#Non-Profit

[prayingforlove]

I'm a graphic designer and not local to the organization, but I volunteer with a non-profit that sends books to inmates because I want to help encourage literacy, education, and rehabilitation. I do remote work like transcription, image editing, create graphics for their social pages.

So this is just another example that not every volunteer or activist position requires you to be physically there or monetary donations (though those of course are huge). I'd like to encourage people to think of what their interests and skills are and where they can be used to help vulnerable communities. There are so many opportunities out there and every little thing you can do to help society is going to make a difference for someone.

Ways you can volunteer when you have social anxiety

Hi, I know some of you feel motivated to organize and volunteer with the recent everything but as someone with an anxiety disorder I know the struggle. I’ve been volunteering sporadically since I was a teen and not all of it requires face to face to contact with the public. Here’s some ideas to get you started.

Cooking in kitchens and food pantries/volunteering to cook at places that have daily or weekly free or reduced cost meals like food not bombs, soup kitchens, summer or winter food trucks for low income k-12 students, religious community kitchens like at church gatherings or a Sikh langar.

Making clothing or blankets. Domestic violence shelters are often in need of these for both adults and kids. Organizations that work with foster kids are often also in need of clothing and blankets.

Contacting vendors: If you’re bad at talking to people but good at writing emails a lot of groups are in need of supplies.

Unloading trucks at stuff like food pantries and clothing drives. If possible you can request to be put in the back room or work on setup.

Just show up at the protest. Sometimes you can just stand there and be another body in the back of the crowd. That’s what I’ve done at every protest I’ve ever been in. Wear a face mask and a hat if you don’t want to be recognized. You’re sending a message just by being there.

House repair and garden planting. A lot of organizations that do this stuff will train you.

Write letters to prisoners. There’s a lot of organizations that let you do this but they’re usually specific to a local area. When I lived in Texas there was an organization that connected some classmates and I to a group of people in the local men’s prison who wanted to do a book club so we did a long distance book club with them for a few months.

After school tutoring, babysitting, religious or other types of classes for kids, etc. Some folks feel less anxious around kids and there’s plenty of opportunities to volunteer in both secular and religious capacities. You can tutor, babysit, help run classes, stuff like that. There’s also a lot of opportunities to work with foster kids without being a foster parent if that’s something you’re passionate about.

Counting money. Organizations get donations and those donations often come in the form of cash. This is the primary form of volunteer work my grandmother does for her church and some local charities. It’s a good choice if you’re someone who can’t stand for long periods of time and you’re good at basic math.

Donate blood. Yes this counts as volunteer work.

[wdr2-rlbmut]

Back in 1980, legendary actor Vincent Price recorded several 30-second television announcements in a bid by the Albuquerque Museum to gain more visitors and members. In an interview with the Albuquerque Journal at the time, Price said, “I am crazy about New Mexico. If I had lots of money, I would like to have a house like Georgia O'Keeffe's here.” Price served on the Arts and Crafts Board of the Interior Department and had a doctorate from the California College of Arts and Crafts.

Digging through our archives, we uncovered this fabulous promo video promoting the Albuquerque Museum Foundation—a non-profit that raises funds for the Albuquerque Museum. You can learn more about us, and as the King of Horror suggests, support us!

[alwaysbewoke]

A federal judge on Monday threw out a lawsuit by Elon Musk’s X that had targeted a watchdog group for its critical reports about hate speech on the social media platform. In a blistering 52-page order, the judge blasted X’s case as plainly punitive rather than about protecting the platform’s security and legal rights. “Sometimes it is unclear what is driving a litigation,” wrote District Judge Charles Breyer, of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, in the order’s opening lines. “Other times, a complaint is so unabashedly and vociferously about one thing that there can be no mistaking that purpose.” “This case represents the latter circumstance,” Breyer continued. “This case is about punishing the Defendants for their speech.” X’s lawsuit had accused the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) of violating the company’s terms of service when it studied, and then wrote about, hate speech on the platform following Musk’s takeover of Twitter in October 2022. X has blamed CCDH’s reports, which showcase the prevalence of hate speech on the platform, for amplifying brand safety concerns and driving advertisers away from the site. In the suit, X claimed that it had suffered tens of millions of dollars in damages from CCDH’s publications. CCDH is an international non-profit with offices in the UK and US. Because of its potential to destroy the watchdog group, the case has been widely viewed as a bellwether for research and accountability on X as Musk has welcomed back prominent white supremacists and others to the platform who had previously been suspended when the platform was still a publicly-traded company called Twitter.

