Sally Morrow gives away $100 a month to charity – even though she’s not rich, and she’s only 25 years old.
“When I first started, I was making $23,000 a year. It was a pretty big commitment,” said Morrow, who now works as an intern architect at a North Chattanooga firm. “That’s the thing I splurge on.”
Morrow makes the donations as a member of the UnFoundation. It’s a Chattanooga charity born in 2011 at a 48Hour Launch event held by the Company Lab, a downtown nonprofit “incubator” of new businesses and organizations.
The UnFoundation currently has 18 members who each pitch in $100 a month. They meet as a group at a bar or restaurant to vote on which worthy cause should get that month’s $1,800 “microgrant.” The UnFoundation has funded everything from ukuleles used in a North Chattanooga children’s summer music program to the finishing touches on a mural of Martin Luther King Jr. on M.L. King Boulevard.
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