The annual holiday spending cycle fuels business in America as families gather and business shuts down. Instead of dreading it, leverage it!
We collect tips from how to choose a boycott, to how to navigate family gatherings with authenticity. Along the way leverage your gift-buying to support small and local businesses and charities. You might even find ideas to loop your MAGA relatives into resistance!
Restaurants are one of the best places for individuals — especially minorities — to start a business in America. Shift your prepared food budget from national brands to local options, and actively promote your favorite places.
Reward Restaurants Find Out How »
Will you see family you struggle with, this long weekend? Wondering how so spend the day with relatives you don’t see eye-to-eye with, without feeling grimy tomorrow? Click through for tips gleaned from the queer Coming Out movement.
Create relationships in your neighborhood. Do it formally through a neighborhood project, or reach out personally. Wave, borrow a cup of sugar and take back cookies, or invite someone to dinner. Start slow and build.
Todays economic action: don’t buy SPCX stock, and if you have investments in index funds, shift to S&P 500 if you’re able. They didn’t change the rules to make Musk a trillionaire and shift the risk to retirement accounts.
Economic Action Find Out How »
Food banks can stretch your dollar further by buying what they really need at wholesale. If the holiday season feels busy don’t grab a few sale cans to throw in a box — donate that money to the food bank directly. If you’re able, make it recurring.
Food Banks need Cash Find Out How »
Did Juneteenth sneak up on you? Spend some time today putting important cultural dates on your calendar and learning appropriate ways to recognize them through allyship, learning or when appropriate, celebration! One way to start: look for summer festivals tied to minority communities in your area. There will be groups tabling who are thrilled to talk about their culture!
Cultural Calendaring Find Out How »
