To All Members of the Good Fairy Community:

As of March, 2025 -- on the 5th year anniversary of our founding at the beginning of the COVID pandemic -- Good Fairy has decided to discontinue all operations in Marin County and beyond.

We've had a fantastic run of five years serving our community through a dedicated team of volunteers who simply wanted to make a difference by helping their neighbors.  We are deeply indebted to everyone who has been involved with Good Fairy since our beginning during COVID lockdown in March 2020; what began as a way to provide structure around the needs that many people had in the community has turned into a wonderful community resource that has become self-sustaining as people continue to help each other with the practical and emotional challenges of life.

The many existing Good Fairy partnerships will continue through the direct communication of people who have been matched together previously. Going forward, however, we will not be able to accept any new requests (via the website or phone/text/voicemail) nor will we actively match existing requests to volunteers.

Our hope is that people in need can utilize the Good Fairy social media groups -- our group on NextDoor (now more than 2,100 members strong) as well as those groups on Instagram and Facebook -- to ask for help and to offer volunteer support.  Members of the Good Fairy team will continue to participate in the social groups but will not actively manage the matching or resolution processes between those in need and volunteers. We will continue to make our countywide resource links available on the "Helpful Links" page of our website, which helps people identify many of the other resources at your disposal in Marin.

We'd like to offer a special thank you to Penny Macphail who, as the driving force of Good Fairy, has earned a special spot in the heart of our community and helped remind us all about how special a place we all live in. As portrayed in this video when she was selected as one of NextDoor's "Top 100" Neighbors worldwide, Penny's compassion, creativity and commitment to making a difference set the stage for all of our volunteers to aspire to. We've created many friendships, shared many successes and proved that even a group of volunteers offering all of their services for free can help change the trajectory of a community. The community offers our thanks and love to Penny for her relentless pursuit of serving others.

Finally, THANK YOU FAIRY MUCH for your involvement in making Good Fairy a truly memorable and valuable resource for our community!

Best Regards,

Jeff on behalf of the Good Fairy Core Team of Penny, Jeff and Michele