Support the causes you believe in, even when others do not.
Innsena donated 16% of our 2024 profits and donated 671 recorded hours of staff time to charitable causes.
I'm very open on the internet that I'm a capitalist. BECAUSE, when you have money, you can fund the things you care about.
As is the case for Leslie and me and the Innsena team, it's funding on-the-ground scrappy organizations who are making a real impact in the communities around them.
While we do sometimes fund larger initiatives, like we did with CancerX last year as its largest financial supporter, we prefer finding people out in the wild who are doing what we have done with our businesses: built something you've dreamed about for a long time from scratch, cooking with the ingredients you have, and when you win--giving back as much as possible.
Our favorites? One is Project Hope for Women and Children, a part of the Marshall Health Network in Huntington, WV, aka the City of Solutions. We now sponsor TWO apartments for this incredible program offering support for women and their children as they walk on the path toward recovery from opioid use disorder. We are honored to be a very small part of the team alongside Lyn O'Connell, Ph.D, LMFT, Jan Rader, Sonia Chambers and basically the whole city.
And this year we're proud to support Boston Community Pediatrics, founded by Dr. Robyn Riseberg. Robyn's organization is the first nonprofit, pediatric private practice of its kind in Massachusetts. She founded the practice to actually DEMONSTRATE what equity in pediatric care looks like. She believes all of Boston’s children deserve to be healthy – not just those whose parents can afford it. Thank you to Darshak Sanghavi for introducing us to BCP. We're proud to amplify their efforts.
And of course, our team continues to support Zorya Foundation's mission to keep healthcare workers in the workforce by providing cash childcare grants. I also donate a large portion of my own income to Zorya and donate all of my non-Innsena time running it as its founder and CEO.
As Leslie's post detailed yesterday, our team supports organizations in climate and health, reducing recidivism, supporting childcare for healthcare workers, maternal and infant health and mental health. Do you see that I typed in keywords above that might get a government program DOGE'd overnight? Yes, but it doesn't matter, because we are private citizens at a private company supporting initiatives we care about--and God Bless America, we are free. I suggest you all do the same.
Being able to direct your money WHERE YOU WANT is one of the beautiful things about our country--if we all do the right thing instead of buying yachts, or whatever. But that attitude starts with you. Lead by example.
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." - Dr. Suess
