Passionate about giving back

Melinda Minton has been volunteering all of her life. As a young person Minton enjoyed building compost bins and community gardens for inner city dwellers to grow fresh vegetables,re-building homes destroyed by hurricanes, working with Amnesty International and donating time to the elderly were all favorite activities.

As an adult Minton actively works with:

  • The Rockefeller International Foundation helping with business and financial planning for worldwide projects in developing countries.
  • Amnesty International which is focused on international human rights.
  • Water.org providing resources for women and girls who spend hours every day just getting water—oftentimes not potable.
  • Red Cross working on events that give to an international resource that is seemingly everywhere when disaster strikes.
  • World Vision by donating goats, chickens and real resources to families and villages in Africa.
  • Trees, Water, People funding stoves and marketing coffee to decrease deforestation in Central America.