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Welcome to the Cottage.

The Tiny Canal Cottage is a resource for helping folks mindfully conceptualize, decorate and enjoy versatile + smaller home spaces. Founded by designer, consultant, stylist, creative director and author, Whitney Leigh Morris, this family-owned small business recently finished the construction of a new, compact cottage and greenhouse-office in the southeastern US, and are also restoring a little 1800s French farmhouse and its outbuildings with co-stewards. Morris’ focus is crafting flexible, sustainable, and more community-focused home spaces. Explore Whitney’s book, blog, and social channels for years of tips and tales from living and working in — and with — a smaller footprint.

Give the Gift of Mental Health Support

Give the Gift of Mental Health Support

Post Summary: This winter, be a part of giving transition-age foster youth a safe place to live, work, grow, and heal.

Unresolved trauma leaves former foster youth at a greater risk of experiencing substance abuse, unemployment, homelessness, incarceration, and poverty. For Giving Tuesday during this difficult year, please consider giving the gift of mental health support to help foster youth become the adults they deserve to be. 

This week, I’m focusing on how contributions of varying sizes can give Youth from The RightWay Foundation the gift of access to professional mental health care.

  • Your donation of $35 can provide mental health care for one Youth for one day.

  • Your donation of $245 can provide mental health care for one Youth for one week.

  • Your donation of $980 can provide mental health care for one Youth for one month.

Click here to donate

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RightWay has been working towards securing safe, dedicated apartments for unhoused transition-age foster Youth in LA, while also providing them with mental health care, access to essential services, job placement, a supportive community, and trauma-informed training for employers.

Other giving options:

  • $32 provides one day of rent / $240 provides one week of rent / $960 provides one month of rent

  • $63 provides one week of food / $250 provides one month of food

  • $60 provides one month of Internet Connectivity

  • $50 provides one month of Health & Wellness Supplies

  • $200 provides one month of Home Essentials & Laundry

  • $100 provides one month of Heat, Gas, Water, and Electricity

  • $35 provides one day of mental health services / $195 provides one week of mental health services / $770 provides one month of mental health services

Click here to donate

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Learning about Regenerative Landscaping for the Home

Learning about Regenerative Landscaping for the Home

Pregnancy Month 5 / Sheltering at Home Month 9

Pregnancy Month 5 / Sheltering at Home Month 9