Welolo (2026)

12/01/2023

How about that sunshine today Boise? ☀️

Raise your hand if you got out there and felt it on your shoulders. ✋

The Welolo team was certainly happy about it.

Happy Wednesday!

09/01/2023

At Welolo, we don’t believe in waiting for holidays, birthdays or anniversaries to acknowledge the people in our lives who matter the most.

Nor do we believe we should wait for specific days of “appreciation” to celebrate the people in our community who oftentimes do jobs and work in environments that provide us peace of mind, security and comfort.

However, with that being said…

…drum roll please…

Today is Law Enforcement Appreciation day, so let’s take a moment to say thank you to the men and women in the treasure valley and around the country who wear the uniform. It’s why Welolo exists, random acts of micro generosity that supports both the local businesses we love and the people in our community who make living in this city pretty sweet.

Here’s Sgt. Adam Nielsen with , when he stopped by for a drink paid for by the community through Welolo. Thank you Sgt for your work in our community!

Here’s three ways you can help us support law enforcement today: 1. Pay it forward through Welolo to someone in law enforcement (or to the community law enforcement pot) through our website, link in bio 2.) Tag someone in law enforcement below 3. Tell someone in law enforcement about Welolo.
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08/01/2023

Ok, so, we want you to picture something…

You send your friend a Welolo, here’s what you’ve just done:

You supported a locally owned business by purchasing from them (heck yeah!).
You flexed your generosity muscle (which like all exercise, always feels good).
You introduced your friend to a new local business, could be their new favorite spot.
You spread the word about a local business AND gave them a new customer, who is potentially a returning customer (this both supports and helps a business grow)…

If you see what we’re talking about here, we’re amplifying value, your $20 gift is supporting a local business, giving a gift to your friend while marketing that local business at the same time.

It’s a win/win/win proposition. Everyone wins in this deal.

Ask anyone in the restaurant industry and you’ll hear that this is a tough time of year.

Post holidays (where we all spent more than we had planned), post new years (we’re all only eating kale), and add to that the state of the economy and yes, it’s a hard time of year for the locally owned restaurants in the treasure valley.

Our offer is to support a locally owned business from right where you are, all you gotta do is wiggle your fingers around a bit, click the link in our bio and click “Pay it forward at Alchemist Coffee”. We’re still in our first month and currently only launched with , but we’ve already got our next phase of partners lined up and we’ll be launching with them soon 🚀, we can’t wait to add more awesome local businesses.

The link is also in our stories. Happy Saturday Boise, hope you gotta feel a little of that sweet January sunshine today.

06/01/2023

Have you hit up the on 27th and Stewart street yet? If not, do yourself a favor and go there. It’s a beautiful space with cozy couches, big beautiful windows, lots of seating, great food and drinks (our favorite is the spicy bacon burrito, yuuummmm), and a huge bonus is that it’s got easy and free parking (yes the holy grail).

We’re proud to be partnered with Alchemist, they embody Welolo’s core values and they’ve been extremely generous with their time, talents, resources, etc…. They’ve let us use them as the guinea pig to work out any quirks with Welolo and they’ve helped more than we can say.

Here’s a look at their space on 27th and Stewart, if you walk in this is what you’ll see, minus the man (well, most likely 😂.)

We’re all in this together Boise 💛.

04/01/2023

One of our five groups that you can pay it forward to through Welolo is Education.

We think it’s important to define what we mean by that.

Yes teachers absolutely, but we want to extend that to anyone in education, this includes but isn’t limited to:

-Teachers
-Lunchroom Workers
-Environmental Services
-Janitors
-Bus Drivers
-Crossing Guards
-ANYONE and EVERYONE in education
-Is there anyone we’re missing here that you can think of? h

Tag someone below in education and let them know that there’s a gifted cup of coffee waiting for them at our partners (currently we’re only launched with , but more partners coming soon.)

Happy New Year Boise!

02/01/2023

Happy New Year Boise!

We want you to know that the heart behind Welolo is community, specifically you, the true community and people of Boise.

We’re a platform that promotes and makes generosity easy, but the reason we do this is to support the community of Boise.

The small local businesses, the mom and pops shops, locally owned and operated, serving this community with their hands and hearts.

The servants of our community, those in: military, education, law enforcement, fire department or health care.

And those who can’t afford a cup of coffee, and are going through a difficult time in life.

We are all in this together. We are all the community of Boise together. We’re here to help us all rise, together.

If you feel drawn to what we’re doing, there’s four things you can do to support us (and only one of them costs money): 1. Gift a Welolo to a friend or group. 2. Tag a friend below who would align with our vision 3. Join our newsletter at the link in our bio 4. Simply share this post.

Much love Boise, we appreciate you all 💛.

31/12/2022

"Do all the good you can,
 By all the means you can,
 In all the ways you can,
 In all the places you can, 
At all the times you can, 
To all the people you can, 
As long as ever you can." 
— John Wesley

Yessss, John Wesley hits the nail right on the head right here with this quote, we could not agree more.

