Contact: Inquiries, Donations & Partnerships

We're Here to Listen

Most meaningful contact begins with a careful message and a patient reply.

RJD Blessings receives inquiries from people carrying very different kinds of responsibility: a parent remembering a child, a reader responding to the book, a volunteer asking where help is useful, or a community group looking for a grounded voice on grief, violence, advocacy, and resilience. We read those messages with respect. We also try to answer in a way that honors the reason someone reached out, not just the question they typed.

For direct contact, please email Director Rachel McKenna at [email protected]. A clear subject line helps us route the message well. For example, “Volunteer inquiry from local parent group” tells us more than “Hello” and allows us to respond with the right context.

Questions and Feedback

Questions often come after someone has read a page, attended a talk, or heard about the work from another family. Feedback arrives in a different tone. Sometimes it is a correction. Sometimes it is a memory. Both matter.

When you write, include the page, event, or project that prompted your message. If your note concerns site content, you may point us to the specific section so we can review it responsibly. If you are responding to a story or public conversation, tell us what stayed with you. We do not treat every message as a public comment; we treat it first as correspondence.

We keep this contact path simple because complicated forms can push away the very people who most need a human response. That said, email is not a secure clinical or legal channel. Please avoid sending sensitive records, case files, or private documents unless we have specifically discussed the reason and scope first.

Supporting Our Work: Donors and Volunteers

Support is not only financial. In small community-centered work, a dependable volunteer who follows through on one useful task can matter as much as a larger promise that never lands.

Donors may write to ask what current needs look like, how gifts are used, or whether a contribution can support a specific area of outreach. Volunteers may ask about reading support, event help, awareness efforts, administrative tasks, or local connection-building. We appreciate both kinds of inquiry, and we prefer a practical conversation before anyone commits time or funds.

A useful first message might say: “I can help two evenings a month with outreach emails,” or “Our family would like to support remembrance materials connected to your mission.” Specific offers give us something real to evaluate. Broad offers are welcome too, but they usually require more follow-up before we can match them responsibly.

Grant Inquiry Protocols

Grant conversations work best when both sides define scope early.

If you represent a foundation, agency, civic group, or donor-advised process, please include the funding purpose, expected timeline, reporting requirements, geographic focus if any, and whether the inquiry concerns operating support, a defined project, speaking and outreach, remembrance work, or advocacy-related education. These details help us decide whether the opportunity fits the work rather than forcing the work to fit the opportunity.

We have learned to ask plain questions at the beginning: What problem is the grant trying to address? Who does the funder expect to reach? What evidence or documentation will be required? What restrictions apply to use of funds? A grant can strengthen community work, but it can also pull a small organization away from the people it serves if the reporting burden outweighs the benefit.

Please send grant-related messages to [email protected] with “Grant inquiry” in the subject line. We review these requests in relation to mission fit, time requirements, and current capacity; not every aligned opportunity will be feasible in a given season.

Community and Advocacy Partnerships

Partnerships usually start long before an agreement. They begin when people recognize a shared concern and test whether their ways of working can sit together.

RJD Blessings welcomes contact from schools, faith communities, survivor-support networks, advocacy groups, civic organizations, and local leaders who are thinking carefully about grief, remembrance, youth safety, family support, or public awareness. A strong partnership inquiry names the community involved, the purpose of the effort, the proposed role for RJD Blessings, and the timeline. It also names who will hold responsibility for logistics, communication, and follow-up.

One community group might ask for a speaker during a remembrance week. Another might want help shaping a conversation for parents after a local act of violence. Those are different requests. The first may need a prepared talk and space for reflection. The second may require a slower planning call, attention to trauma exposure, and clear boundaries about what the gathering can and cannot do.

What We Can and Cannot Offer

We can offer a listening point, a thoughtful reply, and a place to begin a conversation about support, remembrance, outreach, donations, grants, or partnership. We can review inquiries that connect to the mission of RJD Blessings. We can help clarify whether a request belongs with us or whether another kind of professional support may be more appropriate.

We cannot provide emergency response, legal representation, medical guidance, or licensed mental health treatment. We also cannot promise participation in every event, campaign, grant opportunity, or media request. Capacity matters, especially when the work touches grief and advocacy at the same time.

If your message concerns website terms or privacy expectations, please review the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. If you want to learn more about the people and purpose behind the work before writing, visit About RJD Blessings or Meet the Authors.