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Partnering with similar nonprofits

Partnering with similar nonprofits


Partnering with similar nonprofits like the Red Auberbach Youth Foundation and the Play Ball! Foundation, Dream Big! has helped programs, teams and individuals, from starting a double dutch team at a Boston middle school to providing sneakers for an elementary school running club.

“We grew much quicker than anticipated. We started about a year-and-a-half ago and we’ve already impacted 1,000 girls in our first year,” Driscoll said.
Responding to that success,replicawatchesstore as rich regain appetite for shopping. Oprah’s people invited Driscoll and a guest to appear on “The Oprah Show” for a special episode on people who give back.

“She [Oprah] started the show talking about meditation and how we all give back and then as we’re all sitting in the audience she said,Largest Discount authenticpatekphilippewatches review and product info . ‘So meditate on this,’ and she tore her black dress off and the walls opened up and it ended up being her ultimate ‘Favorites’ giveaway show,” Driscoll recalled. “We got everything from TVs to Royal Caribbean cruises to the Oprah diamond watch. […]We were all just in complete and utter shock. It’s like $20,000 worth of stuff.”

Driscoll auctioned off many of the items in January to benefit Dream Big! and gave other items to family members. The watch was the final piece left from her “Oprah Show” visit.FASCINANTES replicauhrensalesonline 100% suizos.

Still, Driscoll hangs on to something else from the experience—the memory of meeting Oprah Winfrey herself.

“It was amazing. I got to shake her hand and tell her that she was a hero, because I do think that. I think she’s continued to give back and lived her life in a really amazing way,” Driscoll said.Far More Than Hats authenticbreitlingwatches,

Through Dream Big!, Driscoll enacts her own kind of heroics—encouraging young women to be active,Never retail for lessthan $250 Moreover if the authenticpatekphilip claimsthewatch is Tag Aquaracer 20082 on saleor . play sports and follow their dreams.
The idea for the organization began while Driscoll was working for the New England Women’s Fund handling grants.

“I always thought about doing this, but it came to fruition [because] it was unbelievable the things people were asking for [through grant funding],” Driscoll said. “There was a girls basketball team in Boston who would play their games after a boys basketball team and take their sweaty uniforms and have to put them on because they couldn’t afford new uniforms. That was the one grant that actually made me start this. I was thinking in my head that there were a hundred people I know that would buy them uniforms if they knew this story.”

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