Beneficience dinner of Just a Change

Just a Change is an organization with the aim of fighting housing poverty in Lisbon. So, we are arranging a beneficence dinner with the goal of gather funds to the normal functi...

Just a Change is an organization with the aim of fighting housing poverty in Lisbon. So, we are arranging a beneficence dinner with the goal of gather funds to the normal functioning of the association.

As Non-Profit Association, Just a Change struggle against housing poverty mobilizing Portuguese young people to the cause, throw street shows, sponsors and donations the allow to reunite the necessary funds to remodel the houses of the needed. 

The name of the organization arises from the two meanings of the word in English, change as coins and change as a change in people’s lives, and these are two crucial stages of the project:

-“Just a Change” as a fund raiser, when the voluntary workforce sings and cheers the streets with their performances.

-“Just a Change” as the change in the lives of the people that we provide while remodeling the house.

Vision: A world without housing poverty where young people have a compromised and active role in the society.

Mission: Fight housing poverty throw remodeling the houses of needed families mobilizing young people as voluntary workforce.

Just a Change in Numbers:

- We’ve reached 700 young people as a voluntary workforce;

 - Managing team of Just a Change grow from 7 to 26 people;

- We’ve remodel 22 private houses and 7 institutions;

- Within 29 interventions, 1200 hours of voluntary workforce was mobilized;

- 14 street performances have been made;

- Is estimated that 400 needed people have benefited directly from Just a Change.

Our need of funding?

Just a Change still depends of the support and donations given by people or companies to function. This event is a way to the people to support our cause, since the money they will pay for the dinner as two goals, to pay some of the costs of this event and to finance the 2015 regular functioning of the Association. 

So we figure to make our first run on the crowdfunding world, with the purpose of fund part of the costs of the event and consequentially Just a Change can retract a larger part of the event revenues and with it reach more families and work in a larger number of houses in the following year. Help us to create “Just a (big) Change” on this world.

Os lideres da nossa estrutura!

About the author

Just a Change relies on a structure of 26 voluntary young people. This structure is who manges the daily basis of the association. They are the mind of the association, they set and reach the annual goals. The board is composed by 5 members:

Lourenço Brito - (President)

António Bello (CEO)

Sara Oom de Sousa

Gonçalo Coimbra

António Pinto Leite

Lourenço has 22 years old and is finishing his Industrial Managing and Engineering Masters in Instituto Superior Técnico. At same time, he’s already working in the operational and logistics consultant company Kaizen. He practices sports as Taekwondo and Rugby. He’s one of the founders and now is the President of Just a Change assuming a role of leadership and strategy. He is the board representative.

António Bello has 23 years old and is also finishing the same Masters as Lourenço in the same School. He’s making his final thesis in a partnership with Sonae Modelo and Continente Company. He loves sports, especially Rugby, and also likes to play guitar. He is going to be the person who will work in Just a Change in full time. He’s also one of the founders as will assume the position of CEO of the organization, granting that the growing set objectives are achieved.

Sara is 23 years old and is finishing her Architecture Masters in Instituto Superior Técnico. Her final thesis focuses on the Lisbon urban problems and the existent answers for it. She’s also one of the founders.

Gonçalo is 23 years old and is also finishing is Architecture Masters but in Faculdade de Arquitectura de Lisboa. He plays the piano and guitar and he also likes the visual arts. He’s also one of the founders.

António Pinto Leite is 21 years old and is on the final year of the Industrial Management and Engineering Undergraduate Program in ISCTE. Today he is the responsible for the Lisbon sector. The Lisbon sector is what executes the activity of the Association: remodelings, funds raising, voluntary management and beneficiary relationship.

The remaining members of the structure compound the Lisbon sector.

Together they will embrace a new challenge, with the leadership of António Bello, hoping for the continuous growth of the organization

Besides the structure Just a change is supported by dozens of voluntaries the allow us to continue! They are the ones that keep up with us in the remodeling and street performances

Budget and due dates

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