With the help of caring people, corporations and family foundations, we’ve been supporting the low-income moms in our community!

The Maternal Wellness Project, founded by Jaclyn Long of Mind Body Moms, is now being run by Organizacion Edificando Vidas, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization.

MAKE A DONATION: To make a 100% tax-deductible donation, please click the button below. You can make a donation in honor of a mom, and we will send her a sweet message, informing her that you think she is an amazing mom, and that you made a donation in her honor! In addition, you can include a personal message with your own words of appreciation if you would like.

Check out our FREE INTEGRATIVE WELLNESS GROUPS for low-income moms (Sponsored by our donors )

All donations enable us to support low-income moms throughout the SF Bay Area with our integrative wellness groups.

Our groups empower moms with tools that promote mental/emotional health through our mindfulness-based stress reduction program, physical health through our exercise and nutrition program and relational health through our parent education program. We offer these modules in 8 to 10 week sessions, so moms can be immersed in learning and the cultivation of skills in community together.

  • $45 allows us to provide a low-income mom with a 2-hour wellness class

  • $450 supports a low-income mom for 2 hours a week for 10 weeks (one full series)

  • $1,800 supports a low-income mom for 2 hours a week throughout the year; or 4 moms for 10 weeks

  • $6,750 supports 15 low-income moms for 10 weeks

  • $27,000 supports 15 low-income moms for 2 hours a week throughout the year; or 60 moms for 10 weeks

Any donation amount is warmly encouraged, even if it is not in $45 increments.

We need your help to make sure the low-income moms in our community can receive our supportive services!

The Maternal Wellness Project, founded by Jaclyn Long of Mind Body Moms, is now being run by Organizacion Edificando Vidas, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization.

MAKE A DONATION: To make a 100% tax-deductible donation, please click the button below. You can make a donation in honor of a mom, and we will send her a sweet message, informing her that you think she is an amazing mom, and that you made a donation in her honor! In addition, you can include a personal message with your own words of appreciation if you would like.

If you prefer to send a check, please make checks payable to:

Organizacion Edificando Vidas

Please write “MWP” in the memo line and send payment to:

P.O. Box 2394
Santa Clara, CA 95055-2394

Please feel free to email Jaclyn Long at jaclyn@mindbodymoms.com if you would like to discuss the donation process.

All donations enable use to offer our integrative wellness programs to low-income moms in East Palo Alto and Half Moon Bay, CA at no charge.

Our groups empower moms with well-researched and evidence-based tools to decrease anxiety, improve mood and parent more consciously.

Being a mom is hard work. We need each other to parent well.

Moms in our Mindful Moms groups report:

  • Increased sense of calm

  • Improved mood

  • Increased sense of belonging

  • Improved quality of life

  • Improved relationship with kids

“There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.”
–Marianne Williamson

We believe that one of the best ways to help transform the way we raise our children is to make sure that mothers are getting the support they need. To this end, we have established partnerships with local organizations to expand our outreach. Our partnerships include:

  • East Palo Alto Library

  • Palo Alto Medical Foundation

  • CORA: Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse

  • Hatch Elementary School

  • New Creation in East Palo Alto

We give special thanks to our generous donors.

Ellis L. Phillips Foundation, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Lululemon, John Lyddon Family Foundation, Stephanie and Charles Knowles, Liz Stinson, Marina, Andy, Chiara & Anna Martin, Matt and Aryn Grossman, Karen Allen, Stephanie Lazar, Arlene Kansora, Teodora Ngo, Donne Davis, Lynn Kearney, Dan Garrison, Georgette Wong, Karen Harwell, Leslie McNeil, Katie Renati, Elena Battles, Fiona Henderson & Jason Mortimer, Karen French Neuman, Teresa A. Kung, L.Ac., and Yosi Amram of the Knowledge Freedom Foundation.

Check out all of the ways we’ve been supporting the low-income moms in our community!

OTHER WAYS TO HELP!

There are so many ways to support Mind Body Moms – not just financially – and we’d LOVE your help! You can:

  • Serve as a liaison at your school, to help us provide low-income moms with Integrative Wellness Programs
  • Forward our emails to moms you know, and post on your Facebook groups. Encourage moms to participate in our paid programs, which enable us to offer our FREE programs!
  • Refer our Employee Wellness Program  to your corporation.
  • Serve as a volunteer onsite babysitter while we work with moms in East Palo Alto and Half Moon Bay.

VOLUNTEER READING / BABYSITTING

We are currently seeking volunteers to support the Spanish-speaking mothers we will be serving on Saturdays in East Palo Alto this summer.  We are seeking volunteers to hold babies, connect with toddlers and read to kids, while our team at Mind Body Moms supports the moms with our integrative wellness programs.

The current volunteering time is from 10am-11am on Saturdays, from June 30 – Aug 25, 2018 at the East Palo Alto Library. It helps to arrive around 9:45am, to get situated with a little one. The East Palo Alto Library has a Reading Challenge going on all summer, so you can help support the kids with their summer reading!

Please click on the button below if you are interested in this sweet and super helpful volunteer opportunity, and we will be in touch to set you up with volunteering!

“To leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson