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.
Hi folks,
Hope you're doing well! Wanted to share an easy & potentially highly
impactful climate action opportunity for San Francisco for this week.
This week SF is voting on a budget, and
*we have a chance to get $11 million for a San Francisco Climate Action
Plan.*
More context
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/11hOfZ4HYsuz-Vs4zs-3fB3ar5OrOCGIz/view> &
details/action options below via my friend Rachel.
1. *Sign* this petition
<https://actionnetwork.org/letters/fund-the-climate-action-plan-including-th…>
2. *Call your city supervisor* & ask for their support: talking
points/sample script in the petition
<https://actionnetwork.org/letters/fund-the-climate-action-plan-including-th…>
(interactive
tool to find your district <https://sfplanninggis.org/sffind/>)
3. [superhero fancy option] *Record a < 1 min video *to be played at the
meeting by *Wed June 22. *Instructions at the end of the email.
If you do any of these things/share this email, would love to hear about
it—all the ripples are so inspiring!
<3S
P.S. I know *this list has been a bit quiet & originally more focused on
giving than on climate*. If you have thoughts on better
organization/coordination (e.g. wanna join a climate-specific action/event
email list? wanna post on more topics/invite more friends to this existing
list? want another virtual/in person meetup on giving/activism/etc
topics?), I'm all ears!
*More details/context from Rachel:*
Basically, it's *11 million* that is needed to fund the beginning of the
city's Climate Action Plan. *It got left out* of the general budget, so we
have to fight for it to be added back in before the budget is finalized,
otherwise we just have a city-declared climate emergency and....no plan or
$$ to deal with it! *This is a super great leverage pt! *
If we can get across that it's important, this will *help fund commercial
building climate retrofits, environmental justice grants, and vehicle
electrification*. The letter also advocates for *cleanup around the
Hunter's Point Shipyard*.
If you want to take it one step further than that, you can *submit a video
for public commentary. *This will probably have an outsized impact! It
needs to be a minute or less and submitted by *Wednesday. *
*Video submission instructions: *
the city put up a special page for comment day at
https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/2022_Budget_Public_Comment_Day.pdf
One interesting bit says they allow videos but note the deadline.
Videos/Documents to be shown during an individual’s comment time must be
submitted 48 hours in advance (*no later than Wednesday, June 22, 2022*),
in order to be tested and vetted beforehand. The A/V system in the Chamber
does not work with the hybrid system; any documents brought on the day of
will not be displayed. Email Videos/Documents to: bos.legislation(a)sfgov.org
with the name of the individual who will be requesting it to be displayed
when it is their turn in line. Videos should be no longer than one (1)
minute and will be played in-lieu of the Remote Callers verbal comments.
