SPRING 2025 - WDM’S FIRST QUARTER
A quick note before we dive in: Technically, this was the second quarter of 2025 — but honestly, don’t be a narc. For us, April - June marked our very first quarter in business, and I’m incredibly proud of what we accomplished. We got our business license, secured our tax IDs, opened a bank account, launched a website and newsletter, and even created a one-of-a-kind Mutual Aid Fund to facilitate neighbors putting dollars directly in each other’s hands. And that’s not even counting all the lawns Westley mowed.
Anyway, launching Working Dog 2.0 with Westley — the “official” version of this project that he began last year — has been the adventure of a lifetime for me so far. I still can’t believe how much we got done in just 90 days, all while he was enrolled full time in welding school and I had a whole other full time job.
Three cheers for us, and three million thanks to you, the community making this dream a reality. (Nobody tell him how much I love being his Brother in Business, though. Wouldn’t want to let the cat out of the bag on that one.)
and now the Financial report
As you’d expect, the report is pretty short this quarter. It’s WDM Day 91 as I write this, so, you know… not a lot to say just yet. Here’s what I’ve got, though.
community support Pricing
Since the Mutual Aid Fund didn’t launch until July 1st, the only thing I have to report for Community Support Pricing is that I finally learned how to track this stuff in Quickbooks. And that alone is pretty sick if you ask me.
extended giving
June was our first month with a net profit! Exciting! Again, since the Mutual Aid Fund didn’t launch until the quarter was over, the only contribution it got was our 5% monthly profit pledge.
We sent that $36 to Waleed, a teenager in Gaza who reached out to us on Instagram, and we intend to continue trying to share his story and support him however we can.
Waleed and I have been chatting over the last month, and he shared with me that he is 17 years old and supporting eleven immediate family members. Before the Israeli attacks in October of 2023, he was a student. He now spends his days with his family looking for firewood and shelter. Due to price gouging, basic supplies such as flour, vegetables, and soap can cost up to $90 or more a day.
If you’d like to support Waleed and his family as well, you can access his GoFundMe here. Please send him what you can.
the duality, man.
I don’t know what to tell you, but the duality of reporting both our exciting new-business-business-guy news and our meager attempt at supporting a child in a genocide feels like quite a contrast, so I’ll end the report on this:
All I know is that both of these things are happening and true.
The breadth of human experiences being experienced simultaneously in 2025 is beyond prodigious (the biggest word I could think of to say “big”).
All I can do is be honest about the one I’m experiencing, and that looks like this - We started a business, and I am so proud of us. Working Dog is already deeply rooted in our values, and that means we use what we have to be of service to everyone we can, however we can, even when what we can do can’t stop a genocide. We still get to try. Free Palestine and be a good neighbor when you can. After all, all we really have is each other.