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💛 Redefining Fundraising

For Everyone, Not Just Those Who Can Afford It

For years, we’ve seen how many traditional fundraising efforts follow the same pattern —
🎟️ Buy a ticket.
🧺 Bid on an auction item.
🛍️ Purchase a product where a small percentage is donated to the cause.

While these efforts are well-intentioned, they often come with an invisible wall — participation only for those who can afford it.

For someone already struggling to pay bills or keep food on the table, these forms of fundraising become another reminder of what they can’t be part of. The very efforts meant to bring people together can unintentionally create division — a quiet separation between those with means and those without.

This isn’t just a financial issue — it’s emotional, too. It can create resentment, frustration, and the painful feeling of exclusion from something meant to be rooted in compassion. It reflects the growing pattern of “pay-to-play” that has touched nearly every part of our lives — even acts of giving.

🌱 A New Way Forward

We believe fundraising can — and should — look different.

We’re shifting away from the idea that financial participation defines community value. Instead, we’re focusing on raising awareness through participation — not payment.

Starting soon, the ILFJL Collective will begin Monthly Awareness Efforts that bring people together around compassion, inclusion, and community connection — without cost or competition.

Here’s how it works:

• 💛 No ticket sales. No highest bidder. No cost to enter.
  
  
• 🏪 Local small businesses partner with us to host free draws, featuring items donated or sourced through community-based fundraising efforts.
  
  
• 🎨 Products, art, crafts, or services come directly from local creators, makers, and entrepreneurs — keeping everything community-rooted.
  
  
• 📋 Entry is open to anyone who:
  
  
  • Fills out a draw form at a participating establishment,
    
    
  • Volunteers in any local effort that month, or
    
    
  • Is part of the Not Just A Food Program.
    
    

Each draw will be hosted by the participating small business, with items displayed in-store and shared across our online platforms. We manage all content creation, promotions, and verification to ensure fairness and transparency — every effort done freely, with love at its core.

🏡 Built Within the Community, For the Community

These draws and awareness campaigns will highlight not only the cause — but the people, businesses, and organizations behind it.

Each small business benefits from new visibility and connection to local audiences. Each artist or maker gains recognition for their craft. Each participant becomes part of something larger — a movement where everyone has value, not just those who can spend.

We are also creating our own Fundraising Catalogue — a collection of community-made items where a portion of each sale supports ongoing initiatives. Every piece tells a story of compassion, connection, and shared effort.

❤️ The Bigger Vision

We’re not a charity. We’re an independent collective driven by love and compassion — building change from the ground up.

Every section, every program — from Not Just A Food Program to Just Oshawa — has been carefully developed over time to fit together like pieces of a larger vision. A vision that leads toward our long-term goal: LIFE Transitional Housing Project.

The ILFJL Collective has always stood for this truth:

💛 Love Is For Everyone.

And that’s exactly what this next step represents —
a return to unity, fairness, and community-based compassion.

Change takes time, but together, we’re creating a network that grows stronger through kindness — not cost.

Because real fundraising isn’t about how much money you give.
It’s about how much love you share.