Wait… What’s a Nonprofit? (And Why It Might Be My Thing)

So I want to tell you about something I learned recently that kind of blew my mind a little: I learned what a nonprofit is.

Before, I didn’t really know that word. I just knew I wanted to help people. I was making Empower Her care kits and giving them out at my school and to others who needed them, and that made me feel good...like I was doing something that mattered. 

But then, I heard my mom say, “Wow, you’re basically running a nonprofit!”
And I was like… What’s that?

So I asked more about nonprofits, I looked it up, and learned that a nonprofit is an organization that exists to help people, not to make money for someone. They raise money or get donations so they can do good things... like support communities, protect the environment, help animals, or in my case… make sure people have period products when they need them.

When I learned that, something kind of clicked.
I thought: Wait. This is a real thing? Helping people like this can be a whole job? A real-life mission?

It made me feel excited and curious, like maybe this is what I want to do—not just as a project for school or a Girl Scout project, but something I really care about for a long time. I don’t know exactly what’s next, but I do know that learning about nonprofits helped me see that what I’m doing matters and there’s a whole world of people out there trying to do good things, just like me.

And that?


That makes me want to keep going.

Thanks for reading,


Ava