You may have seen some posts about the start of a new food program and fundraising efforts, we still have more to share.

First, we have a new program starting here in Oshawa, Not Just A Food Program that will start in May.

The great news is that we have our fundraising platform now complete and ready to start with ongoing fundraising efforts. We have some great plans to help with fundraising efforts for other small Oshawa-based groups/organizations. You can find a list of all the Fundraising Products available for fundraising efforts here in Oshawa. 

Visit our The Basics Fundraising With Us to learn more. Just Oshawa is a hyperlocal network and part of our plan shortly is to have local artists who would like to participate in fundraising efforts in Oshawa to be able to list some of their products for fundraising efforts. We will be posting more about this in a future Newsletter Update, we wanted to share a little of our plans with the fundraising products. 

In the coming days, you will start to notice we will be seeking local small businesses that would like to help raise awareness of the various fundraising efforts we will have. Through a combination of print/social media posts, we will expand our reach and engagement for all of our efforts with full promotions for our signature listings. This will be an ongoing expansion, adding more Food/Drink Specials, Events, adding more small businesses with our listings in Bars/Restaurants/Venues,
Small Businesses, Artist Marketplace, and Groups/Organizations. It will be free for Oshawa small businesses to have their business listed with us in the appropriate sections, this will always be the case.

We also wanted to you know that we will be starting our first draws, these draws will be free, just for being a member of our Just Oshawa group. We love to give back, we are very thankful for your support and the support of the efforts to assist those most in need. All draws will need to be picked up/delivered in Oshawa, depending on the prizes, you may find some are in digital formats and are for our Oshawa members.

LIFE - Love Is For Everyone

We have a lot of great news to share, our new group for Just Oshawa, your hyperlocal network for Oshawa. We have started to migrate all the content from our old website to this network. This will allow us to not only allow members to join with basic profiles but also help us reduce spam and unwanted content. We have additional abilities to allow the admin to control specific groups bringing greater privacy to the work with those most in need we do.  We require all members to act with love and compassion for all, we take this seriously and will ban anyone not participating with love for all. Love is about acceptance, and celebrating our differences, this is a simple truth that guides us with all our activities. Want to learn more about this, visit our LIFE - Love Is For Everyone group. 

Most content is public and anyone can visit the website but only members can access the My Page content or Members Pages, and only members can join the conversations and add content. 

All listings are free for Oshawa small businesses, to learn more about the benefits of the free listings, visit our Social Media Collective Marketing, and for more detailed info visit our SMCM page. We will be adding more content to this section as we go that will include upcoming events.

With Just Oshawa, we maintain our signature Food/Drink Specials and Weekly Events listings, and with this new group for Just Oshawa, we have a greater set of options to help you discover the content that interests you most. We added a Daily Option and a section for Categories that we hope will help you easily find the content you seek. In the coming days, we will be adding the 30+ venues already listed and updated then adding more as we reach out to more Oshawa venues. We are also starting to update and add the Oshawa events that are weekly first then will start adding other 1 off events found in Oshawa. Once this work is complete we will add and start to promote along with methods to send us details to add your Oshawa events to our listings.  

Our Free Meals option was the first section we completed, for more than 5 years we have maintained these free meals in Oshawa list. By adding the Daily search option and the by-meal type we know this will be a valuable tool to assist those most in need, more and more find themselves with food insecurities and we hope this will be helpful.

You will start to see more and more of our Oshawa Connections being added to the following listings: Bar/Restaurant/Venue, Oshawa Artist Marketplace, Group/Organization, and Small Businesses. One of the improvements we made was that we have a Downtown option with each category. You will find that as we add more content you will start to see more and more categories added. All content is verified to be in Oshawa, we do not post or share content that is not in or from Oshawa. We know how frustrating it can be to find Oshawa content, many of the groups say Oshawa but you find content across the Durham Region or other communities, just know that when we add content to Just Oshawa we verify the content to be Oshawa content, it that simple we are hyperlocal for Oshawa and maintain that objective at all times. 

We will leave this update with the knowledge that we have started adding to the Pics In Oshawa and will find a variety of images and you can select from not just type of pics like Butterflies, and Landscapes but also the option by date taken. Again we verify that all images have been taken in Oshawa and the photographer's name is included with each pic. This will give you an idea that shortly we will be adding different photographers to the pics taken in Oshawa. 

In the coming weeks, you will see posts about the LIFE Community Project, LIFE, Fundraising, and FIFE sections when we have these sections completed. Watch for more news as we complete the work and start the various projects/programs.

LIFE - Love Is For Everyone