COMMUNITY CONNECTION

Life is about living within community – learning what community means to us, how to be effective members of various communities that are important to us. In addition there is the greater regional and global community. As an intentional member of these communities, a minimum of 10 percent of all profits from Forward Flowing Consultancy go to the following organizations:

• Amy's Fund - administered by the National Network to End Domestic Violence, the fund provides grants directly to women who need to flee - money for a month's rent, a bus ticket, a car repair or any of the overwhelming issues that can stand between a woman, her children and safety.www.nnedv.org/projects/amysfund.html
• The Compassionate Friends
  -- Greater Baltimore Chapter www.baltimoretcf.com
  -- National Organization www.compassionatefriends.com
• Habitat for Humanity of Howard County website
• Animal Welfare Society of Howard County
  8556 Davis Road - Columbia, Maryland 21045
  Phone: 410-465-4350 Fax: 410-480-4316; e-mail: ShellyPaws@aol.com
  See “Shelter Locator” on the national website.
  Note: this chapter has a building fund drive currently in progress. August 2007
  
• SPCA – www.aspca.org

"The goal of the community is to make sure that each member of the community is heard and is properly giving the gifts that they have brought to this world. And without the community, the individual is left without a place where they can contribute... When you don't have community, you are not listened to; you don't have a place you can go to and feel that you really belong. You don't have people to affirm who you are and to support you in bringing forward your gifts. . . . Without the unloading of our gifts we experience a blockage inside, and this blockage effects us spiritually, mentally and physically in many different ways. We are left without a home, a home to go to when we need to be seen."
Source: Sobonfu Some, The Spirit of Intimacy