When you start your own nonprofit it is so important to find contacts to further your business. This way you can serve more people and you can get the word out about what you are trying to do and who you are trying to serve. I met Zachary Wolfson because we were the two honorees from Tennessee for the Prudential Spirit of Community Award. Before we got on the plane I was researching him so I would know about my co-honoree. On the plane, we quickly hit it off as we started discussing our different businesses and lives. Who would have thought that we would become good such good friends!
Since May of 2018, we have kept in touch as he went off to college. Threads of Care (TOC), Zachary’s business, has been passed down to two other people since he graduated. Threads of Care is an LLC that is in all the Williamson County Schools. They help raise clothing items for the less fortunate in our county and other surround counties. By having the club in the schools, they are able to further their outreach.
The past two years TOC has helped with our Christmas Dreams event by providing hot chocolate for our friends. They also have helped pass out the items we give out downtown to the homeless. This year I was told they did not have a TOC chapter at my high school, Ravenwood. Since I already have my own club, Echos for Hope at Ravenwood, I decided at first just to donate all the clothes we had collected to TOC. But then I got to thinking about how I could start a TOC chapter at Ravenwood. My heart was filled with joy as Ravenwood donated over 30 bags of clothes totaling over 700 items to help our surrounding communities.
Another club isn’t so bad! We are helping so many people and are so excited just to further our outreach even more! It is amazing what can be accomplished by teens working together to make a difference in our community.
