About The Maker: Tina Frey

About the Maker – Tina Frey

For Goodness Sake is excited to introduce some amazing products from Tina Frey.  Tina’s amazing resin table and barware designs stem from the organic nature of the sea as she hand molds each design in clay.  The distinct texture of the material along with the individual and hand sanded finish gives each piece a unique and distinct character. 

Tina Frey is also a native Bay Area resident, with her studio in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco.  We’re happy to include her in the For Goodness Sake family, and bring another unique artisan craft to our community of living big, loving hard, and giving back.  We are so excited to work with such a talented artist.

Shop these styles at forgoodsake.org.

Cheers,

For Goodness Sake

GOOD To Know: Our Charity Partner: Giants Community Fund

We at For Goodness Sake are proud to have the Giants Community Fund as a charity partner.  100% of the proceeds from each purchase of Giants-related products on the site go to the Giants Community Fund, which does amazing work with underserved youths on the West Coast.  Below are some impressive stats from their 2013 Communty Impact Report. 

Check out what your purchases are contributing to in our community below!

 (c) Giants Community Fund

For over twenty years, the Giants Community Fund has collaborated with the San Francisco Giants by using baseball as a forum to encourage underserved youth and their families to live healthy and productive lives.  Through its flagship program, Junior Giants, the Fund provides free baseball activities and life skills training to over 22,000 boys and girls, ages 5-18. The Fund partners with local youth centers (Boys and Girls Club, YMCA, PAL, etc.) to deliver the program and serve as a safe space for kids in more than 90 communities in three different states (California, Nevada & Oregon).

Since 2011, the Fund has conducted an annual independent, university-based study to understand the impact of the program on the young people it serves. The study has consistently found that Junior Giants is making a direct and positive impact in the kids’ lives.  With an emphasis on character development, health, education and bullying prevention, Junior Giants is considered a high-quality, high-impact youth development program.  These life lessons, learned in the context of baseball, are then transferred to school, home and among friends and family, and, ultimately, set participants up for future success.

Junior Giants participants are succeeding in all of the following categories:
CONFIDENCE
EATING MORE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
ENCOURAGING OTHERS
ENTHUSIASM FOR BASEBALL
DRINKING WATER
INTEGRITY
LEADERSHIP
POSITIVE SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
READING
RESPECT FOR OTHERS
TEAMWORK

Thanks to the support of fans, businesses and the community, the Junior Giants program grows and improves each year.  The demographics of the Junior Giants participants are as follows:
22,938 PARTICIPANTS
90 LEAGUES
215 CITIES
80% OF PARTICIPANTS COME FROM LOW TO MODERATE INCOME HOUSEHOLDS
7,415 GIRLS
2,893 COACHES
1,580 TEAM PARENTS