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CHARITIES/NON-PROFITS
Never confuse a love warrior and a freedom fighter with a polished professional; because most polished professionals fetishize smartness and end up well adjusted to injustice and well adapted to indifference.-Dr.Cornell West
ANIMAL RIGHTS/ANIMAL SHELTERS
"Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel used to say with such tremendous insight,"Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself.".Doesn't matter how smart you no matter how rich you are if you are not willing to engage in parrhesia frank speech blunt speech",
-Dr. Cornell West
APPRECIATION DAYS: DOING SOMETHING SMALL FOR OUR UNSUNG HEROES
Wouldn't it be cool if on random days we show gratitude to those around us? Let's celebrate just as an example, our garbage men/custodians and our truck drivers, our teachers and nurses, our security guards and construction workers who work hard everyday to keep society running.
CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND ANGER MANAGEMENT
Nobody is going to have it together all the time. These are groups working on how to solve these issues and keep these issues managed and under control.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Doing something positive once in a while
DRUGS/SUBSTANCE ABUSE
Helping people move onto bigger and better things.
EMERGENCY RELIEF GRANTS
Have you or a loved one had a medical, legal or financial emergency? We've all been their sadly but you are not alone.Your community wants to help. Lets see if theirs groups willing and able to give not a hand out but a hand up.
FREE/LOW COST LEGAL AIDE
"And allowing through a formation of attention and a cultivation of a critical self and the maturation of a loving soul, to bear witness.To be a truth teller, and he echoed line 24A of Plato's Apology; where Socrates says what?," Parrhesia Parrhesia was the cause of my unpopularity. What is parrhesia Socrates?".Frank speech, plain speech, fearless speech, un-in-tim-ida-ted speech. Yes it will get you in trouble"-Dr.Cornell West on Malcom X
FOOD INSTABILITY
"The FBI was most disturbed by The Panthers survival programs providing community service.The popular free breakfast program, in which The Party provided free hot breakfasts to children in Black communities throughout the United States, was as already noted, a a particular thorn in the side of J.Edgar Hoover.Finding little to criticize about the program objectively, the bureau decided to destroy it"- Huey P. Newton
HELPING GET THE HOMELESS BACK ON THEIR FEET
"Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise"- Maya Angelou
MASS INCARCERATION,RECEDIVISM AND CRIME PREVENTION
Embracing those brothers and sisters of ours who have been incarcerated. Vilifying or throwing away our own people just because they have criminal records is wrong.
SCHOLARSHIPS
Helping parents and students of all ages go back to school and stay in school.
STREET CLEANING AND COMMUNITY BEUTIFCATION
Not just taking out the trash but subconciously taking pride in our neighborhoods, who we are, and where we come from.
YOUTH PROGRAMS
Giving kids in low income communities positive and heathy things to do.