The Story Behind the Name
A Name That Carries Weight
Miranda Faith Salley lived for three years, four months, and twenty-seven days. She was born on January 16, 1995. She was killed on January 12, 1999 — four days before her fourth birthday — by her father. In the time she had, she was a kid who loved baseball and animals, who ran toward school like it was a gift, who followed her mom Kris from room to room like a shadow that didn't want to miss anything. She was three years old. That was enough time for everyone who knew her to understand they'd never forget her.
Domestic violence kills. When it doesn't kill, it isolates — stripping away money, safety, confidence, and options. Education is the thing that rebuilds all of them. Kris Barney survived the same violence that took Miranda, and built the Miranda Faith Memorial Foundation to fight back — funding scholarships for survivors, putting them through school, giving them a path forward. Miranda the platform exists to multiply that work. Every foundation on this platform makes it easier for the next one. Every donation processed, every donor relationship managed, every scholarship administered builds the infrastructure that lets organizations like MFMF spend less time wrestling software and more time changing lives.
For years, MFMF ran the way most small foundations do: spreadsheets for donors, a Wix site for donations, Mailchimp for emails, Stripe for payments, QuickBooks for records. Five tools. None of them talking to each other. The enterprise platforms (Salesforce, Blackbaud) cost more than the foundation raised in a year. The simple tools (Donorbox, GoFundMe) only solved one piece.
Miranda was built to close that gap. One platform that does what five used to — donors, donations, communications, scholarships, reporting — at a price a small foundation can actually afford. Because the organizations doing the hardest work shouldn't have to fight their own tools to do it.
Miranda Faith Salley
January 16, 1995 — January 12, 1999
Her memory is the reason this exists.