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Hope, Made Real: A Human FundMe Campaign
Dear World,
My name is Tasha Monroe, founder of Simply Edyn & Co., a Black woman-owned online store. Hope, Made Real is a labor of love, created while navigating serious chronic illness and rebuilding after job loss.
This business is my clearest path toward stability, medication, housing, and a future built with dignity.
The need is real, urgent, and pivotal. Your support helps Simply Edyn & Co. keep going, and gives it room to grow into something with true impact.
If you can purchase, share, or help this reach the right people, thank you.
Hope, Made Real Fund
Direct support for Tasha’s housing, medication, care, and small business survival.
The Dream Goal: $550,000
The long-term goal for Hope, Made Real: The Stability & Build Fund is $350,000.
That number would help me address major debt, taxes, transportation, and the business runway needed to give Simply Edyn & Co. a real chance to grow.
It would allow me to invest in marketing, advertising, PR, sales support, expert help, product development, campaign strategy, and the operational support required to build a sustainable business from home while navigating chronic illness.
This is the dream layer. The GoFundMe helps me survive the emergency.
Hope, Made Real helps me build a future that does not keep me trapped inside one.
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Hope, Made Real: The Stability & Build Fund
Hope, Made Real began as a way to turn support into something tangible.
The Stability & Build Fund exists to help me protect housing stability while building Simply Edyn & Co. into a stronger, more sustainable business.
Right now, Simply Edyn & Co. is my online store and my primary path forward. Every contribution helps create the breathing room needed to keep building with care, consistency, and intention.
Your support helps cover the real costs behind the work: housing stability, business operations, inventory, web tools, subscriptions, marketing, product development, packaging, fulfillment, visibility, and the steady infrastructure needed to grow.
The long-term vision is bigger than an online shop.
I am building toward a thoughtful marketplace rooted in useful goods, books, wellness, local makers, community, beauty, and human-centered design.
A place to shop with purpose.
A place to gather.
A place that gives back.
A place that makes life feel a little more human.
Every contribution matters. Every purchase, donation, share, repost, referral, and kind word helps move this work forward.
This fund is about stability, sustainability, and building what comes next with integrity.
Thank you for helping me keep going and build toward the future I can still see clearly.
With care, always.
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My Elevator Pitch
Simply Edyn & Co. is my online store today, but my long-term dream is to grow it into a brick-and-mortar marketplace rooted in care, beauty, and everyday usefulness.
The vision is simple, but not small: sustainable apparel, thoughtful goods, home, books, wellness, local makers, and community experiences under one warm, intentional roof.
A place to shop with purpose, gather with ease, and remember that softness can still be strong.
This campaign is my pitch to the world.
Every Hope, Made Real purchase helps me stay housed, protect my health, keep building, and move this dream one step closer to real.
(continue reading the pitch 👇🏽)
BIGGER DREAM | VISION FORWARD
One act is kindness. A million acts is hope, made real.
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