December 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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visioning workshop Dec 8 or 10: "life blueprint" for activism
by Stacey Svetlichnaya 04 Dec '21

04 Dec '21

Hi folks, Hope you're all doing well! I just signed up for this workshop offered by my friend Jess and thought it might be interesting and relevant to some of you: *Rooted: A vision workshop to clarify what's most important for your life & activism in 2022* https://www.radicalsupport.org/rooted Sounds like we'll be creating a personalized plan for sustainable & impactful & satisfying activism in the next year, which is something I would love support in doing. Would also love to discuss any overlapping interests/opportunities for collaboration that might come out of this visioning :) It's a pay-what-you-can 2 hour zoom webinar, with two available time slots on Dec 8 and Dec 10 (I am doing Fri Dec 10 at 9am) <3S

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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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