Hi folks,
Hope you're doing as well as possible in these wild times!
Every year around Thanksgiving, my favorite giving project Blue Heart
<https://www.blueheartaction.org/> publishes a Giving Guide (2020 version
here <https://www.blueheartaction.org/giving-guide-2020>) to recommend
specific places to donate money: important and amazing but less
visible/less funded organizations which focus on long-term movement/power
building for marginalized communities.
This year, we're offering a donation match with the Giving Guide so that
any funds donated through the guide, up to a certain amount, will be
doubled (!!!). This will also help us see how much money the Giving Guide
moves :)
I'm looking for folks willing to contribute to this matching pool in
advance. This would be a pledge to match up to $N of other people's
donations to the specific orgs listed in the Giving Guide. We're hoping
this can be a big round number to inspire everyone to give more.
If you might be interested in making a larger donation in advance—or if you
have friends who might be interested—please reply to me in the next few
days and we can chat about the details.
I realize this is a bigger ask, and I deeply appreciate your consideration.
Excited to share the Giving Guide once it launches!
<3
Stacey
Q: is there a minimum amount asked of a matching donor?
A: not really, every little bit helps! If you're on the fence, please send
me an email! I would appreciate increments of $100 for bookkeeping, and if
it's < $100, perhaps waiting until the Giving Guide is out and giving
directly would be simpler. I'm personally in for $3000.
some bills passed the legislature last week that promise to make a
significant dent in california's housing shortage -- up to as many as
2.4M homes. details here:
https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/yimby-triumph-in-california
(for context, california has ~12M homes total, so these estimates
represent almost 20% of available supply).
the legislators that made it possible includes both the senator and
assemblyperson representing chrysalis -- nancy skinner and buffy wicks.
i am sending them letters of support and thanks.
--igor
