foundation stands in that gap.
Through The Giving Wall, we help communities and caseworkers respond directly and quickly to urgent financial needs that grants miss and the safety net cannot support. We’re a “Yes”when every other road presents a “No.”
Through Many Hands Live, we create spaces where everyone — nonprofit leaders, neighbors, educators, advocates, electeds, and citizens — can better understand the issues of our time, and live the work of community care.
And through The Giving Workplace, we help small nonprofits clarify strategic direction, strengthen internal systems, adopt and upskill technologies, teach shared leadership practices, and create engaged employee experiences that sustain their missions over time.
Together, these three programs of The Giving Foundation 501(c)(3) help build communities of care, capability, and collective thriving.
Impact.
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Healthy non-profits create healthy communities.
The Giving Workplace
Creating better employee experiences across the full journey of nonprofit work, from hiring and onboarding to growing, guiding, and living a well-supported life.
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Our Team
Becky Lakin
Becky Lakin is an employee experience strategist, adult educator, and nonprofit leader whose work sits at the intersection of community wellbeing, organizational culture, and ecosystem thriving. Her leadership experience includes roles in people and culture, corporate citizenship, and creative communications, alongside teaching graduate and professional programs within Arizona State University’s College of Global Futures and Conservation.
Jason Ashlock
Jason Ashlock is an organizational development executive whose work has spanned large enterprises, startups, and nonprofits across leadership, culture, communication, and transformation. His focus is helping organizations build extraordinary cultures that support meaningful performance and human flourishing.
Diamond Walton
Eleanor's background spans education, coaching, and creative development. With a strong focus on process and progress, Eleanor helps learners move from where they are to where they want to be—one step at a time.
Our Board
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