Good Work started at a kitchen table in 2018, with one question: what if we funded the neighbors already showing up for each other, instead of building another org from scratch? Seven years later, that question still runs everything we do.
Five neighbors pooled $4,000 to cover a family's rent for a month. Word spread down the block, and then across it.
When the pandemic hit, we moved $600,000 in direct relief in ten weeks — no red tape, no waiting lists.
We turned scattered good deeds into standing programs — Feed, Mentor, and Rebuild — so the help keeps coming.
We earned our first independent audit and a Platinum transparency rating — proof the numbers add up.
Today Good Work funds more than 90 neighborhood projects a year, powered by donors and volunteers who live nearby.
A small team, deep roots. Most of us live within a few miles of the projects we fund.
Founder & Director
Programs Lead
Community Partnerships
Volunteer Coordinator
The mentorship grant meant I could keep the doors open three more nights a week. That's twelve more kids with somewhere to be.
Our community fridge never runs empty now. Neighbors fill it, Good Work keeps it stocked, and nobody has to ask twice.
Give once or give monthly. Either way it lands with a neighbor who needs it this week — not someday.