About — Create Aid
A movement toward the provision of aid for persons in need.
The Create Aid Organization marks a movement toward the provision of aid for persons in need. We provide aid by raising funds & awareness for suffering sectors of the world population.
Our goal is to help connect individuals suffering from physical, emotional and mental distress to existing services that can provide them with the help they may be seeking.
In an effort to combine civic social services with creativity, Create Aid supplements civic resources by selling works of Art and occasionally proposing and curating creative projects that address both basic and complex Humanitarian Issues.
Sophia Goehner — Founder, 2010
Founder
A vision born of art & empathy.
Sophia Goehner founded Create Aid in 2010 with a simple conviction: that creativity and compassion are inseparable forces, and that design has a responsibility to the world it shapes. What began as a personal practice of channeling proceeds from her design work toward people in crisis grew into a grassroots organization devoted to pairing creative expression with humanitarian aid.
Trained as a designer and shaped by years of community work, Sophia built Create Aid around the belief that the act of making — and the act of giving — belong to the same gesture. Under her direction, the organization has connected individuals in physical, emotional and mental distress to the services that can help them, while supporting designers and artists whose work bears witness to the issues that matter most.
More than a decade in, her vision still anchors the movement: aid through design, art, awareness, and action — offered with care, sustained by community.
Art Gallery
A grassroots movement for the appreciation, promotion and education of the Arts.
Create Aid also runs an Online Artist Residency / Art Gallery which works to create a grassroots movement for the appreciation, promotion and education of the Arts.
With the sale of Artwork we support Artists and the Causes they feel passionate to contribute to.
Intentions
Our intentions, set in ink.
- 01Cultivate Compassion.
- 02Nurture Creativity.
- 03Address Homelessness.
- 04Assist Those In Poverty.
- 05Fight Discrimination.
- 06End Human Slavery.
- 07Control Gun Violence.
- 08Understand Mental Illness.
- 09Teach Tolerance.
- 10Create Spiritual Awareness.
- 11Strengthen Bonds.
- 12Build Support Systems.
- 13Pursue Dreams.
- 14Actualize Intentions.
- 15Transform Systems.
- 16Combat Pollution.
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Whether by supporting an artist, donating to a cause, or sharing the work — every action extends aid further.
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