5 Reasons to Join ILFJL and Support the Just Oshawa Group

Joining ILFJL and becoming involved with the Just Oshawa group offers unique opportunities to make a significant impact within your local community. Here are five compelling reasons to become a member and engage with Just Oshawa:

1. Boost Local Business Visibility

Just Oshawa focuses on supporting small businesses by offering free marketing and promotion opportunities. As a member, you contribute to raising the profile of local enterprises, helping them reach a broader audience and increase their customer base. This support is crucial for the success and sustainability of small businesses, which are vital to a vibrant local economy.

2. Participate in Community-Driven Fundraising

By joining ILFJL and supporting Just Oshawa, you become part of a community-driven fundraising effort. The initiative provides small businesses with banner space and social media promotions to raise funds for local causes and community needs. Your involvement helps facilitate these campaigns, ensuring that funds are directed towards impactful projects and organizations in your area.

3. Foster Local Economic Growth

Supporting Just Oshawa means contributing to the economic health of your community. As a member, you help drive local commerce and create opportunities for job growth and economic development. By promoting and supporting small businesses, you play a role in strengthening the local economy and fostering a thriving, interconnected community.

4. Enhance Community Engagement and Collaboration

The Just Oshawa group encourages collaboration between businesses, residents, and local organizations. As a member, you’ll have opportunities to engage in community events, network with local leaders, and participate in collaborative projects that address community needs. This engagement fosters a sense of unity and collective purpose, enhancing the overall quality of life in Oshawa.

5. Support Ethical and Transparent Initiatives

ILFJL and Just Oshawa are committed to ethical practices and transparency in all their initiatives. By joining, you align yourself with a network that prioritizes integrity and genuine support for local causes. Your involvement ensures that efforts are directed towards meaningful, impactful projects and that the support provided to small businesses and community organizations is both effective and sincere.

Becoming a member of ILFJL and supporting the Just Oshawa group offers you the chance to make a tangible difference in your community. You’ll help boost local businesses, contribute to economic growth, and engage in collaborative efforts that drive positive change, all while supporting a network committed to ethical and impactful initiatives.

Supporting Oshawa’s Small Businesses and Organizations with Just Oshawa

At Just Oshawa, we’re dedicated to providing valuable benefits to local small businesses, groups, and organizations—completely free of charge. Our goal is to help you grow your brand and reach new audiences within the community.

We actively post content across more than 9 different social networks, giving you the advantage of having your business, group, or organization name appear in search results on these platforms. Even if you don’t have profiles on these networks, you’ll still benefit. We’ll post content using your name, a few key details, relevant hashtags, and a direct link to your listing on our website. Your profile will feature all your important contact information, including verified social media links, websites, and contact details like phone numbers and email addresses.

Free Listings for Oshawa’s Small Businesses and Organizations

We offer free listings for all Oshawa small businesses, groups, and organizations. We recognize the challenges posed by spam, fake profiles, and scams, so rest assured that all our listings are verified. We ensure that every listing represents a real business, group, or organization in Oshawa and that the content remains active, updating our database at least every six months. Listings that are no longer active will be removed.

Supporting Your Brand Without Financial Costs

We understand that many small businesses struggle to keep up with the rising costs of sponsored content and boosting posts. Often, these activities are reserved for special occasions due to the financial burden, while corporate entities continue to dominate regular advertising opportunities. Just Oshawa offers you an alternative—a way to regularly share your business logo and name with the Oshawa community without the financial strain. As our network grows, more people will benefit from the verified content we share, turning to our platform for trusted information about Oshawa.

Verified Content and Community Support

Just Oshawa’s content is not only verified but also designed to support our local community. We have a fundraising platform that keeps all efforts within Oshawa, benefiting local groups, organizations, and those most in need in our city.

We’re just getting started, with many long-term projects and programs in the works that will further benefit our Oshawa community. While most of our content is public for everyone’s benefit, becoming a member unlocks additional advantages. As a member, you’re required to act with love and compassion toward everyone. We have a zero-tolerance policy for inappropriate behavior, and we will not hesitate to remove anyone who fails to meet this standard. By joining, you acknowledge and agree to our guiding principle: "I understand that I will act with love and compassion for all within my use of this network."

Remember, our belief is simple: LIFE—Love Is For Everyone!

This Section Will Be Updated Regularly As Supporting Efforts Are Added!

This section will provide more details for each small business assisting our efforts here in Oshawa. The support can range from helping with building resources to helping with fundraising efforts. We are so grateful for the support of the amazing businesses with the beauty of the vision we are creating. This is our community, this is our city!

