Jumbled Dreams Changing Lives

In the 8th grade, Sydnee served in her school’s Student Council. The school was involved in multiple community service activities including food drives, a school supplies drives and reading garden for a school in Gatlinburg that was destroyed in the 2016 fires, collecting over 5,000 items to make toiletry bags for the homeless in Nashville, and, of course, teacher appreciation. Upon enrolling in high school Sydnee started a club to create an awareness among her fellow students of the many volunteer opportunities available in the area. Through Jumbled Dreams, Sydnee identifies those volunteer opportunities and then recruits young people and educates them on how they can help change lives by volunteering for the particular cause. To date over 100 volunteers are working to make a difference in the lives of others in our community. Jumbled Dreams doesn’t support just one cause but many. There are needs everywhere. Over the past two years Jumbled Dreams has worked with over 30 different agencies to organize activities involving over 200 volunteers to collect, pack and distribute 107,300 pounds of food, 70,000 toiletries, 10,000 school supplies, 22,000 articles of clothing, shoes, coats, 5,000 toys, and over 20,000 dollars for the homeless and low income families. Volunteers also cooked meals and served them to the needy; helped needy parents shop for Christmas gifts for their children; collected school Operation Homefront, Jumbled Dreams, School Suppliessupplies for children of deployed soldiers; and assisted in clean-up after the homeless showered in a mobile shower unit. Special assistance was also given to tornado victims. Currently, Jumbled Dreams volunteers are seeking gift cards to fast food restaurants to distribute to the needy and homeless in our area. This will help the hungry to have food and will help the restaurants whose business has suffered during the Pandemic. Jumbled Dreams has also partnered with other organizations on various causes including bullying, blindness, Downs Syndrome, children, education/school, arts, disabilities, and orphans. Through social media, Jumbled Dreams website, and by word of mouth, others are encouraged to join the organization at events, donate to multiple causes, and post facts and information about the realities of the world. Through these experiences, people are able to see their help is needed and a simple act can change the lives of those who are helped – the homeless, the less fortunate, and the ones who simply need a smile or someone to show an interest in them. We hope to bring out the good in people and to show that together we can Timmy Tumbully, JUmbled reams, Making a Differencemake a difference in this world! We seek to shine a light on ways persons can donate, volunteer, or learn about other organizations. There are many who are passionate about changing the world, focusing on others, and giving all they have. This is how we change the world — especially when kids are recruited as volunteers and educated on how they can help change lives throughout their life. They have more power than anyone thinks they have, and they can make a huge difference. So many believe that if you can’t give a lot of money or sponsor a huge project that what you do won’t make a difference; this is so far from true. There are many who are passionate about changing the world, focusing on others, and giving all they have. This is how miracles happen; this is how lives are changed; this is how we change the world. So, what does Jumbled Dreams Changing Lives do? We change lives or, at least, every effort is made to do that.

Jumbled Dreams Changing Lives is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing education, support and guidance to persons in need. Their needs are as jumbled as the dreams of the people who have those dreams. Jumbled Dreams Changing Livess teaches youth, teens and families on how the kindness of one can greatly impact the lives of others and is committed to inspiring future generations to make a difference. This is accomplished through working with different groups and organizations to help them understand how easy it can be to give back and make a difference. While we work to help everyone with their dreams, Jumbled Dreams mission works primarily with those experiencing homelessness, hunger, bullying, childhood illness, and cancer. Everyone is broken at times and that’s okay because it’s through those cracks that we can see the goodness; through that goodness, we can make a dream come true and change a life. It is because of these jumbled dreams that this organization is reaching out to individuals, groups and organizations to urge they set goals to help others. Young people must be educated as to how they can change lives in the hope that they will continue those efforts throughout their life. But many adults must also be encouraged in this process. Each individual is encouraged to donate a minimum of $3 to $5 a month or more, if able, to a person in need, or to an organization of their choice, or to an organization selected by Jumbled Dreams. One never knows how a small gift can make a big change in the life of the person helped Through social media, our website and by word of mouth, we encourage others to join us to donate to multiple causes. Through these experiences, people are able to see their help is needed and a simple act can change a life. We work to help those experiencing homelessness by providing toiletry packs, winter kits, gently used clothing and shoes; to help those experiencing hunger by providing fuel packs and meals. In the future we plan to help those experiencing illness with donations to help pay for medical expenses; to help those experiencing bullying by talking with different groups and individuals about bullying and how to overcome it; and to help those experiencing cancer by donating funds to support the mission for a cure while also supporting those who are experiencing the dreadful disease. People are encouraged to write on our blog how they are working to help others and how we can do the same.