Happy New Year! We are excited to announce our January Live Salem non-profit partner is Isaac’s Room. You may know Isaac’s Room as the Ike Box which is located on the corner of Cottage and Chemeketa Streets downtown. Our friends Mark and Tiffany Bulgin run the non-profit and the Ike Box as an avenue for their non-profit to connect with our community. We are excited to be involved with Isaac’s Room and help them share their mission with our community this month.
Isaac’s Room provides experiences that build character, confidence and skills in a community of people living life with intentionality, intelligence and heart.
They invest in kids by building critical work skills in a team concept through an IKE Quest internship at the IKE Box, the family business of Isaac’s Room.
Isaac’s Room is piloting a new variation of IKE Quest called Heroes In Training, helping kids discover the hero within through service learning opportunities in the community.
Through all of these experiences, supported by mentoring and other positive relationships, they see kids through the transformation from divested to invested from powerless to empowered, from liability to asset.
An easy way to get involved in the mission of Isaac’s Room is to shoot them an email. Tiffany can be reached at tiffany@ikebox.com.
You can also have a significant impact if you want to volunteer your time or invest in their cause.
Volunteer Impact
One hour of volunteering for Isaac’s Room can teach 10-15 young people a critical life skill like budgeting and saving, or shipping and cooking for healthy eating.
A volunteer can also help fix tings in this wonderfully unpredictable 120-year-old building — frees up our staff to do what they do best.
Monetary Impact
$5 – Pays for a notebook full of Key Ideas – ideas that unlock new possibilities in life – for an IKE participant.
$25 – Pays for two weeks of mentoring for an IKE Quest participant.
$50 – Pays for a day on the Oregon National Guard ropes course, including three meals and a life-changing experience, for an IKE Quest participant.