Give To The Max in 2023
2023-Nov-16, Thursday 08:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerContinuing the annual tradition of virtue signaling spectacle, today is Minnesota's famous Give To The Max day for charitable fundraising statewide.
My own money is coming in slower than I'd like, but at least I can increase my donations this year compared to last year. Over the course of decades, I have generally grouped my donations into one of 3 broad categories: help people now (immediate services), help people in the future (education, sociopolitical change), and help the non-humans in the broader web of our environment. This year, however, I'm continuing my more localized version instead. I'm sending $1,000 to these charities, in either $50 or $100 donations:
See the table of groups I'm supporting in 2023...
| Help within my small portion of the warzone | |
| Youth Farm MN | I've mentioned them before |
| Good in the Hood | I've mentioned them before too |
| Pillsbury United Communities | They fund local groups, including My North News |
| Jordan Area Community Council | my local neighborhood of north Minneapolis |
| Help the nearby people and their environment | |
| Autism Society of MN | help autistics in MN |
| OutFront MN | help queer folk in MN |
| Quatrefoil Library | preserve queer history in a library |
| Migizi | help native people in MN |
| Minnesota Renewable Energy Society | encourage MN to migrate to renewable energy |
| Metro Blooms | encourage MN to migrate from grass yards to native prairie |
| MN350 | encourage MN to reduce CO2 to 350ppm |
| Animal Humane Society | help domesticated animals when their former owners cannot |
| Repowered | provides training, employment, and tech to local people, formerly known as Tech Dump |
| Sources of truth in a culture of lies and misdirections | |
| Unicorn Riot | They show on-the-ground interviews with locals |
| Minnesota Public Radio | local non-commercialized news |
| My North News.org | Jordan neighborhood and Minneapolis city news |
| Insight News.com | Jordan neighborhood and Minneapolis city news |
| Minnesota Post | MN news |
| Washington Post | USA and world news |
I'll have to resubscribe to those non-hyperlinked news organizations mentioned above. There are also other donation sites that I've used in the past, such as this one to help the local homeless acquire land of their own for safe encampments. Other services I approve, but I don't have the money to throw at all of them this year:
Please consider getting involved (donating time, money, or other resources) to help in your area of the world.