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Giving Back
This last month, The Villages raised our rent. We weren’t surprised as the Consumer Price Index went up, interest rates went up and all that jazz, we saw it coming.
We had to think about how to handle this. Do we raise our prices? We really didn’t want to do that. We work with various supplement companies and we tend to prefer the companies that look at their line and raise prices on the 1st of each year and not every time an overhead price or raw material goes up. So the answer is no, we are not raising our prices. We will in January 2023.
Newton’s Third Law of Motion states that “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction”. Artist Mary Engelbright stated “if you don’t like what is happening, change the way you think about it.” My mother, the Irish Sage always said “kill them with kindness”.
So that brings us to our new plan. To offset our rent increase, we are now going to give 1% of our net proceeds to a different local charity every month. It’s not a lot, but it's something. Everything is cyclical, and this is no exception.
Next month, we will be putting out a list of local charities that we will support until the end of the year. This month will be YOUR Humane Society SPCA. Meredith used to sit on their Board of Directors and is familiar with many of the top tier people to make sure this goes smoothly.
What we do need is 5 more. Do you have a local charity you are involved with? If so, please let us know so we can put it in our list.
Please click here to offer your charity info@myfaeve.com
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