[kira-ani-mcgrath]

"We are the Essentials" Fundraiser

On August 16th, 2023, the non-profit search group "We are the Essentials" found wife and mother Anu Awasthi alive after she had been missing for six days.

Her husband, Vikas, started a fundraiser for the group. The Awasthi family will match donations up to $20,000 USD.

Please consider donating, especially if you or your loved ones live in or near Florida.

You can learn more about the organization on their website:

[censemaking]

What Does Impact Look Like?

What does it mean to create impact? It's time to look at what it means and how we can tell when we achieve it.

Impact is the ultimate outcome for any social change initiative yet it’s also the most elusive and poorly defined of our evaluation metrics in practice. How do we change this? In this first post in a series, I bring us into the world of understanding impact. Non-profits are in the business of making a positive difference in spaces that are ignored or neglected by other institutions society.…

[cacodaemonia]

Please consider sharing a link to the non-profit I volunteer with or throwing a little cash their way.

[epifund]

The Only Non-Profit to Help 1 in 24 ppl that suffer from this illness. Raising Awareness. Collecting donations so that they can have income coming in, when they cannot work and are seriously down. Noone wants to help them for real. We will and we will... Let's have them have some money and help coming it. Real help when it all looks like the end and let's Pick them up... We can do it & we are here to stay. Noone did it before. If u wanna know more about Epilepsy, help us as volunteers &\or to spread the word or give a donation: U all know how it works: Sharing is caring &/or contact us or both. Stay better. www.epilepsyfund.org

[matmarrash]

My 2023 in Review: Grants, Public Art, and Teaching

With 2024 right around the corner, now’s the perfect time to reflect on 2023 and share a bit more about what I’ve been up to. In terms of making pictures, 2023 is currently in my Top 3 worst years for creating photographic work. This doesn’t mean that everything else I was working on wasn’t photography related, it just wasn’t work for myself. Looking back, this year was all about strengthening my arts connections locally by sharing photography with the community. In no particular order, here’s what I’ve been up to for the past twelve months.

After-school Arts

Since the Fall Semester of 2022, my good friend Tariq Tarey and I have been working closely with a local charter school to develop an after-school photography program. For our first year, we were able to get interchangeable lens mirrorless cameras into the hands of fourteen eager 7th and 8th graders. Each week, we would take an hour to introduce the kids to a different aspect of photography. Throughout the year we managed to guide them out of Auto Mode on their cameras and start “seeing” their photos instead of simply “point and shoot”. By the end of year one students had: photographed a body of work, critiqued and edited their pictures, printed, framed, and entered their photographs into a local art show.

It’s been a long time since I’d worked with middle school aged kids, and to say I was nervous about working with younger students is an understatement. From years of teaching privately via Midwest Photo and One-on-One workshops, teenagers haven’t been my typical clientele. Many of them had no experience with a camera outside of a smartphone, and the idea of a dedicated device for picture taking was completely foreign. To the surprise of Tariq and myself, they picked up the basics at lightning pace. The mechanics took a bit more practice than anticipated, but their grasp of the language of photography was impressive and helped guide their vision. Overall I’m incredibly proud of what our students were able to accomplish in our short time together, and I’m looking forward to 2024 where we’ll be back for a new class of creatives!

