simply luxe gives back

Giving Back

Philanthropy has always been part of how Ryen Toft runs Simply Luxe. Simply Luxe donates up to 3% of profits each year to causes we love, supporting women, kids and pets. Our team is happiest when an organized home also means a little more good in the world, from rescue dogs finding families to kids who know someone is in their corner.

rescue pups

Dogs who need a home

The Barking Lot, Ramona

Walks, posts and happy tails

Ryen volunteers with The Barking Lot, walking the pups and helping with social media so more dogs get seen and rescued. The Barking Lot, working with Soi Dog, has helped save 1,300+ dogs, and we are proud supporters.

Meet their adoptable dogs

The Animal Pad

Donations, rescues and organizing

Simply Luxe has donated to The Animal Pad and rescued from them: Sugar, one of Ryen’s two mini retrievers, came home from Mexico through The Animal Pad. We have also organized for the rescue’s owner, a Simply Luxe client for years.

Visit The Animal Pad

soi dog foundation

Flying rescue dogs home

Soi Dog Foundation rescues and cares for dogs and cats in Thailand, and many adopted animals can only reach their new families overseas with a traveler by their side. Ryen did an interview to promote Soi Dog’s Flight Buddy program, because it is one of the easiest ways to change a dog’s life: Soi Dog handles the paperwork, crates and check-in, and you simply fly. Honey, Ryen’s other mini retriever and the team’s favorite supervisor, was rescued from Phuket through Soi Dog and The Barking Lot, which work together.

Ryen Toft smiling on a stool surrounded by stacked pet travel crates during her Soi Dog Foundation Flight Buddy interview
Ryen’s Flight Buddy interview for Soi Dog Foundation
Soi Dog Foundation team at the airport with a row of travel crates holding adopted dogs ready to fly to their new homes with Flight Buddies
Adopted pups ready to fly with their Flight Buddies

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women

Women’s foundations

Simply Luxe donates to and is part of foundations that support women’s health. We have given back with The Clearity Foundation, now part of the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance (OCRA). Clearity focuses on science-based education and support for women and families facing an ovarian cancer diagnosis, and OCRA funds ovarian and gynecologic cancer research and offers patient and family support programs.

Ryen Toft taking a smiling selfie with fellow supporters around an outdoor dinner table at a Clearity Foundation gathering
With fellow supporters at a Clearity Foundation gathering
Ryen Toft smiling with three fellow supporters on a lawn at sunset during a Clearity Foundation evening
Sunset with fellow Clearity Foundation supporters

Learn about Clearity and OCRA

kids

Showing up for kids

Ryen was a CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) volunteer for 10 years, and supporting kids has always been close to her heart. Most recently she attended the Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Diego County gala in Point Loma to support their one-to-one youth mentoring.

Ryen Toft laughing with three fellow guests at the Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Diego County gala in Point Loma
Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Diego County gala, Point Loma
Ryen Toft and a fellow guest at sunset above the ocean at the Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Diego County gala in Point Loma
Sunset at the gala

Visit Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Diego County

kids and families

Humble Design + Monarch School

These two go hand in hand. Humble Design San Diego supports neighbors who have recently secured housing after experiencing homelessness, turning donated furniture and household goods into homes, and Monarch School partners with unhoused students and their families in San Diego. Ryen has read to the Monarch kids and donated a copy of her book Bee A Dreamer to every child at the school.

Inside the Humble Design San Diego warehouse, with the Humble Design sign, donation bags and a storage bin ready to be sorted
At the Humble Design San Diego warehouse
Ryen Toft and Simply Luxe team member Terah at Humble Design San Diego
Ryen and Simply Luxe team member Terah at Humble Design San Diego

Visit Humble Design San DiegoVisit Monarch School

kids and reading

Storytime with Reading Legacies

Ryen read her children’s book Bee A Dreamer for Reading Legacies Storytime, a San Diego nonprofit that builds family connection through shared reading, and she loves reading it aloud at local schools: Garden Road Elementary in Poway, an elementary school in Rancho Santa Fe, a school in Orange County, and Ramona Elementary, close to home for this Ramona High graduate. At Ramona Elementary, every student she read to went home with their own signed copy.

Ryen Toft sitting on the stage steps reading Bee A Dreamer aloud to students at an elementary school in Rancho Santa Fe
Reading Bee A Dreamer in Rancho Santa Fe
Students at Garden Road Elementary in Poway raising their hands at a Bee A Dreamer assembly, with the book projected on a large screen
Hands up at Garden Road Elementary, Poway
Ryen Toft reading a picture book aloud at the front of a classroom at a school in Orange County while students sit on the rug listening
Reading aloud at a school in Orange County
Ryen Toft reading Bee A Dreamer to first- and second-graders in the library at Ramona Elementary School in Ramona
Reading to first- and second-graders at Ramona Elementary
Ramona Sentinel clipping, March 28, 2019: Ramona High grad reads her new book to students, with a photo of Ramona Elementary parent Angela Jauregui and author Ryen Toft holding copies of Bee A Dreamer
in the news

“Ramona High grad reads her new book to students”

Ramona Sentinel, March 28, 2019, by Julie Gallant. The paper covered Ryen’s March 22 reading for first- and second-graders at Ramona Elementary, where each student received a free autographed copy of Bee A Dreamer. A portion of the book’s royalties goes to the Planet Bee Foundation.

Buy Bee A DreamerWatch the read-aloud

Proceeds from Bee A Dreamer benefit Planet Bee Foundation and Reading Legacies. Affiliate link: as an Amazon Associate, Simply Luxe earns from qualifying purchases.

Planet Bee Foundation

For the bees

A portion of every Bee A Dreamer sale goes to the book’s nonprofit partner, the Planet Bee Foundation, which teaches kids to become environmental stewards.

Visit Planet Bee Foundation

Every project

Donations, done for you

When clients edit their homes, we help them decide what to keep, donate or let go. Donation runs are available for an additional cost, so good things find a second home.

giving baskets

Causes we’ve supported

Simply Luxe donates custom organizing gift baskets to charity events and auctions, filled with the bins, labels and favorite products we use every day. Here are the organizations we have been proud to support.

Animals

Women

Kids & Families

Community

Recognized by: Susan G. Komen San Diego Impact Luncheon silent auction (OneCause) and San Diego Moms, Noon Year Celebration recap (2022).

Before: a local family’s pantry items pulled out and sorted on folding tables in the driveway during a Simply Luxe community give back
Before: everything out, sorted and edited
After: the family’s walk-in pantry restocked with clear canisters, labeled bins and neatly grouped food on wood shelves
After: the family’s finished pantry, 2021

Make room for what matters

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