Welcome to the weekly edition of Helping Humpday
Helping Humpday is dedicated to Kossacks helping one another. HHday resides at the Street Prophets Coffee Hour, the intersection where politics and religion and faith and history and ethical values and art conveniently meet and sometime collide.
Here’s what we do and why we do it: Humpday — because we’re smack dab in the middle of the work week and getting over that hump sure looks sweet. But for some folks in this community, the humps they need to get over are far more daunting than looking forward to the weekend. That is where Helping comes in. Helping Humpday is specifically about generating community support for struggling Kossacks who find themselves facing an imminent financial need like keeping the lights on, avoiding eviction, getting to work, paying medical bills. Our goal is to publicize the Community Needs List and other fundraisers for needy Kossacks as widely across the site as possible. Our motto is simple: many hands make light work.
Caravan of Love
But before we move on to the List — I am feeling a bit nostalgic. Today’s musical interlude is another blast from the past, when we sang about social causes and social responsibility and being a world-wide compassionate community where every woman and every man was our sister and our brother. SO for the few Kossacks who missed the sixties and early seventies, here is Caravan Of Love by Isley Jasper Isley: “Every woman, every man, join the caravan of love, stand up...everybody take a stand...”
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Support Someone on the Community Needs List
Consider A Donation To a Kossack In Need.
The folks on the Community Needs List are struggling. Some need help with a one-time emergency. Others have been have struggled for months. They are working towards financial independence and self-sufficiency, but still need some help. Your small gift can help a family or individual find stability for another month in the face of a crisis. Even $3, or $5, or $10 helps. Thank you so much.
Also, tip, rec, comment here and in the individual diaries. That helps spread the word.
Full Community Needs List
Community Needs List as of 10/18/19 with updates where I have the. Fundraisers who want a diary to be or stay on the list: PLEASE kosmail requests and donations received to njm5000 by Thursday evening to be included on the Friday morning updated list.
Living on the financial edge—need help? Check out the Helping Directories before your next emergency.
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Housing and Transportation Fundraisers
KM Wehrstein—Still needs $1900 1740 1625 1575 1510 700 670 655 towards paying off the high interest short term loan for her new/used vehicle. Wheels fund: eyes on the prize.and Carless in the country, asking for help PayPal: please choose “send money” rather than “pay” if you can — by clicking here. Please note ‘wheels fund’. New diary in the works.
SNOOPYDAWG—needs $9,500 6380 5250 4190 3980 3945 3927 3812 3572. Two kossacks offered short-term loans to stop the foreclosure and future funds raised will repay them. Diary is here. Update is here. PayPal snoopydawg@earthlink.net and www.gofundme.com/…
You can also purchase snoopydawg’s photos at
www.midlifeartistsunlimited.org/…
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Medical and Veterinary Fundraisers
Pam LaPier needs some help with medical expenses for her elderly cat: and help with Nov rent as her new job is yet to start. Potential treatment costs of $3000 1195 1185 985 880 Smokey’s Lumps; there is a GoFundMe. PayPal is pamelalapier at gmail dot com.
MICHELEWIN—needs help with medical bills. $3900 2625 2560± from the Feb. fundraiser. Diary: 2/2 Caregiver Burnout: Help Needed, diary 5/9: www.dailykos.com/…, 8/28 www.dailykos.com/… UPDATE: michelewln has a new diary up today updating her medical bill needs Dear Medical People, I'm Not Made of Money. With help she paid off the Feb bills, but now owes $4,365 with two additional surgeries pending. She is feeling overwhelmed by these mounting debts. PayPal is michelewilson327 at gmail dot com
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WOOTs—Orlaine’s and jtg’s goals were met!
Two Additional Time-Sensitive Needs From Around DKOS
1) jan4insight is struggling to meet this month's mortgage and needs about $685 $540 $280 plus $145 $50 for vet meds for her senior kitty LuvLee (thank you to all who have donated and made purchases). If anyone can help, send via Paypal to burchjan@gmail.com or Ko-fi contribution, or place an order for art, cards, jewelry or crocheted goods at her ZIbbet Shop. As jan says: Your help with this necessity is doubly appreciated, because keeping LuvLee alive & healthy is a big part of keeping me going.
2) MATCHING FUND CHALLENGE: Hellebor has a diary Freelance Escapologist Desperately Needs Help: Kim now needs surgery for her brain tumor, and it’s not covered by the trial grant that covers her other cancer. She has also started radiation treatments. They need $5800 3540 $3409. There is a GoFundMe, or donate via PayPal address: churlygurl at gmail dot com. There is a new anonymous $1000 match through midnight (Eastern time) TOMORROW, 24 October 2019.
MORE WAYS TO HELP BELOW THE FOLD
More Ways To Help
The NEW full Kos Katalogue is here
SOCIAL MEDIA — Help Spread the Word
Help us get the word out! If helping financially isn’t the right option for you — or you want to do more — then be the link between need and fulfillment. If you are active on Social Media, go to the linked fund-raising pages on the Needs List and use the social media icons on the page to share it throughout your contacts on Facebook, Twitter, whatever platform you use. If you are active on DKOS, and it is appropriate for your members, republish this diary to your groups and tip, comment, rec so it stays on the sidebar as long as possible.
What’s the philosophy behind the Community Needs List? I will let bfitzinAR, the original founder of Helping Humpday, speak for us:
Kossacks taking care of our own — helping by sharing/donating money or needed items, helping by sharing both donation site links and artisan/vendor site links and purchasing gifts for self or others via those links, helping by sharing knowledge and informational links, or helping by just sharing a hug or a cup of coffee as appropriate — is what community is all about.
We are community — clan, tribe, company, village, culture, and state. Community survives beyond the life of any single member and thrives by supporting and strengthening the life of each individual member — by helping each other, by sharing — all together.
Until such time as we get the government that we want and deserve, when there will be no need for fundraisers, there will always be some Kossacks who need the help and compassion of this kind, friendly, and generous community.
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