November 2021 - chrysalis.giving

Thanksgiving donation match through Blue Heart?
by Stacey Svetlichnaya 04 Nov '22

04 Nov '22

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.

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Local orgs resettling Afghan refugees
by Christopher Lin 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Hi friends, if you are interested in giving money or time to help Afghan refugees resettle in the Bay Area, I wanted to point to a couple orgs doing this work: Jewish Family & Community Services East Bay https://jfcs-eastbay.org/urgent-afghan-evacuation/ "Some planeloads of refugees have arrived in Fort Lee, Virginia, and this month, JFCS East Bay has already welcomed 40 people to begin their new lives in the East Bay. We are currently waiting for 23 people more people to arrive from Fort Lee, and have accepted the cases of another 33 who are still in Afghanistan. The number and pace of resettlement is like nothing we’ve seen in recent years." They also have volunteer opportunities (e.g. airport pickups, register kids for school). International Rescue Committee Northern California https://help.rescue.org/donate/Softlandingfund "The IRC Northern California is raising $150,000 toward an Afghan Soft Landing Fund. 100% of your donation will be disbursed to cover emergency temporary housing as well as rental & utility assistance to support evacuee families stabilizing." In solidarity, Topher

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[berkeleyclimate@googlegroups.com: Petition to Save CA Solar]
by Igor Serebryany 04 Nov '21

04 Nov '21

Hi folks, I signed the petition here: https://www.savecaliforniasolar.org/sign-petition The goal is to get the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to adopt rules that continue making rooftop solar cost-effective to install. PG&E and other investor-owned utilities (IOUs) are trying to kill rooftop solar, by passing pricing rules that actually make it MORE expensive to have solar panels on your roof than not having them. I'm not totally sure how effective petitions are, so I've also called Newsom's office and tried to contact the CPUC directly to voice my support for rooftop solar. I will forward more action opportunities as I see them! <3, --igor ----- Forwarded message from "'Milliken, Rebecca' via berkeleyclimate" <berkeleyclimate(a)googlegroups.com> ----- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 19:03:32 +0000 From: "'Milliken, Rebecca' via berkeleyclimate" <berkeleyclimate(a)googlegroups.com> To: "berkeleyclimate(a)googlegroups.com" <berkeleyclimate(a)googlegroups.com> Subject: Petition to Save CA Solar X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,DKIMWL_WL_MED, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HTML_MESSAGE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL,SPF_HELO_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Posting on behalf of Reuben B. Ly – please send questions or replies to [1] reuben.b.ly(a)gmail.com A quiet attack is underway to kill rooftop solar this December. This is not an ad or a joke. The CA utility companies have created a 303 page proposal that would siphon the economic value of rooftop solar away from owners. The jaw-dropping proposal includes: ● 80% reduction in “net metering” payments (the amount utilities pay panel-owners for their excess energy) ● $65 - $90 / monthly "solar connection fee" – rain or shine! ● The result: Rooftop solar panel owners could actually be charged more on their electric bill than someone without panels! Crazy, right? Action:[2] sign this petition to Save California Solar So, what would happen if your neighbors stopped buying rooftop solar panels? ● loss of up to 70,000 local jobs ● loss of the greatest future source of clean energy in the state! A ruling is set for Dec 10^th with the CPUC. Your voice matters. Action 1:[3] sign this petition Action 2: forward this to at least ONE MORE person that you know in CA Please sign the petition now. Thank you. Reuben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "berkeleyclimate" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [4]berkeleyclimate+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit [5]https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ berkeleyclimate/ BY3PR09MB8834D8FAADBC659649BBB4FCA08D9%40BY3PR09MB8834.namprd09.prod.outloo… . References: [1] mailto:reuben.b.ly@gmail.com [2] https://bit.ly/3by7yoO [3] https://bit.ly/3by7yoO [4] mailto:berkeleyclimate+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com [5] https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/berkeleyclimate/BY3PR09MB8834D8FAADBC6596… ----- End forwarded message -----

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