There's a lot of work to do before November 5, 2024 and we will be leaving it all on the field. So here's another "get out the vote" focused fundraiser - this time the grassroots organization is Vote Forward. Vote Forward began in 2017 as an experiment conducted by Scott Forman in Alabama, where he sent 1,000 letters to encourage voters in the special U.S. Senate election. Encouraged by the success of that test, Scott and a small group of friends and colleagues built the first version of the Vote Forward platform to allow volunteers to take easy and effective action in future elections. Vote Forward letters can boost voter turnout by as much as 3.4 percentage points! That's huge! And in 2024, every single vote is invaluable.
So while we will be fundraising for Vote Forward we will also be writing letters and hope you will, too! There are numerous campaigns that needs volunteers like YOU! And if there is interest we could totally write our letters together at one of our Thursday craft nights. