What Matters: Community Impact

 
 
 
 

By: Myasia Stephens

Radical generosity. Ask around and you’ll hear a lot of varying musings about what it means. As we recently discussed with Anne Helen Petersen, in order to thrive, humans need to build, maintain and enhance community. However, community can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. For some, it’s their neighborhood; for others, it might be a group of people that share common interests online or in-person.

For Giving Tuesday, we leaned into the “choose-your-own-adventure” approach, giving each teammate $40 to invest in their respective communities. To no one’s surprise, the incredible people of LaunchSquad did incredible things for the people they care most about.

Here’s a sampling of the impact our people made:

  • Pay-it-forward experiences at drive-thrus

  • Candles, cookies and coffee as a way to meet and delight neighbors

  • Toys and gifts for youths with incarcerated parents, children of veterans and other families in need

  • Supporting causes close to our hearts, like the Alzheimer’s Association and the Club Q families and survivors

  • Extra big tips to service providers

  • Supporting our entrepreneur friends

  • Cultivating a love of books with gift cards and handwritten notes

  • “Pie it forward” — getting pies on tables to queer families in need

  • Supporting unhoused neighbors with little treats and basic necessities

That’s the very profound thing about our Squad. People come here because they want to have an impact on the world. And we’re continuously blown away by the way they make it happen.

 
 
 
 
Myasia Stephens