Happy Friday Boise!

29/12/2022

Look, we’re about so much more than just our platform for paying it forward. We are about creating and empowering a movement of generosity, and while yes we built our platform to be a part of it, the core of what we’re about is so much bigger than Welolo can ever be.

To add to this movement, we’re starting our monthly newsletter, The Generosity Journal, after the new year.

The Generosity Journal will be a place to hear updates about Welolo, get inspiration about generosity and connect with our community.

If you’re in this with us, please sign up for The Generosity Journal at the link in our bio or in our stories.

Much love Boise.

27/12/2022

We’re headed into those post holiday lulls, winter (and even worse, the inversion), is here in full force, anyone else missing the sunshine out there? (Hands go up 🙋‍♂️🙋🏽‍♀️).

Let’s keep the good holiday vibes rolling and keep paying it forward out there. Is there someone that you’re especially grateful for this year, a friend, a mentor, a coach, one of your kids’ teachers?

Visit welolo.app and send them a Welolo for their favorite cup of coffee at and let them know you’re grateful for the difference they’ve made in your life this year.

Much love Boise!

25/12/2022

As we head into the holiday, we’re filled with such deep gratitude, for our community in Boise, for our partner businesses, and all of the people that have gone to great lengths to bring Welolo into a reality.

Coming up with an idea is one thing, but making it a reality that functions in the real world is another and we’ve had so much help and community support along the way to get Welolo launched in Boise, and it warms our hearts to see people sending and redeeming Welolo’s everyday.

We believe this generosity is contagious, and we exist to promote generosity and to make it easier for each of us to offer it to others.

Tremendous thank you to , Kris and Tyler and their team have offered us so much time and talent and the space to launch our imperfect idea and perfect it through their business, we cannot tell you how much they’ve given us out of their own generosity.

Thank you to our future partners who we’ll be launching with very soon.

Thank you to our team of developers, who have worked so hard behind the scenes to make our platform work, it’s not a simple thing to create a platform where people can give to each other.

Thank you to our community of Boise, for your generosity and support of Welolo, we don’t believe there’s a city that’s more kind or generous.

Happy Holidays Boise, we hope you’re spending it with the people you love most.

23/12/2022

With Welolo you can pay it forward to specific people (i.e. your homie, your mom, your cousin), or you can pay it forward to groups of people (Military, Education, Fire Department, Healthcare Workers and Law Enforcement).

If you pay it forward to one of these groups, what it means is that when, for example, a veteran walks into one of our partner businesses (currently we’re launched with our first partner , more partners soon to very come), your gift goes into a community pot available to pay for their cup of coffee.

There’s already Welolo money available for each of these groups, and the way you can help us out is to either 1.) share this post 2.) Tag someone in military, education, fire department, healthcare or law enforcement. Don’t think hard about it, we can see you squinting and thinking too hard, just tag the first person that comes to mind and help us spread the word about Welolo.

To redeem a Welolo, anyone in these groups can walk into Alchemist Coffee Roasting Co and tell them that they’re a health-care worker (or the appropriate group, you know what we mean, silly) and their coffee will be paid for, as simple as that. Warm feelings ensue on all sides.

Here’s Dee Morgan, he currently works as a human resource partner at the City of Boise, he is a 20+ year recent retiree of the United States Air Force, he lives in Nampa with his family. He also has a business , where he makes incredible cheesecake. He generously volunteered to be a part of a photoshsoot for us as one of the members of our military group.

Generosity is our superpower and we’re all in this together 👊.

21/12/2022

It’s time for us show you how Welolo works. We exist to make generosity easy (and to increase the amount of generosity going around), so here’s what you’ll do to send a Welolo (scroll through the series of images, to see how you, the actual user, will experience it).

Go to welolo.app
Choose a partner business (currently we’re only launched with , but we’ll be launching with our other partners soon!)
Choose how much you want to give and who you want to give it to (specific individual or group)
Push some buttons (beep, boop, bleep (sounds of pushing buttons)).
Feel that good feeling. (Yes that’s the feeling of generosity, get used to it 🙌).

If you Welolo an individual they’ll receive a text from you with their Welolo, or if you Welolo one of our groups (military (Active Duty and Veteranss), education (teachers, lunchroom workers, environmental services, janitors, bus drivers, crossing guards, ANYONE and EVERYONE in education), fire department, health care workers or law Enforcement), then your Welolo will be added to the group pot for anyone from that group to redeem.

To redeem a Welolo, scan the QR code you get via text, or if you’re one of the members of our groups, just tell your cashier and your coffee will be covered 👍.

We’re still in our first weeks of launch and we want all the feedback we can get! So if you go through this process and run into any problems on the giving or receiving end, please DM us and let us know your experience. We purposefully chose a slow launch to work out all of the quirks before we move out on a larger scale.

Much love Boise, we’ll see you out there.
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