Start Giving Local
Community Inspired. Wellness Driven.
Mission
Start Giving Local is mission driven to improve community wellness through inclusive local community programs. Our mission: to support the greater social good by promoting community wellness with strategic programming designed to improve physical, mental, and financial health while fostering equity, inclusion, and innovation.
Ruling year
2019
Executive Director
Kelly O'connell
Main address
555 Anton Blvd STE 150
COSTA MESA, CA 92626 USA
EIN
47-5389986
NTEE code
Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (S12)
Other Recreation, Sports, or Leisure Activities N.E.C. (N99)
Leadership Development (W70)
IRS filing requirement
This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990-N.
Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Start Giving Local addresses 2 key problems: 1) Mental Health Support: Although people are more globally connected than ever before in history there is a growing problem with loneliness, depression and anxiety. Through our participation in fun runs, marathons, cycling events and other social nonprofit sponsored activities we hope to connect individuals from across communities to a larger connected network of people with shared interests and goals. 2) Community Well Being: Wealth disparity, health care access, and preventable disease have a significant impact on individual and community wellness. We create programming that helps individuals live high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death. This helps support healthier more sustainable communities.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Start Giving Local Volunteer Athlete Training Program
Our Volunteer Athlete Training Program is designed to connect, inspire & empower individuals fundraising for charity through their participation in endurance sports.
Unlike most Endurance Fundraising Programs our sponsored athletes have no fundraising minimum threshold and are provided with comprehensive fundraising tools and support. All athletes running on the Start Giving Local team have the ability to choose to represent a second charity partner organization and to fundraise to directly support their program efforts. We believe that by eliminating fundraising minimums and enabling individuals to leverage every race as a fundraising channel, we will create a more diverse and consistent volunteer athlete community.
Thrive Program
The Thrive program was launched to combat the continuing disparity in financial opportunity access in the US. Federal Reserve data indicates that as of Q4 2021, the top 1% of households in the United States held 32.3% of the country's wealth, while the bottom 50% held 2.6%. In recent decades, wealth inequality has substantially increased in the United States.
At Start Giving Local we believe that positively shifting the wealth gap begins with empowering historically underfunded/ underemployed community members. The Thrive program accomplishes this goal by providing educational, career development, and business support services for historically underestimated job seekers and entrepreneurs.
Where we work
External reviews
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of corporate volunteers
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Start Giving Local Volunteer Athlete Training Program
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Start Giving Local has several fundraising channels. Corporate sponsorship and corporate volunteer activity is a key channel for our volunteer athlete program.
Number of training events conducted
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Start Giving Local Volunteer Athlete Training Program
Type of Metric
Context - describing the issue we work on
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of job skills training courses/workshops conducted
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Through our programming we are creating an actionable path to bridge the health and wealth divide.
We believe access to opportunity, connection, and well-being are fundamental to successful communities.
We bring people with shared interests and common goals together to amplify achievement, reduce isolation, and support individual & community wellness.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Our philanthropic programs and technology solutions support community well being by:
- Connecting individuals and inspiring community through wellness, sport & fitness
- Providing inclusive opportunities to career paths for community members that have historically been underemployed
-Providing inclusive educational & business support for historically underfunded founders
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We are a team of volunteers with collective personal and professional expertise in entrepreneurship, endurance sports, digital marketing, corporate development, and social work. We have a deep personal connection to bridging the gaps and inefficiencies we see in the current philanthropic and community giving space. Our volunteers are personally connected to our mission and leverage their personal expertise and passion to help advance our team progress.
We are committed to building a transparent nonprofit that leverages the innovations that technology enables without losing sight of the importance of personal community relationships.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Start Giving Local officially received 501(C)3 status on May 10th of 2019 since that time we have achieved countless organizational firsts and in spite of a challenging quarantine period in 2020 and 2021, we are thrilled to share that we have created repeating annual programs that have helped us achieve significant measurable community outcomes. These include:
Annual Miles for Meaning Challenge
Community Action Drive (resulted in over 1500 community care-kits being distributed)
Thrive Program
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Start Giving Local
Board of directorsas of 09/06/2022
Kelly Oconnell
Start Giving Local
Shelley Iocona
ON ITS AXIS
Carly Moss
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Not applicable -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Not applicable
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
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