Eddie Brown on Clubhouse

Bio

🔧🚘Giving Words helps single mothers navigate expensive car repairs & transportation challenges that threaten the financial stability of the family.

Mission-driven PARTNERSHIPS allow us to leverage our resources and offer help well beyond the market value of each dollar. Our partners want to give back, and perform work at discounted rates.

www.givingwordsva.com

With an entrepreneur’s vision and a servant’s heart, I, Eddie Brown, along with my wife, started the non-profit Giving Words to help struggling single mothers address the ongoing trials of family management. With 23 years in all aspects of the housing industry and 9 years of owning my own business, I have uniquely developed my skills to design, organize, and market our ministry. I have created a network of over 60 partners in the central Virginia area to assist moms in various areas of needs such as car repair and gifting, home maintenance, counseling, budgeting, and appliance repair. Additionally, I have, with the assistance of Apricot software, designed a tailored system that can track all mothers, services, activities and volunteers. This program lays the foundation for our non-profit’s ability to be replicated in every county, state, or even in another country.
Reared by compassionate parents and mentored by selfless neighbors like a local foster mother who cared for drug-addicted babies, I realized before adulthood that I should actively care for the most vulnerable. Later in my adulthood after a divorce and losing custody of my children temporarily, this calling magnified. Later, I became a stepfather, then the primary caregiver of my elderly aunt, and four years ago, the custodial guardian of my infant granddaughter. Each of these experiences prepared me to identify and empathize with the overwhelming load of single parenting and to offer support and solutions to common problems that can derail the family.