We love a good before-and-after story. The park that got cleaned up. The food drive that hit its goal. The ribbon-cutting photo. What we don’t talk about nearly as much is the Tuesday afternoon before all that, when the plan fell apart and nobody on the team knew what to do next.

How many times have you said “I want to make a difference”?

And how many times has that sentence quietly died right after you said it, because making a difference sounded like it needed to cost a fortune or take over your life? A five figure donation. A weekend you don’t have. A cause so big you don’t know where to even start pushing.

That’s exactly where Small Magic Foundation comes in.

I keep coming back to this one idea. Most teens don’t turn down an opportunity. They never even consider it in the first place, because somewhere in their head they’ve already decided it’s not for them. Not for kids like them. It’s not that they weigh it and say no. It just never occurs to them that it could be a yes.