Hi, Chrysalis Givers!
As we near the election, we at the Chrysalis Community Fund https://chrysalis.community/blm are making a special push to match donations toward the Black Lives Matter movement for racial justice! We’re doing two things:
1. We’ll continue matching the same organizations as before, but will add two orgs focused on effective voter engagement: the *Environmental Voter Project https://www.environmentalvoter.org/donate* and *Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Bay Area https://www.surjbayarea.org/donate.html*. Members of our household have volunteered with both organizations (currently on specific Congress races). While we remain enthusiastic about local organizations, it’s undeniable that this fall’s Congressional and Presidential elections are of immense importance for clearing the path for more targeted racial justice work, and we want to point some dollars in that direction.
2. We will be setting a *deadline of September 12th* for donations to be matched, in order to get funds to these orgs a.s.a.p. and tie up the logistical ends well before November. So far we have matched $6,118 (a total of $12,276), so we're aiming for *$4,000 more dollars* in the next two weeks or so. *Please disperse this message to as many networks as you see fit.*
Let us know if you have questions or concerns, and thank you again for your support!
<3 Chrysalis Activism
*"An antiracist America can only be guaranteed if principled antiracists are in power, and then antiracist policies become the law of the land, and then antiracist ideas become the common sense of the people, and then the antiracist common sense of the people holds those antiracist leaders and policies accountable. And that day is sure to come."* --Ibram X. Kendi, *Stamped From the Beginning* Chrysalis Community Fund + Black Lives Matter https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hgm7HEhzsKm-BRAUe8H9Han_8BqDonCY5x6wzbl9zAg/edit?usp=drive_web