Meet Joanna Edwards of Thumbprint Cares Inc. in Dorchester

Thanks for sharing your story with us Joanna. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
My whole life has been in the human services field serving underprivileged or underserved populations of some capacity. I’ve always had a desire to empower people to tap into areas of their lives that they may not have acknowledged. Owning a real-estate brokerage with my husband and having the ability to influence others through homeownership heightened my desire to help others in a more significant way, through philanthropy. The idea of starting a non-profit organization, came naturally as we would find creative ways to give back to our clients and our community through hosting events like a Christmas toy giveaway for the children, backpacks, and school supplies giveaway during the summer and gift baskets for single moms. Knowing we had the capacity, and the resources to do these things made it a no-brainer to start a 501c3 organization where we can give back on a bigger platform. However, I didn’t want it to end there. I had a bigger vision for what I wanted this non-profit to represent. Having a real estate background and offering incentives to our clients, rewarding them on making one of the biggest purchase of their lives, we wanted to let people know on a bigger scale that homeownership is not impossible, knowledge is power, information is vital. At Thumbprint Cares Inc., we are committed to educating, empowering and building strong communities through homeownership, workshops and information gathering and service for action-driven individuals who are ready and able to receive life-changing information.