She didn’t stay because she wanted to. She stayed because leaving costs money she didn’t have.
Be Still Foundation funds one thing: the full journey out. Twelve weeks of trauma therapy, coaching, and training — and then a real job with a salary and health benefits. $15,000 fills one seat. One seat is one woman.
until our founding cohort begins — September 1. We enroll only the women we have funded.
Our founding cohort — three women from Arizona shelters.
0 of 3 seats funded$0 raised toward this cohort’s $45,000 goal.
We enroll only the women we have funded. Every seat filled on this page is a woman who starts on September 1. Every seat still empty is a woman still waiting.
Nothing about this is free.
A shelter bed doesn’t cost money — it costs sleep, safety, and the constant work of watching your back. A protective order costs a lawyer most survivors can’t afford. A new job costs a resume with an unexplained gap. Every door out has a price, whether it’s paid in dollars or in what’s left of you after years of vigilance. The system treats one night as an emergency and everything after as someone else’s problem.
A gap where a career should be
Years out of the workforce — often because an abuser made working impossible — read as a red flag to employers who never hear the reason.
Healing that no employer pays for
Trauma doesn’t pause for a job. Therapy is the thing that makes steady work possible, and it’s the first thing there’s no money for.
Programs that end at the door
Most training ends with a certificate and a handshake. She is sent to compete for a job she has no network, no confidence, and no reference to win.
What financial abuse actually looks like.
A short look at how financial abuse keeps women trapped — and what it takes to get out.
Twelve weeks. Then a paycheck.
One gift of $15,000 covers a survivor’s entire Surviving → Thriving program — the healing and the training together, because neither works alone. It ends the way no other program does: with an offer of employment.
Safety & footing
Trauma therapy begins. Routine, stability, and a support team she can name. No pressure to perform.
Skill & voice
Bookkeeping and accounting software training, professional certifications, and the workplace skills trauma teaches people to suppress.
Real work, supported
Supervised client work, practice recovering from a hard day, and a transition plan — not a graduation cliff.
Hired
She is employed by our affiliated firm, Be Still Analytics, with a salary, health, dental, and vision coverage — and coaching that continues.
You fund her once. Her work funds the rest.
Most charitable giving has to be renewed every year because the need never changes. Ours is built to end. After she’s hired, the accounting work she does for real clients pays for her own salary and benefits — and within roughly six to twelve months, she is fully self-sustaining.
Fill a vessel, or help fill one together.
Every gift is counted toward a specific seat. You’ll know which one your money filled — and Full Seat Sponsors and above receive a personal update on her progress, shared with her consent.
Fund all three remaining seats yourself. Every woman in this founding cohort starts on September 1 because of you alone.
Give $45,000 →Fund two women's entire journeys, start to hired. Two seats turn gold because of you.
Give $30,000 →You fund one woman's entire journey, start to hired. One seat on this page turns gold because of you.
Give $15,000 →Roughly three weeks of therapy, coaching, and training for one survivor.
Give $3,750 →Every gift goes to the next seat in line until it's full. Nothing is too small to move a woman forward.
Give what you can →Corporate sponsor or foundation considering a larger commitment? See sponsorship levels & benefits — structured outside the tiers above. Looking to hire a graduate instead? Learn how to partner.
Built to Big 4 standards. Delivered with total dignity.
Four years inside KPMG taught Margaret something the audit reports never mentioned: clients with money are treated with a level of respect and care that the legal system rarely extends to domestic violence survivors who have none. Same country, same institutions — a completely different standard of dignity, depending on what you can pay.
Be Still Analytics closes that gap. Every woman who comes through is treated like a Big 4 client — not because it’s charity, but because that’s the baseline standard of respect she was never given when it mattered most.
Be Still Foundation provides the healing and the training.
Be Still Analytics — a real, working accounting firm — provides the job. Not a simulation of one. A firm competing for real clients, staffed in part by the women it exists to serve, held to the same standard Margaret saw applied to paying clients at KPMG.
The mission isn’t just a paycheck. It’s workforce empowerment — building the self-esteem and self-sufficiency that make freedom permanent, not just possible. We track that: real roles filled, wages earned, women who never return to an abuser because they no longer have to choose between safety and survival.
We’ll tell you exactly what we are.
Be Still Foundation is launching. We have not graduated a cohort yet, and we won’t claim outcomes we haven’t earned. What we have is a complete twelve-week program, a firm ready to hire, three identified women from Arizona shelters waiting on a seat, and a measurement framework that will track every participant’s progress from day one. Your gift is what turns that readiness into a real September 1 start — and you will see exactly what it produced.
Three seats are open. Fill one.
The cohort begins September 1. We enroll only the women we have funded — so a seat filled today is a life that changes this fall.