Hilltop Cyanotype Day

Each year, the Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC) offers financial support to individual artists and arts organizations in the Columbus, OH area in the form of grants. These can range from one-time stipends for artist’s supplies to sustaining grants for arts nonprofits in the area. I’ve been participating in GCAC Individual Artist grants since 2015 and looking through the 2023 opportunities list, there was a new program that piqued my interest. The Neighborhood Arts Connection (NAC) grants are a way for artists residing in a particular Columbus neighborhood to receive funding to elevate and engage the community. And one of the two neighborhoods on the list for early 2023 was the Hilltop, where I’ve been for the last four years. There were two levels of the NAC grant available, $5k and $10k for a neighborhood based art program, so I decided to swing for the fences. I pitched a one-day public workshop where ANYONE would be able to attend free of charge to make a cyanotype print. To my complete surprise, the grant was approved; this was going to be my biggest undertaking of the year by far!

Even as I talk about it in past tense, $10k is a lot of money to spend on any one thing. I’m incredibly grateful that Columbus has an arts organization that’s able to support artists and their communities with grants like this. All of that being said, $10k for a public art event can be tough when accounting for everything that goes into the day. Breaking it down into three core categories, here’s what the budget looked like on my grant application versus what it actually came out to:

Material Resources - $4360 planned, $3878.81 actual

Includes art supplies, consumable goods, first aid supplies, and miscellaneous goods purchased for the event.

Human Resources - $4400 planned, $4682.50 actual

Includes pay for event host (me), eight assistants, and security all at a fair wage.

Event Planning - $1240 planned, $1693.11 actual

Includes space rental, permits, insurance, and event marketing.

So how far did that $10k go? I’m a little biased here, but I think it was enough to make an impact on my neighborhood. On Sunday October 1st, 2023 at Westgate Park, I along with eight other local artists hosted a hands-on workshop where all attendees were able to make their own cyanotype prints, free of charge. No photography experience? No problem! There were 200+ pieces of pre-coated light sensitive materials on-site, with dozens of different stencils and objects to make a unique photogram.

Throughout the course of the day, we had over 130 members of the public join us in making nearly 200 cyanotype prints on: watercolor paper, t-shirts, tote bags, napkins, and a few giant cotton murals! We had folks of all ages in attendance from age 4 - 72, many of which stayed to make extra prints. There were a few photographers that showed up, but a vast majority were Hilltop and Westgate locals that were interested in making something by hand. Any leftover arts and craft supplies that were used from the day made it into the hands of Hilltop art teachers, and two of the giant “snow angel” murals were donated to Hilltop local establishments. Most importantly, no attendees left the event empty handed, and everyone remained safe while having fun experiencing the joy of photography!

There were plenty of hurdles and a lot of lessons learned during the planning and execution of this event. Once I have that all of my thoughts and feelings compiled into an explainer video, I’ll be sure to append this blog post accordingly. For now, here are a couple of galleries of photographs taken on Cyanotype Day by photographers Shiann Banks (below) and Gracie Becker (above), thank you both SO MUCH for your help!

Research & Residency

Working as a freelance photographer is still not something I’m 100% used to yet, but in this second year of not having a 9-to-5 job I’ve started to look at opportunities that were previously out of reach. In previous years I’d see a handful of amazing location workshops and artist in residence (AiR) programs that I couldn’t participate in due to lack of paid time off days. One of my big goals for 2023 was to change this by applying to upcoming AiR programs and explore new grants. The Hilltop Cyanotype Day was one such opportunity afforded by a generous GCAC grant, but I’m happy to report there are a couple more.

Starting in January in 2024, I’ll be taking part in the Winter Residency program at the Penland School of Craft. Penland is an amazing craft school nestled into the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina. Each year they host over a thousand students in residencies and workshops of various lengths and disciplines. During those few Winter weeks I’ll be in charge of the photo studio and darkroom spaces at Penland in exchange for some much needed time and access to work on my alternative process photography.

Alongside the Winter Residency at Penland, I’m equally excited to announce that I’ve received a generous grant award from the Ohio Arts Council (OAC) to help fund additional materials and research related to alternative process photography. Combined with my upcoming time at Penland, my aim to is come back to Columbus and spend more time making fine prints throughout 2024. With any luck I’ll be attempting several new-to-me alt processes and be reporting back to you all here on the blog and the YouTube channel.

