What is Paying it Forward?

Paying It Forward is Live at Choice's opportunity to serve others.  Through the years we have made contributions to deserving organizations through scholarships, cash contributions, and books sales.  Some of the recipients we are honored to serve through these contributions are:

Deaf Hope
www.deaf-hope.org
www.emagazine.ewomennetwork.com/07_Summer/index.html

For donations or to learn more about what they need, go to: www.deaf-hope.org

DeafHope is a nonprofit organization, established for and by Deaf women in January 2003. Our mission at DeafHope is to end domestic violence and sexual assault against Deaf women and children through empowerment, education and services.

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On the evening of June 7th, 2007, lives were changed.  All of those involved didn't know it yet, but they were changed just the same.  That evening, Belanie Dishong, Founder of Live At Choice LLC, learned of Julie Rems-Smario and DeafHope.  She was compelled to talk with Julie and to learn more about the DeafHope mission and organization. 

Live at Choice is about giving people new starts - a chance to break free of the shackles from their past.  If ever anyone needed Live at Choice and the freedom that it offers, it was the women (and men) of DeafHope.  Belanie learned of a community of people that she could reach out to and help that she had, honestly, never thought of before.  Her eyes were opened to the possibility of thousands, perhaps millions, of people in the world that, like those associated with DeafHope, desperately needed her help.  She saw an opportunity to "serve" DeafHope in a way that would empower the DeafHope "survivors" beyond what the DeafHope organization was currently able to take their survivors... Read More>>