Tips for Starting a Non-Profit with Flowers with Lisa Schmitz




Team Flower show

Summary: Joining Kelly today is Team Flower member, Lisa Schmitz of Where Pigs Fly And Such. Lisa has such a special and unique business model—floral design that supports her non-profit. Today you’ll hear about each of the following: - Tips for starting a non profit - Taking donations - Using floral design to fund a non-profit - Wording in your contract for a bride to donate flowers - Unlikely helpful tool in washing buckets (find it here!) Lisa has a love for the arts. After leaving an executive HR position in corporate America in 2018, Lisa created her floral consultancy Where Pigs Fly and such, which is part of a nonprofit community arts center that Lisa and her husband founded in a low income area of Indianapolis. As co-founder, Lisa manages the arts center, which is focused on providing arts and community outreach programming for their neighborhood. Her floral design business, that focuses on events and weddings, supports this arts center. Lisa continues to do public speaking and HR consulting, and she was recently chosen for the inaugural Art in Bloom exhibit at Newfields Indianapolis Museum of Art. Follow her on social @wherepigsflyandsuch or click here to view her website.