2022 donation list

started off strong this year with "friends," then abortion funds, then, as that issue faded from the news headlines, I shifted focus to other causes.

january - eddy
february - rachel's gofundme
march - national network of abortion funds
april - Women On Waves
may - Just the Pill
june - National Abortion Federation
july - Indigenous Women Rising
august - coworker's gofundme for her dog
september - algalita thru long beach gives
october - vox media
november - ywca south miami thru angel
december - Clean the World

2021 donation list

2020 donation list

i didn't do operation santa as i was hoping to this year, but j and i did donate about $50 worth of toys the 2nd annual holiday fiesta toy drive, which is pretty much the same thing.

priority orgs for next year (lol maybe, who am i kidding?) NPR, PBS, Vice, solarbuddy.org, RIP medical debt, Food Finders, Harvest Partners, Food Forward, Seed Savers, safe toddles, Anti Recidivism Coalition (i found out about them thru their ride home program).

december 2022 donation

for my last monthly donation of 2022, i donated to clean the world. i forget how i heard about them, but it must have been originally thru the soap donation program. 

"Clean the World was founded in 2009 to address global health issues by using discarded hygiene supplies from the hospitality industry. Aiming to reduce the number of hygiene-related deaths, it began recycling soap into new bars to distribute to communities in need.

"In 2015, Clean the World joined forces with the Global Soap Project, resulting in a consolidated nonprofit mission under the banner of Clean the World Foundation.  The consolidation allowed us to go beyond just hygiene to include programs addressing sustainable access to water, sanitation, and feminine hygiene as well"

AND apparently you can volunteer there! next time i can convince my friends to volunteer with me in vegas, i'm totally doing it!!

toy drive!

j and i participated in the city's holiday fiesta toy drive this year. j normally does a toy drive and this was my first time. it was fun! we went to target, which was having a pretty great sale, actually, and got all this for only $50. i bought the ball, obviously. less plastic and more gender neutral. altho, honestly, i think toy companies are making a little more effort these days to market to less gender specific demographics. tell you who doesn't care about that tho: target. within the toy section there is a very sharp deliniation between girls toys and boy toys. tho, i guess, really, the toy manufacturers do that also? tho, notice the toy cars do not have a phot of boy on there. i got the ball in the sports section, lol. i wanted something that would get kids outside and exercising more. j picked things he would have wanted to get, lol. 

i definitely want to do this again next year :)

october 2022 donation

donated belatedly to vox media for october! they make pretty good videos on youtube. i tried donating to vice media also, but couldn't find a donation link. i mean, i get it, they're not a non-profit, but meh. sometimes you want to financially support things but you don't want physical stuff in return.