Hello dear friend,
Thank you for asking me where to give!
Strategically, here are my best suggestions:
Yes, for one, look in your local community to support any POC-led, BRIDGE size type organizations that you can support. These are often most impactful and least resourced, especially in predominantly white areas.
ACLU - Children are still at the borders.
We Are Enough and The 22 Fund, both founded by Tracey Gray (Tracey is a master mind! Literally a rocket scientist!)
Please also donate to BRIDGE! We are even now feeding vulnerable folks at high levels and supporting advocacy all around. Watch this (unsolicited). Please also share BRIDGE’s New Pathways Talks intended to seed an equitable and resilient future based on healing, justice, and transformation. These free talks with local and national leaders support new forms of leadership and organizing during and post COVID-19, and we wanted to make sure they were accessible to all. If you appreciate them, please become a BRIDGE member.
Locally, here in the Berkshires:
ROPE (Rites of Passage and Empowerment Program). Give through the Women's Fund of Western Mass.
NAACP Berkshires Membership
Three organizations where I am proud to be a Board member: UU Mass Action, Women’s Fund of Western Mass., and Shakespeare & Company.
Two of BRIDGE’s partners in the work, The Schumacher Center for New Economics and WAM Theatre.
And/or please give to one of these organizations (from Black Lives Matter’s longer list):
Communities United Against Police Brutality
American Civil Liberties Union
Please let me know how it turns out. Sending you healing vibes and LOVE!!!
Gwendolyn