"When you see a problem, and you do nothing, nothing ever gets any better!" ~Ken Nothnagel, CEO and Founder
We've chosen to do something!
"Everyone wants the same basic essential things.
We're not all as different as we think.
Life can be hard, but it can also be wonderful, magical, and full of creative abundance.
Helping others find their community of family and friends to help them reach that abundance is our goal.
After all, we're all just walking each other home!"
~Carrie Woodall, President and Founder
We live in a community with no lack of challenges! Our challenges define us. Some problems are harder than others.
We all choose our community. Community can be a combination of your family, your school, your friends, your neighborhood, your city, your state, your country, your gender, your ancestry, your job, your religion, anything that makes you feel connected to others.
Carrie and I started The Canary Foundation because we strongly believe that our community extends to all people, in all places, at all times.
Having experienced some pretty difficult problems in our lives, we asked ourselves, "How can we help others tackle difficult times?"
We have personal experience with poverty, food instability, homelessness, joblessness, teen parenthood, raising children, mental illness, learning and other disabilities, physical and emotional abuse, trauma, death, divorce, and of course, taxes!!
Taking stock of what we've learned, where we are in life, and what we have; we've decided we're going to help whoever we can, however we can, whenever we can!
Elevating communities, through the services, knowledge, and financial benefits we can provide!
"I do not agree with a big way of doing things. What matters is the individual. If we wait till we get numbers, then we will be lost in the numbers and we will never be able to show that love and respect for the person."
As quoted in Mother Teresa's Reaching Out In Love - Stories told by Mother Teresa, Compiled and Edited by Edward Le Joly and Jaya Chaliha, Barnes & Noble, 2002, p. 122