Give To The Max in 2021
2021-Nov-13, Saturday 02:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerSeveral years ago, I learned about the importance of virtue signaling in promoting cultural change. I think of it as the valuable counterpoint to dog whistling, which subtly promotes something that needs to remain hidden. If you ride your bicycle to a restaurant, don't take off your helmet until after you've walked past other diners to reach your own seat. Put the idea into people's heads that the desired behavior is possible, even if it's far back in the recesses of their subconscious peripheral awareness. At least it's there, and it's a practice that is returning (free archive copy).
So, in planning for the upcoming Give To The Max day in Minnesota which brings virtue signaling to the statewide level, I'm arranging my thoughts now for groups that I'll support. 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 time, though, I have different categorizations:
I'll have to resubscribe to the news organizations soon, so I can keep getting either a newspaper at my front door (Insight News) or access to paywalled news stories (Washington Post). 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:
Does anyone know if there's an equivalent to The New Yorker for life here in Minnesota? Beyond the fictional Prairie Home Companion, I mean.
So, in planning for the upcoming Give To The Max day in Minnesota which brings virtue signaling to the statewide level, I'm arranging my thoughts now for groups that I'll support. 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 time, though, I have different categorizations:
| 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 |
| Unicorn Riot | They show on-the-ground interviews with locals |
| Pillsbury United Communities | They fund local groups, including My North News |
| 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 |
| Sources of truth in a culture of lies and misdirections | |
| 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 the news organizations soon, so I can keep getting either a newspaper at my front door (Insight News) or access to paywalled news stories (Washington Post). 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:
Animal Humane Society, Clare Housing, Rainbow Health, Urban Roots, Tech Dump, Minnesota Public Radio, Minnesota Zoo, Jordan Area Community Council, Science Museum of Minnesota,
archive.org, wikipedia, Snopes, LibreOffice, VLC, Linux Mint
archive.org, wikipedia, Snopes, LibreOffice, VLC, Linux Mint
Does anyone know if there's an equivalent to The New Yorker for life here in Minnesota? Beyond the fictional Prairie Home Companion, I mean.