Letter from DGT’s New Executive Director, MiaLisa Millares

Dear Friends, Champions, and Supporters,

This past year, 2021, was a year of transition and change for Doing Good Together™ (DGT™). Our beloved founder and Executive Director, Jenny Friedman, retired, but our Board and staff took great care to usher in a smooth transition. 

Thanks to our incredibly generous supporters, we continue to provide innovations, respond to family needs, create new projects, curate family volunteer opportunities, and reach out to the community through new platforms. 

We continued to excel at what we do best: creating high-quality content for our families. For the second year in a row, we focused on our digital work. We have increased our digital offerings, expanded our DGT membership to Classrooms and Youth Groups, created our second annual all-virtual Festival of Giving, and offered virtual zoom webinars and podcasts. We continue to reach families across the United States and abroad with our messages of hope, kindness, love, sharing, and the common good.

We also took some time to focus on operational change. We recruited and trained new Board Members, hired new leadership and staff in California, and built intentional relationships with our new community. We took your feedback to start the process of overhauling our website to make our existing content much easier to navigate for busy, engaged families. And these organizational changes and transitions infused us with new energy and hope amidst a challenging year.

Our talented and supportive Board of Directors provided unwavering support and guidance as we navigated our transitions.  Our incredible volunteers and fabulous community partners continued to blossom. And, our generous and loyal donors continued their steadfast support. 

In the third year of our strategic plan, we made substantial progress and achieved many ambitious goals, including creating new resources, growing our membership, and deepening collaborations.

As you read about our new resources and creative partnerships, we hope you continue to feel inspired by our enduring vision: to build a world in which sharing kindness and helping others is a routine part of every family’s daily life. 

Thank you for believing in the common good, spreading kindness, championing your support, and making the world a better place.

In gratitude,

MiaLisa Millares