choose your impact


Join us in supporting local and national organizations working to effect positive, progressive change. Lo & Behold would like to reward your compassion and activism with a discount in exchange for a commitment to:

  • volunteer your time or donate money to an organization that helps build a more just world

  • dedicate time to environmental or social stewardship

  • engage in mentorship for young people

  • attend a rally, protest, march, or vigil in your town

If you are unable to donate or have other constructive ideas for engagement please let us know. Ways to engage are endless.

We hope this program incentivizes creative contributions - not just monetary ones - to help spark long-term participation and continued, determined action.

The discount code is offered on the honor system. Use promo code Impact5 for 5% off or Impact10 for 10% off - whichever you think is appropriate.

If you would like to share what efforts you are involved with or who you are donating to, please let us know in the comments section of your order, or on social media! We would love to hear from you.


 

Below are several other organizations that we support. This list may change from time to time to help give visibility to different causes.

 
The Black Mental Health Fund
Transgender Law Center logo
 
 
Love the Land logo
 
 
 
Black Youth Project 100 logo
Color of Change
 
Campaign Zero Logo
 

LGbtq Center Durham

“The LGBTQ Center of Durham commits to centering the experiences of those who are the most marginalized among us. With a history of providing services supplementing this commitment, we continue to strive to set an example for other communities and organizations to prioritize lifting our family up. With the Host Home Program, LGBTQ+ Youth Center, a re-centered Pride, and other gender inclusive support programs, we are aligned with the promise of serving QTPOC. Our services are open to the entire community and seek to make room for all people..”

 

Compassion Access Project

"The mission of The Compassion Access Project is to increase access of medicinal herbs to folks who have been historically marginalized. The Compassion Access Project prioritizes care for BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and Neurodivergent Folks."

 

the black mental health fund

“The Black Mental Health Fund directly supports our Black queer and trans practitioners in providing free and more accessible mental health care to Black queer and trans clients.
While all practitioners at Radical Healing reserve space for free and sliding scale-reduced fee clients, the demand for socially responsible, antiracist, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ centered care exceeds our supply. Support for this fund is vital to ensuring sustained access to critical care and removing barriers to treatment for our Black queer and trans community.”

 

Transgender Law Center

“Transgender Law Center (TLC) is the largest national trans-led organization advocating for a world in which all people are free to define themselves and their futures. Grounded in legal expertise and committed to racial justice, TLC employs a variety of community-driven strategies to keep transgender and gender nonconforming people alive, thriving, and fighting for liberation.”

 

Southerner’s on new ground (Song)

“SONG is a home for LGBTQ liberation across all lines of race, class, abilities, age, culture, gender, and sexuality in the South. We build, sustain, and connect a southern regional base of LGBTQ people in order to transform the region through strategic projects and campaigns developed in response to the current conditions in our communities. SONG builds this movement through leadership development, intersectional analysis, and organizing.”

 

Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement (Familia:TQLM)

“We are committed to the collective liberation of trans, queer, and gender nonconforming Latinxs to build power and (re)imagine our communities free from oppression. We seek to abolish the systems that marginalize, criminalize, imprison, and kill our people. We are building on the legacy of racial justice and liberation movements.”

 

Sister Song

“SisterSong is a Southern based, national membership organization; our purpose is to build an effective network of individuals and organizations to improve institutional policies and systems that impact the reproductive lives of marginalized communities.

SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective was formed in 1997 by 16 organizations of women of color from four mini-communities (Native American, African American, Latina, and Asian American) who recognized that we have the right and responsibility to represent ourselves and our communities, and the equally compelling need to advance the perspectives and needs of women of color.”

 

Durham Crisis Response Center

“Durham Crisis Response Center (DCRC) is the sole provider of comprehensive shelter and support services to survivors of domestic, sexual and family violence and human trafficking in the Durham area. DCRC’s continuum of service includes a 24-Hour Help Line; emergency shelter; safety planning; crisis intervention; information and referrals for job training, housing, and childcare; counseling and support groups; legal advocacy; assistance with filing for victim compensation; hospital accompaniment; community education and outreach.

All of DCRC’s services are confidential, free and offered in English and Spanish. DCRC also offers educational workshops and professional training for service providers, law enforcement, hospitals, faith-based organizations, schools, civic groups, and other community members.”

 

The Loveland Foundation

“Loveland Foundation is committed to showing up for communities of color in unique and powerful ways, with a particular focus on Black women and girls. Our resources and initiatives are collaborative and they prioritize opportunity, access, validation, and healing. We are becoming the ones we’ve been waiting for.”

 

supermajority

“Founded by a team of women who have been organizing for decades, Supermajority is a membership-based home for women’s activism that affirms and builds women’s power, training and mobilizing a community of all ages, races, and backgrounds to become the most effective advocates they can be and build a more equitable future for ALL women.”

 

BYP100 (Black Youth Project 100)

“BYP100 is a national, member-based organization of Black 18-35 year old activists and organizers, dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all Black people. We do this through building a network focused on transformative leadership development, direct action organizing, advocacy, and political education using a Black queer feminist lens.”

 

Color Of Change

“Color Of Change is the nation’s largest online racial justice organization. We help people respond effectively to injustice in the world around us. As a national online force driven by 1.7 million members, we move decision-makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people in America.”

 

Campaign zero

“Campaign ZERO was developed with contributions from activists, protesters and researchers across the nation. This data-informed platform presents comprehensive solutions to end police violence in America. It integrates community demands and policy recommendations from research organizations and President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing. Together, we will win.”

 
Nurturing Familias to Live Out Their Dreams logo

El Futuro

“El Futuro is a one-of-a-kind place where Spanish speaking immigrants can access culturally-responsive mental health services. We are a community-based program, founded as a volunteer effort in 2001 to meet the otherwise unmet need for bilingual mental health services for the growing Latino immigrant community in North Carolina.”

Durham Community Land Trustees logo

Durham Community Land Trustees(DCLT)

“Durham Community Land Trustees (DCLT) is a community land trust that builds strong communities by developing, managing, and advocating for permanent affordable housing that offers Durham residents with low and moderate incomes a stable foundation for achieving economic security in Durham, NC. DCLT was established by neighborhood residents of the West End who demanded better housing conditions.”