We encourage you to message us through any one of Just Oshawa's social media profiles or here on this network or e-mail us with any questions. We are more than happy to arrange a time/place in Oshawa to meet to learn more about any one of our efforts/programs/projects.

Itty Bitty Candles

We look forward to additional Itty Bitty Candles products for our ongoing fundraising efforts. 

Dyno Crystals

We are looking forward to adding more products from Dyno Crystals for our ongoing fundraising efforts.

LaundryHaven

We are grateful that LaundryHaven has made laundry services available for the LIFE Community Project in exchange for promotions through the Just Oshawa network.

Starting Point Massage And Esthetics

Many thanks to Starting Point Massage And Esthetics for having many of the fundraising products on display & sale within the spa in support of our efforts.

Are you an Oshawa small business that would like to suggest possible options or how your business can assist our efforts please connect with Just Oshawa or John.

LIFE - Love Is For Everyone

We have been making progress with a lot of the work we have been doing. As part of our programs/projects, fundraising is not the only way we have amazing Oshawa small businesses participating in our efforts. One of our goals is to help build resources to assist those most in need. 

With a growing reach and engagement for Just Oshawa, we have options to work with local small businesses. With an exchange of promotions across our extensive and growing social networks and banners within our website participants can assist with our efforts to build resources. 

LIFE Community Project has been creating assistance for those most in need here in Oshawa for many years. The creator John E Walker has been on the streets of Oshawa assisting those most in need for over 15 years now. The many years of experience have created a deep understanding of the needs and issues faced by the homeless, and marginalized and the struggles individuals face with food insecurities. The entire site has been built to create more options to support those most in need while raising awareness of small businesses.

Today are moving forward with more beautiful activities supporting our community of Oshawa! We want to welcome LaundryHaven who has joined the efforts to support the LIFE Community Project efforts in Oshawa. In exchange for providing promotions for his business, we will be able to add a new resource, laundry services! With the arranged agreement we have access to washing/drying without having to worry about taking funds from our fundraising efforts. 

With laundry services, we can provide an option for an individual within our Not Just A Food Program if it is needed to get the clothing washed/dried. As part of our Free Clothing program, all donated clothing is first washed and dried before being handed over to the person receiving the items. Having clean clothing helps with personal hygiene and maintaining a positive mental attitude. Part of our program is helping to eliminate issues faced with ongoing struggles, worrying about how to afford the money to pay for washing/drying when you do not even have money for food, we now have options. All-access to this service is managed and maintained by the LIFE Community Project and the LIFE Community Partners.

We are creative with our ability to offer promotions in exchange for helping build various resources. We will be seeking Oshawa small businesses that can provide haircut and style options, massage & esthetics options, and health or holistic options, message Just Oshawa or John to arrange a meeting to discover more about various options.

You will start to see more and more Oshawa small businesses starting to participate in our various activities. We have been making arrangements to make local small business products available for our ongoing fundraising efforts. We are looking for other amazing products that are made or provided in Oshawa, we are not looking for free products, we are looking for wholesale pricing for our fundraising efforts. The goal is to make sure that the business still makes money so that the effort is sustainable and available long term. If you are a local small business that makes or produces/has products and think you would be interested in learning more about our fundraising effort to support those most in need here in Oshawa message Just Oshawa or John.

We will be working on promotions in the coming days and you will see more additions to the various sections. With more than 24 venues with their Food/Drink Specials now listed it will be months for us to populate the more than 60+ venues. We have started work on the weekly events, and only 11 venues are listed currently, and will have many more in the coming weeks. We continue to add new images and images from previous years to our Pics In Oshawa, soon we will be opening up the option for Oshawa Photographers to add images and assist with awareness of their business/passion for sharing the beauty found in Oshawa. You can message John to learn more.

Watch for our posts about the start of our free draws for members of Just Oshawa, we have some great products planned for the draws including a large Himalayan salt lamp to mark the first 200 members of Just Oshawa group. All these draws have to be picked up or delivered in Oshawa, more details will be found when we start the promotions for the draws in the coming weeks.

In the coming weeks, we will be able to announce details about FIFE - Food Is For Everyone and the free plants being made available to members of our Just Oshawa group. The only way we can make the plants available for all is to freely give them for free. You can discover more about our efforts for options to improve an individual's overall health and well-being with the FIFE - Food Is For Everyone group. 

We have a busy month ahead with starting and implementing some of our projects/programs, so we have not decided to do an extra newsletter for this month yet. Best to keep an eye on the main website page and the Latest New Feeds. 

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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.

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