Give To The Max in 2023

[mellowtigger]

Continuing 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:

Clare Housing, Rainbow Health, Urban Roots, YouthLink, Minnesota Zoo, Science Museum of Minnesota, archive.org, wikipedia, Snopes, LibreOffice, VLC, Linux Mint

Please consider getting involved (donating time, money, or other resources) to help in your area of the world.