In what is now an annual tradition my partner and I are spending part of our new years making charitable donation goals for the upcoming year.
Check out last years here: https://surrealvolunteering.blogspot.com/2017/12/day-6-7daysofsocialmediavulnerabilitych.html
The first year we focused on water systems. The second on expression and speech. This year we are going a bit more local with a focus on things that have impacts in the Houston area.
Houston Magazine ran a great article about local non-profits that are making a positive impact in our community. Check it out here: https://www.houstoniamag.com/articles/2018/7/20/nonprofits-houston
With this to start us off, we have 4 that we will give to, 3 times each over the year.
The 2019 charities of our choice are:
Houston Public Media: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/ - This has some carry over as in 2018 when we donated to NPR.
Houston Justice: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/
Clinic Access Support Network: https://clinicaccess.org/index.html
ACLU Texas: https://www.aclutx.org/
As in years past, we will provide in-kind gifts to the Red Cross & an annual donation to our local United Way. Partway into 2018 we began carrying "homeless kits" in our car and have been passing out bags with small support items to those we pass begging at stoplights. These bags have items like water bottles, kleenex, and cough drops. We plan to continue this direct style of donation into 2019.
The value of supporting systems that make our world a better place is priceless, but from over 20 years in the nonprofit sector, I know that monetary donations are required for these systems to function and our world to be better.
My wish for 2019 is that the world is a better place, one donation, one hour, one person at a time.
Check out last years here: https://surrealvolunteering.blogspot.com/2017/12/day-6-7daysofsocialmediavulnerabilitych.html
The first year we focused on water systems. The second on expression and speech. This year we are going a bit more local with a focus on things that have impacts in the Houston area.
Houston Magazine ran a great article about local non-profits that are making a positive impact in our community. Check it out here: https://www.houstoniamag.com/articles/2018/7/20/nonprofits-houston
With this to start us off, we have 4 that we will give to, 3 times each over the year.
The 2019 charities of our choice are:
Houston Public Media: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/ - This has some carry over as in 2018 when we donated to NPR.
Houston Justice: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/
Clinic Access Support Network: https://clinicaccess.org/index.html
ACLU Texas: https://www.aclutx.org/
As in years past, we will provide in-kind gifts to the Red Cross & an annual donation to our local United Way. Partway into 2018 we began carrying "homeless kits" in our car and have been passing out bags with small support items to those we pass begging at stoplights. These bags have items like water bottles, kleenex, and cough drops. We plan to continue this direct style of donation into 2019.
The value of supporting systems that make our world a better place is priceless, but from over 20 years in the nonprofit sector, I know that monetary donations are required for these systems to function and our world to be better.
My wish for 2019 is that the world is a better place, one donation, one hour, one person at a time.
