Because I Love my City
I was born and raised in the metropolitan area of Birmingham, AL. As I was growing up, a lot of people had a really negative view of this city because of its dark past and instability in the present. However, I always had an inexplicable love for Birmingham from the time I was old enough to know its name. I wanted to see Birmingham become great again.
As an adult, I learned of a nonprofit called Mission Birmingham, whose goal it is to bring leaders together from all sectors of our city to create partnerships and strategies to improve our city. My husband and I started giving a little money, as we could afford it, to the organization. Eventually, I got involved in some hand-on projects with Mission Birmingham, as I fell more in love with their purpose and the way they go about it.
Today, I am a part-time volunteer for Mission Birmingham, helping put together a regular newsletter and writing for its blog. We are seeing a resurgence of so many of the things that make our city great, and we're enjoying the positive publicity Birmingham is getting from around the country. It's a result of the hard work by so many different people and organizations, and I love knowing that it's because I gave to one of those organizations that I was able to become a small part of the city's rebirth. We have a long way to go, but we've also come an amazingly long way.
My giving story is that by giving to a cause for a city I loved, I was able to help change that city for the better.
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