In retrospect, 2023 was another year defined by photography, just not my own. I wasn’t out making pictures with big sheets of film through an “old timey” as much as usual, but I still had a blast. Thanks to everyone that helped make this past year a meaningful one, and an especially big thanks to the Greater Columbus Arts Council and Ohio Arts Council for helping support my continued photographic projects. Have a safe and Happy New Year, and I hope to share more photography with you all very soon!

[pandemichub]

The Project N95 shop will remain OPEN until December 15th, 2023.

Reblog to circulate post on Tumblr

I'm uncertain if there's a way to save this non profit but I'd like to encourage us all to try. We already lost another this past year 'Body Politic' because they did not get the financial supported needed to continue, which included expansion to be able to operate well.

Part of building community and a better future involves investing. And we cannot hope to have resources, infrastructure and responses to meet the progressive derailing and degrading conditions and societies around us without doing so.

It requires time, energy, heart and sometimes yes, money. The more we put into projects like this, local and small companies, sustainability, kindness, deconstructing & decolonization and less of ourselves and resources into people, organizations and projects that do not care about us or are harming us, we actually have a road to the bright possibilities we hope and speak of so beautifully.

[shaveiisrael]

Shavei Israel is a non-profit founded in 2002 by Michael Freund, the former Deputy Communications Director under Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. He is dedicated to reuniting descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel with the State of Israel and the Jewish people. The organization is made up of academics, educators and rabbinical people intent on completing work in accordance with Jewish Law.

[fieriframes]

[The culture here is like no other. Because owner Dan Lance is all about yet, unpacking books is a revelatory activity. I was doing a non-profit raising money for adoptions. -Really? -Yeah, it wasn't going well by myself.]

[true-love-1997]

꧁Big Time Rush: "Show Me" (English & 日本語 Lyrics)꧂

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[Intro: Carlos]

Guys like me Like girls like you And girls like you Like guys like me (you know?)

日本語

僕のような男子は

君のような女子が好き

と君のような女子は

僕のような男子が好き (you know?)

[Verse 1: Kendall]

I blaze the night, in harbor lights You dressin' light, it's fitting right I hear the waves, and see you wave I'm stayin' put, you say, "No way!" The track begins, you pull me in I touch your skin, you trembiling It's in your eyes, your here to win So let the game, the game begin

日本語

夜を照らす 港の明かりで

君は軽い服を着、よく似合っている

波が聞こえてくる、君が手を振っているのが見える

僕はこのままでいたい、「まさか！」と君は言う

トラックが始まり、君は僕を引き込みます

君の肌に触れます、君は震えている

君の瞳でわかる、勝つためにやってきた

さあ、ゲームを始めましょう

[Pre-Chorus: Logan and Carlos]

I-I, I-I Wanna see You-you, You-you Telling me That-that That you got what I need Do, pretty girl, don't speak

日本語

僕が必要なものを手に入れたと

君が言うのを見たい

美人さん、何も言わずに

[Chorus: Kendall]

Baby, show me By the way you hold me Way, that you control me Speed me up or slow me Oh, when I'm lonely Full of "Stormy weather" Can you make it better? I heard what you told me So-oh-oh, show me

日本語

Baby, show me

君が僕を抱きしめるように

指導してくれるように

スピードを上げたり遅くしたり

あぁ、寂しいとき、

荒天だらけのように、

 君は慰めることができますか？

君が僕に言ったことを聞いた

So-oh-oh, show me

[Verse 2 James]

Know what you want, my number for Ain't talked enough, let's talk some more You're kinda cute, don't hit the mute Just aim and shoot or get the boot

日本語

僕の番号が欲しい理由を知っている

話が足りない、もっと話そう

君はかわいい、話止まらないで

��いを定めて撃つか、諦めるか

[Pre-Chorus: Logan and Carlos]

I-I, I-I Wanna see You-you, You-you Telling me That-that That you got what I need Do, pretty girl, don't speak

