A local organization, Second Harvest of the Big Bend, a food bank, is getting a piece of her donation. They have not said yet how much it is, but did say it is the largest the nonprofit has ever received. Second Harvest is an organization that does much good around here and deserves all the help it can get.
That's awesome, I volunteered a bit with Second Harvest in Madison where I use to live. They're one of the most locally helpful foodbanks or community help orgs, with no religious strings attached like Salvation Army or the church-based foodbanks and services typically available.
Goodwill also claims non-profit status still, but they pay their execs millions and give them annual bonuses, besides doing very little to help support the towns and communities they are located in. Store profits/take are not reinvested in the community. It all goes back to corp for re-disbursement. My ex worked for one of the Goodwill locations in Madison and I learned a lot about their shit corporate policies in that time.
Goodwill's main focus is supposedly helping to find employment for people with Down Syndrome, but the reality is that many of those newly-found workers are exploited to some degree with slave wages (somehow they can offer them less-than-minimum, unfortunately) and longer hours than the program is designed for, etc.
There are worse places to donate to, sure...but there are far better in my opinion as well.
She's always loved gardens. Even when we lived overseas in a desert she was always making sure things stayed green and productive. I've been told the garden is actually closer to 3/4s of an acre. Still a lot for someone in their 60s who has had both knees replaced. She's got grit, one of the many reasons I'm so proud of her.
Yeah that is pretty cool, still holds onto where she came from and 'elbow grease'. She could obviously just hire someone to do the work for her if she only wanted a producing garden. A one-acre garden is a good amount of work.
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