Ep. 89: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

EQ: How can  financial giving a vital part of our equity & justice work?

Our conversation today focuses on how your annual giving can #belessbasic. As we know better, we need to do better, and that includes our giving.  We first focus on why you should care about where you are giving, and how you might think about where you choose to give your money. Hope and Megan then move into sharing the organizations that they choose to support, ranging from a wide variety of social causes. They end the episode talking about the suggestions that came in from some of our listeners. You can find an extensive list of resources below to the organizations that we discussed in today’s episode.

Tacoma-Local Orgs to Support:

• Channel 253, Snacks for Schools, Tacoma Diaper Drive, Sandwiches for Homeless, LHS Community Resource Center

• Local restaurants--En Rama, Doyles, Love By the Slice, etc.

Some of Hope’s Favs:

• Planned Parenthood - Women’s Health

• Center for Reproductive Rights - Women’s Health

• Border Angels - Immigrant Support and Aid

• CAIR --Council of American Islamic-Relations

• Innocence Project - Provides legal support to overturn wrongful convictions

Megan’s Recommendations:

• Native Women’s Wilderness - Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women - Indigenous Women’s rights

• FairFight - Access to Voting

• Livestrong - Cancer/Reproductive Health

• National Ovarian Cancer Coalition - Cancer Advocacy 

From our Listeners:

• Niles Edge in Seattle--mental health org lead by and for Black people

• Na’ah Illahee Fund--STEM for Native Girls

• Somali Parents Education Board, Somali Family Education Advocacy

• Densho Project--preserving stories of Japanese A incarcerated during WWII

• Southern Poverty Law Center--racial and social justice

• Africatown Community Land Trust, Seattle--investment & land community

• The Trevor Project--LGBTQ Youth

• Gender Cool Project - LGBTQ Youth - Transgender and Non-Binary focus

• My Purple Umbrella - LGBTQ Youth - Transgender and Non-Binary focus

• Rainbow Center - LGBTQ Community

• Tacoma Urban League - assist African Americans and other underserved urban residents in the achievement of social equality and economic independence.

• Immigration Legal Resource Center-- - Legal resources for Immigrants