日本語

僕が必要なものを手に入れたと

君が言うのを見たい

美人さん、何も言わずに

[Chorus: Kendall]

Baby, show me By the way you hold me Way, that you control me Speed me up or slow me Oh, when I'm lonely Full of "Stormy weather" Can you make it better? I heard what you told me So-oh-oh, show me

日本語

Baby, show me

君が僕を抱きしめるように

指導してくれるように

スピードを上げたり遅くしたり

あぁ、寂しいとき、

荒天だらけのように、

 君は慰めることができますか？

君が僕に言ったことを聞いた

So-oh-oh, show me

[Post-Chorus Carlos]

Guys like me Like girls like you (yeah) And girls like you (you!) Like guys like me (me!) Guys like me (ooh) Like girls like you (you!) And girls like you (you!) Like guys like me

日本語

僕のような男子は

君のような女子が好き (yeah)

と君のような女子は

僕のような男子が好き

僕のような男子は (ooh)

君のような女子が好き

と君のような女子は

僕のような男子が好き

[Chorus: Kendall]

Baby, show me By the way you hold me Way, that you control me Speed me up or slow me Oh, when I'm lonely Full of "Stormy weather" Can you make it better? I heard what you told me So-oh-oh, show me

日本語

Baby, show me

君が僕を抱きしめるように

指導してくれるように

スピードを上げたり遅くしたり

あぁ、寂しいとき、

荒天だらけのように、

 君は慰めることができますか？

君が僕に言ったことを聞いた

So-oh-oh, show me

[Post-chorus Carlos]

Guys like me (ooh, oh yeah!) Like girls like you (full of "Stormy weather") And girls like you (oh-oh) Like guys like me

日本語

僕のような男子は (ooh, oh yeah!)

君のような女子が好き(「荒天だらけ」のように)

と君のような女子は(oh-oh)

僕のような男子が好き

[Verse 3]

Oh, when I'm lonely Full of "Stormy weather" Can you make it better? I heard what you told me So-oh-oh, show me

日本語

あぁ、寂しいとき、

荒天だらけのように、

 君は慰めることができますか？

君が僕に言ったことを聞いた

So-oh-oh, show me

[Outro Logan] (English & 日本語)

La, la La, la, la, la La, la La, la, la, la La, la La, la, la, la La-ah, la-aah

Notes: I did the best I can in translating the lyrics from English to Japanese. I hope this was helpful for Japanese fans and/or for BTR fans who are interested in Japanese language! I will leave the sources below. And, thanks for reading! 😊

Sources: ♡♡♡ ♡♡♡

[donnaink]

DonnaInk Publications features 40% off sale for Black Friday

DonnaInk Publications features 40% off sale for Black Friday

All books listed on the DonnaInk Publications website are available featuring Black Friday discounts of 40% each PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. – Nov. 23, 2022 – PRLog — DonnaInk Publications, L.L.C. presents a 40% discount for all titles featured through their website, http://www.donnaink.com for Black Friday. Sale begins 11.21.2022 and ends 12.11.2022. Available titles include: 50 Million Things…

[lalithasampathi]

Hello everyone by Lalitha Sampathi Via Flickr: Hello everyone, My name is Lalitha, Me and our social workers team providing food for abandoned, old age, homeless and poor people who are suffering from hunger and who are sleeping with hunger. Please help to feed the poor people, Visit here: bit.ly/3IOjF0p 🙏

[annuja]

Happy Diwali! May the festival of lights fill your life with joy and prosperity! 🪔🎆🎇✨

From: @pehchaanthestreetschool-blog

[thepicernefamily]

The Picerne Family Foundation

Website: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/picerne-family-foundation

Address: 5000 Birch Street, Suite600, Newport Beach, CA 92660

The Picerne Family Foundation is dedicated to making a positive impact in communities through various philanthropic initiatives. Focused on education, health, and social services, The Picerne Family Foundation supports programs that empower individuals and foster community growth. By partnering with local organizations, The Picerne Family Foundation aims to create lasting change and improve the quality of life for those in need.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KAPFoundation