Simone Gordon has turned her social media network, bankrolled by individual donors, into a nonprofit helping minority communities.
— with a paid staff and two volunteers in each state. People can apply for help via a form on the website, which requires applicants to submit various forms of documentation
She had to quit her job at a merchandising company because of the lack of child care due to school closings. The occasional work she found wasn't enough to pay bills and keep her family fed. She said that within 48 hours of reaching out to Gordon on Instagram, there were groceries at her house. But that wasn't the end of the help. Murray said she always wanted to be a nurse.
“I had a breakdown because everything was hitting me, my son didn't understand why he couldn't go outside. I was confined in a house and people were just emailing and emailing. And my team members, have actual jobs and they were still volunteers. And some of the followers who were volunteers just didn't understand and they were getting overwhelmed. And I felt like I was failing the people,” she said.
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