If you’d like to honor Dolly Parton’s life, we believe your best choice is to donate to the local school’s band uniform fund, or a local literacy program. We suspect Dolly has provided for her charities. If it’s important to you to donate to a Dolly charity, her family asks you to consider the Imagination Library, a project dear to her.
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Stand in Pride connects queer folks lacking family support with surrogate family. From someone to walk the brides down the aisle, to a ride home from surgery, you could be the chosen family a queer person is looking for. Learn more at https://www.standinpride.org/
Splurge on a convenience that will free up time or energy for resistance work. If you get a cooking convenience, could you share meals with a neighbor? If you get the car cleaned, would you carpool or offer rides? Would an out of work neighbor want to help you out with some (paid!) overdue chores?
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Do you run a mutual-aid or community-building space? Set up a snack stop. Free fruit for kids, or “take one, leave one” for staff and visitors. Make it feel entirely normal to grab a granola bar “because it’s convenient”. It might be the only thing someone eats that day.
As detention surges again, phone funds will get tapped out. Every phone call costs money, but connection to home can be life-saving. Donate to a local immigration support group for phone calls, legal aid, and more.
The National Association of Black Storytellers “promotes and perpetuates the art of Black storytelling—an art form which embodies the history, heritage, and culture of African Americans.” Donate to support NABS’s annual conference and free storytelling for qualifying institutions: nabsgriots.org
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