Supporting women and girls to strengthen self-trust, belonging, and the courage to shape their lives and the world around them.
Practice Hope, One Day at a Time
Support the ongoing work of ChangemakerYOU to cultivate the kind of hope that leads to courageous action across generations.
Change does not happen just because women and girls are told to believe in themselves.
Across communities, girls often learn to perform in order to belong. Women are asked to lead, care, and contribute while setting aside their own clarity, judgment, and boundaries.
Without spaces that support reflection, mutual respect, and honest discernment, people can lose touch with their own inner guidance. Potential is not lost because of lack of ability, but because self-trust has not had the chance to grow within supportive relationships.
Change becomes possible when women and girls are supported in learning how to stay grounded in themselves while participating courageously in the world around them.
So how do women and girls grow into changemakers?
ChangemakerYOU exists to do that work.
Through retreats, shared experiences, and daily reflective tools, ChangemakerYOU creates spaces where women and girls strengthen self-trust, inner peace, and inner power — the grounded capacity from which courage and meaningful action naturally emerge.
Supporting Change Across Generations of Women
ChangemakerYOU is built on the belief that meaningful change grows through mutual encouragement across generations.
Our work brings women and girls together not as experts and students, but as people learning alongside one another — participating in community with clear boundaries, mutual respect, and shared responsibility.
These are protected spaces where belonging does not require performance, and encouragement is practiced as a skill that supports honest self-understanding.
In ChangemakerYOU programs, participants engage in practices that strengthen judgment, deepen self-acceptance, and build inner resilience. Over time, inner resilience becomes inner power — the capacity to act with courage, clarity, and care in one’s own life and in the wider world.
This kind of work takes time, consistency, and access. It depends on steady support to remain available to women and girls who might otherwise be excluded due to cost or circumstance.
How Your Support Helps This Work Continue
When you choose to support the work of ChangemakerYOU, you are helping sustain spaces where women and girls practice encouragement, strengthen self-trust, and learn how to remain grounded in themselves while contributing meaningfully to their communities.
In gratitude for your contribution, A Year of Daily Hope Notes (2026) is offered as a support for your own commitment to hope as a regular practice.
Each daily Hope Note offers a simple invitation to pause, reflect, and reconnect with what you know to be true for yourself. Over time, this kind of practice builds inner peace, strengthens inner power, and supports the courage to act with intention.
By supporting this initiative, you’re invited into a daily practice that nurtures your own clarity — while also helping ensure that the work continues to build the courage and capacity of women of all ages and stages of life.
Choose Your Level of Support
Give what feels right
Each level reflects a different way of supporting the ongoing work of ChangemakerYOU.
A Year of Daily Hope Notes (2026) is offered as a thank-you at every level.
Choose Your Level of Support
Friend of ChangemakerYOU
$100
Helps keep the work available.
Includes:
- Practicing Hope Calendar (digital download)
Supporter
$250
Helps the work deepen and reach further.
Includes:
- Practicing Hope Calendar (digital download)
- Name on website
- One-on-one “Hope in Action” conversation with Patti
Community Sponsor
$500
Helps ensure access for others.
Includes:
- Practicing Hope Calendar (digital download)
- Name on website
- Private lunch workshop
Founding Sponsor
$1,000
Bring the work directly into a community you care about.
Includes:
- Practicing Hope Calendar (digital download)
- Name on website
- Sponsor credit on game and other materials under development of their choice
- Piecework Training for an audience of your choice
Prefer to give a custom amount that feels right for you?
Carrying This Work Forward, Together
By supporting ChangemakerYOU, you are helping create and sustain spaces where women and girls belong in community, stay grounded in themselves, and build the courage to act from inner peace and inner power.
Your generosity strengthens work that will grow over time, ensuring it remains accessible to those who need it.
Our Thank-You to You
In gratitude for your support, you’ll receive A Year of Daily Hope Notes (2026) delivered to your email.
The calendar is a print-at-home PDF with one thoughtful prompt for each day of the year, designed to support a moment of reflection, a journaling practice, or table conversation with friends and family.
About Your Support
ChangemakerYOU is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Your contribution is a meaningful act of support for this work and may be tax-deductible as allowed by law. Please consult a CPA if you have questions.
