The Magnolia Project
The Magnolia Project is a tried and true platform started in 2013 by our Board Member, Elizabeth Kimball. The three-pronged strategy of The Magnolia Project includes: serving families in life crisis, creating volunteer opportunities for families in life crisis, and facilitating mentoring relationships among high school and junior high youth.
The Magnolia Project creates hair bows, bowties, pocket squares, pet bandanas, and blankets for those families in medical crisis, partnering with help from those in life crisis who may be looking for a place to give back themselves, and supported by the time and talents of our mentoring partners who make the connections happen. Our primary partner has been the Ronald McDonald House, providing these handmade treasures to the siblings residing in this special place and attending school while their ill siblings are being treated in the hospital. Often times, we feel the visit itself from the Magnolia team members is more important than the gifts.
We have also developed other unique products intended to facilitate connection within families and communities, including “Tea Talk” and “Little Bit of Something “ Plates. Tea Talk is a parent conversation game designed to foster the special bond with a child. A “…little bit of something of the very best you’ve got…” was a motto that Elizabeth’s great grandmother, Bessie Gregory, lived by, sharing the cream of her crop with her neighbors. The “Little Bit of Something” plates are packaged to continue that legacy of “connectivity” within communities.
Please enquire to Labor of Love for interest in The Magnolia Project. For more background, please feel free to visit the website at www.themagnoliaproject.com.