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 ● Women For Women  The mission is breathtakingly simple: to help women in war-torn regions rebuild their lives. Sponsors “adopt” a specific woman for just $27 per month (which includes funding for direct aid, rights education, job skills training and small business development) so that the beneficiaries can move toward self-sufficiency. American and European women are so blessed to have the basic rights that we do and it breaks my heart that there are women on this planet who labor daily under oppressive, poverty-stricken regimes without the promise that I enjoyed as a birthright. Zainab Salbi, the founder of Women For Women, helped an astounding 30,000 women in 2005 in Afghanistan, Congo, Rwanda and Sudan. With our assistance, she’ll be helping eight more this year…One of my “missions” with Bella Luccè is to help empower women worldwide and to encourage both corporate and personal philanthropy. With that in mind, Bella Luccè has adopted eight ladies through Women For Women- that’s one for each full-time staff member at this company. It’s our hope that the women will benefit immediately through our funding, and that my company can help foster relationships between Bella Luccè staff and the individual beneficiaries in a way that impacts both women and encourages our staff to perpetuate the philanthropy on a personal level. I am incredibly optimistic that good things will come from this in so many ways and look forward to seeing “our women” overcome the atrocities of war and blaze new paths for themselves. As this company grows, each new employee will be paired with a new partner through Women For Women, so we’ll be working for ourselves and a “sister” somewhere in the world. ● Seeds of Compassion This groundbreaking foundation, based in Seattle, seeks to positively impact the lives of children by arming them with the valuable tools of compassion and peace-building. From their website: “[We are a] broad–based collaboration to bring concrete public awareness, public will, and an empowering call to action to address our local and global need for the social and emotional well–being of children. We see this as part of the emerging global Compassion Movement. As an outcome, we seek to bring social and emotional learning into families, to caregivers, and to schools so that all who touch the lives of children have the tools and empowerment to provide the foundation for kinder and more compassionate children, communities, and society.” Bella Luccè is proud to be an official sponsor of the Dalai Lama’s April 2008 visit to Seattle in conjunction with Seeds of Compassion’s inaugural event. The Dalai Lama spent the week meeting with a cooperative of local and national leaders, spiritual leaders of all faiths, the local community and children from the Pacific Northwest in an effort to positively impact the community and help foster the seeds of compassion within all of us. Dave Matthews hosted The Concert For Compassion on April 11, 2008 to kick off the visit, with all proceeds earmarked to benefit the effort. Lela and Jennifer attended the week’s events, both as participants and as representatives of Bella Luccè’s sponsorship. ● Farm Sanctuary Bella Luccè is blessed to process all of our incoming credit card transactions through Dharma Merchant Services, an ethically-minded company that donates 10% of our gross annual fees to the charity of our choice. Thanks to the generosity of Dharma Merchant Services, Bella Luccè has selected Farm Sanctuary as our 2008 charity partner. Farm Sanctuary is the nation’s leading farm animal protection organization. Their 175-acre farm, founded in 1986, is home to hundreds of rescued animals who live out their days of bliss in the rolling hills of upstate New York. In addition to the rescue of abused and abandoned animals, the organization also focuses on advocacy and education through various outreach programs and legislative sponsorships. ● SisterCare Bella Luccè has, for several years, donated surplus product to SisterCare, a local shelter and rehabilitation shelter for victims of domestic abuse. If a label isn’t quite straight, if a jar was jostled in shipment but returned to us essentially unharmed, or if we have superfluous bottles of a recently discontinued or seasonal item, it winds up in the hands of the these women, in hopes of bringing a bit of respite and a dash of pampering as they seek to rebuild their lives and homes. Bella Luccè looks forward to continuing our support in 2008…
Past Charity PartnershipsTo date, Bella Luccè has shared products, donated time and made cash donations totaling more than $60,000 with the following organizations:
If you are aware of an organization that might be a good candidate for our Giving Back program, please drop us a line at givingback@bellalucce.com - we'll be reviewing submissions for new charity partners in 2009! *Select images property of and provided by Trickle Up. Used with permission.
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