Charity Changemaker
Built by Lived Experience.
Proven by Impact.
Charity Changemaker helps purpose-driven people build, strengthen, and sustain charities through practical guidance rooted in real-world nonprofit leadership. This initiative is grounded in lived experience, long-term leadership, and lessons learned through doing the work — not theory.
Andrea Paquette
About the Founder
Charity Changemaker is founded by Andrea Paquette.
Andrea is the President and Founder of Stigma Free Mental Health Society and the creator of the Bipolar Babe brand. Over the past sixteen years, she has built and led charitable organizations from the ground up, guided by lived experience, persistence, and a deep belief in the power of thoughtful change.
Along the way, Andrea has been approached by countless individuals who are starting charities, leading nonprofits, or holding ideas they do not yet know how to bring to life. She is often asked for her insight on where to begin, how to grow responsibly, and how to build something meaningful that can evolve over time.
Charity Changemaker grew from that ongoing conversation.
This work reflects Andrea’s passion for helping others turn meaningful ideas into real, sustainable organizations. It is about supporting people who want to build with care, intention, and integrity, and who believe that impact is strongest when it is grounded in lived experience.
Charity Changemaker exists to support those building change with purpose and clarity.
What We’re Building
Charity Changemaker is being built as a thoughtful and practical space for people who want to create meaningful change and do it well.
This work is informed by lived experience, long term charity leadership, and the realities of building organizations that last. It is designed for founders, leaders, and changemakers who care deeply about impact and want clarity, structure, and sustainability alongside purpose.
Advisory
Guidance for individuals and groups navigating the early and evolving stages of charity work. This includes support in thinking through vision, governance, leadership roles, and long term sustainability, with a focus on avoiding common pitfalls, overwhelm, and burnout.
Education
Learning opportunities that translate real world experience into practical insight. Webinars, workshops, and resources will explore what it actually takes to build and grow a charity beyond good intentions, including structure, strategy, culture, and decision making.
Lived Experience Leadership
A grounded approach to leadership that values insight gained through experience, not just credentials. Charity Changemaker centers the human side of building organizations, recognizing that strong charities are built by people who understand complexity, resilience, and responsibility.
This work is unfolding intentionally and will launch in phases.
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