Support our Mission-Based, Values-Led Small Business
Would you like to show your support for Culture of Safety? We’d love that! We gratefully accept the support of our community. As a small business trying to make a difference in our community, we know that we can’t do it alone — nor would we want to! Below are ways to support us:
- Take a class or workshop with us! Hire us to teach an Empowerment Self Defense or
Personal Safety workshop, or join our Jin Sei Ryu Chicago Karate-Do™ community as a student. - Spread the word! Tell your friends, your job, everyone you know about the work we’re doing. Recommend us on Google or Yelp or Like or review us on Facebook (Culture of Safety – Self-Defense page) (Jin Sei Ryu Chicago– Karate page).
- Buy T-shirts and other merchandise!
- Make a one-time donation to support our work.
- Become an Ally Member. We strive to offer all our services at a sliding scale to allow all family to receive our services. Ally Members help us to continue to offer services at our Reduced Tier for individuals and families who most need it.
- $50/month Silver Ally Membership: Supports 1 Training Member at our Reduced Tier
- $100/month Gold Ally Membership: Supports 2 Training Members at our Reduced Tier
- $150/month Platinum Ally Membership: Supports 3 Training Members at our Reduced Tier
Ongoing Gratitude for our Early supporters
We are so grateful to the help we received as we got our nascent business off the ground in 2019. While it may be (usually) just the two of us in front of the class right now, we never forget that without the support of our community, Culture of Safety would have never been born. Our deepest gratitude goes to the folks below for their support in our 2019 Fundraiser:
$500+ Supporters:
- Dory West
- Yudit Sidikman
$100 – $499 Supporters:
- John & Rosemary Epperson
- Jackie Bastow
- Wendy Doniger
- Camille Rosewright
- Wai-Kwong Kwok
- Claudia Graziano
$1 – $99 Supporters
- Brett Schatzle
- David Egan
- Sam Boyer
- David Doiron
- Karen Collett
- Joyce Mende Wong
- Joy Wiliamson
- Darla Bolon
- Mona MacDonald
- Ellen Krause-Grosman
- Cynthia Dieden
- Shelley Miller
- Beth Capotosto
- Cathy Chapaty
- Martha Thompson
- Carrie Slack
- Cori H.
- Brieanne Beaujolais
In-Kind Donors
Huge thanks to the following for donating very valuable goods & services:
- Sarah Riehl for web-hosting and domain registration
- Carl Foote for a (super-fast!) desktop computer
- Camille Rosewright for a monitor
- Mark Hubert of Picture Day for a fabulous photo shoot
- Tabitha Olson for initial logo & letterhead design concepts and for providing coaching via Lori Howard Coaching
- Fany Bartolin of Acorn Accouting, LLC for professional tax advice
Supporter Mark Hubert of Picture Day poses with Amy & Kyren