AZ Giving

Hello! We are Masks4Arizona, a nonprofit organization made up of high school students from Tucson. Our mission is to raise funds to donate masks to our community, including hospitals, assisted living homes, dental offices, grocery workers, and the homeless population in order to help our community fight against COVID-19. In our first campaign, we raised $2745 which enabled us to purchase 2200 masks for hospitals and retirement communities in the Tucson area such as: 

• Banner - University Medical Center
• Tucson Medical Center
• Via...

By: Mary O'Brien Hillis
Phone: 480-343-7164
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Website: https://forwardmotionaz.org/

Despite common belief, not all Millennials grew up comfortably. Forward Motion co-founder, Amanda Miller, remembers the years she spent living paycheck to paycheck.

As a single mother, struggling to make ends meet in her hometown of Phoenix, Amanda vividly recalls making hard choices between putting gas in the car or buying food for dinner. Overdrawing her bank account, juggling payday loans, and nights spent worrying...

Caring for our senior family members during the coronavirus pandemic is essential. However, social distancing can put a damper on our ability to put their needs first without putting their health in jeopardy. Luckily, Senior Helpers, a premier provider of in-home senior care and companionship, has a list of ways you can help elderly loved ones maintain positive mental health during this pandemic.    

• Go easy on the apps: Social media tends to come with a lot of distractions that often prove to be frustrating, so when it comes to staying connected with an elderly...

I feel so blessed by the work I do as president and CEO of Arizona Helping Hands (AHH). Providing basic needs to make lives better for children in foster care, giving young boys a bed to sleep on after they’ve experienced abuse and neglect, providing a crib to a baby born addicted to meth, or celebrating a birthday of a teen who has never had a birthday celebration – the list is plentiful for WHY I choose to put my all into my daily job.

In these challenging days, I’ve asked my staff and our volunteers to share their WHYs. During periods like this, I think it helps to dig deeper and...