Creighton Community Foundation helps feed food-insecure families with our Feeding Phoenix Program. Use your tax credits to donate for FREE at creightoncommunityfoundation.org/taxcredit . For more information, visit feedingphoenix.org or call 602.888.3770 . IMPACT: Over 60 tons of fresh and shelf-stable food are distributed to nearly 1,700 food-insecure community members a month. BE A CHAMPION FOR HUNGRY FAMILIES

NEXT DOORS { ahead of the curve } Y ou know all those signs and posters and stickers promoting social distancing? Those things are expensive! For a nonprofit organization, they can be downright cost-prohibitive — especially if your nonprofit has multiple locations Valleywide, all large facilities with hundreds of employees, volunteers and visitors. I’m specifically talking about Valley of the Sun YMCA and its 13 branches across Arizona. The organization has to print a lot of stuff . T-shirts for staff, employees and children. Signage. COVID-related materials. It adds up. “In COVID, as you can imagine, we were printing a ton of collateral, and it was changing up constantly,” said Ryan Knak, Valley of the Sun YMCA executive director of marketing. “And of course, being an organization of our size, we’re constantly printing all those types of things for our membership on a monthly basis. We were spending a significant amount of money each year on printing.” There was another unrelated need — how could they help students at the Watts Family Maryvale YMCA participating in the work experience program, or WEX, Tom Evans I Contributing Editor Valley of the Sun YMCA Print Studio Provides Work Training for Underprivileged Children PRINTING WITH PURPOSE Students participating in the WEX program at the Watts Family Maryvale YMCA learn a job skill and contribute to the community. FRONTDOORS MEDIA | 57 | FEBRUARY 2022