When thinking about all of the amazing community funding our professional sports teams provide season after season, I can’t help but think how my friends and fellow alumni from Arizona State University play a role too. My time as a student volunteer for several organizations played a huge role in my future as a nonprofit-staffer-turned-consultant. […]

True Story: My college degree from ASU is in Exercise Science. In other words, I never really thought about being a magazine publisher. But through some fortuitous twists and turns in life, I’m proud to be here today and to introduce myself as the new publisher of Frontdoors Media. Let me tell you a little […]

Then I moved on to “BREATHE!” as a way to encourage all of us (myself included) to get outside for some fresh air. And where am I now? Apparently designing a T-shirt that reads “High-Functioning Discombobulated Person” to label myself as someone who needs a break. A break from the fuzzy year this has been, […]

Spring is here, and so is that famous Arizona sunshine. If you’re like me, you need that little nudge to power down the laptop or pause the Netflix and spend more time outdoors. While we are still being cautious and not gathering in large groups, there are many community walks and events that you can […]

Society of Chairs gala returns for 2021 Mark your calendars — Wed., April 28, 2021, for the return of our signature event, Society of Chairs. Like so many other nonprofit events, this one was canceled in 2020, and we made the difficult decision to pass on a virtual version as well. Instead, our invitation to […]

This phrase is used by my new friend Phil Rosenthal, the host of the Netflix program “Somebody Feed Phil” and the creator of “Everybody Loves Raymond.” (He’s not really my friend, but I feel like he is after recently binging his global food series.) Phil utters the phrase “Come on!” in episode one, season one, […]

Once again, the Frontdoors team has been out and about (with masks on), searching for a local spin on gift-giving for the holiday season. Now more than ever, let’s take time to support the small businesses in our community so they can keep giving back too. HOSTESS GIFTS Hand-Poured Candles While we may not be […]

It’s all my friends are talking about — women and men. This “work-from-home, school-from-home, record-breaking heat wave” situation has us DOWN, and we’re over it. Yes, we were over it in May, but now we’re really over it. Our mental well-being is at stake. But lately, I’ve heard more and more about some of my […]

So, here we are, 20-plus weeks into a global pandemic and the daily stress it has caused on all people, all places and all things. The flow of information for our local nonprofit arts and culture organizations has gone from canceled events to emergency funding announcements and now plans for “virtual” gatherings through the fall […]

The end of May is our time to evaluate things here at Frontdoors, followed by time I take each June to set goals for my personal life. This year, I find myself with more lead time to prepare for this annual exercise but, wow, there are so many questions swirling as I create the long […]