this month, I did my annual giving to algalita for their long beach gives campaign. i've been wanting to help out more but, honestly, i've been too lazy to volunteer. plus, i don't have that many saturday mornings open either. but last month they put a call out for two types of volunteers: 1. for dsi kits and 2. to help proof their wayfinder society website. i wanted to do both, but the dsi kits were mostly being assembled during normal work hours so that was out for me. but i did put in a good number of hours testing their website, so i feel pretty good about that.
my time at algalita wasn't all great all the time, especially the last year + but i do still really value my time there and still feel very lucky to have worked there with so many passionate people. it was a life changer for me in many ways.
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gave another $26.62 ($25 plus the credit card transaction fee) this month to the moore institute for plastic pollution research, which is algalita's sister org. moore institute focuses on research, and algalita on education.
algalita blew thru their $5k goal (with $8,746 raised as of 9/22 at 9:30am), but moore institute is really struggling with only $396 raised of their $2000 goal. :( that $396 includes my donation, btw. tho i wish i had paid better attention when donating and i would've chipped in an extra $5 to get them over the $400 mark.
