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. This is an open thread.
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.
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. It all adds up. Thank you so much.
Also, tip, rec, comment here and in the individual diaries. Share on social media. That helps spread the word.
Community Needs List
Community Needs List as of 7/4/20. Fundraisers who want a diary to be or stay on the list: PLEASE kosmail requests and donations received to njm5000 by Friday evening to be included on the Saturday 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
** CRITICAL TIME-SENSITIVE NEED: JTG—needs to raise $3,000 $2349 for July living expenses, which includes the $1250 needed by July 31st to cover the 1st installment for this semester’s tuition. Diary is here. Patreon• GoFundMe• Ko-Fi• PayPal (James at JamesThomasGreen.com) [Dixiecollie's Note: jtg now has had dog and cat food donated, so cash is his immediate need to cover his tution and bills.]
SNOOPYDAWG—Diary. $3332 3322 3000 2350 1900 1826 is still needed to repay one of the generous Kossacks who loaned the balance to stop the foreclosure. One lender was repaid first, at the request of the other. :-)
PayPal snoopydawg at earthlink dot net and www.gofundme.com/
You can also purchase snoopydawg’s photos at www.midlifeartistsunlimited.org/
MORE WAYS TO HELP BELOW THE FOLD
More Ways To Help
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.
MUSICAL INTERLUDE
Today's musical selection is Do Something by Matthew West. If not us, then who?
Thanks, as always to our DONORS, Helpers, Needs List team, and Everyone who just stops by to comment, rec and tip. We need you all to make this a success.
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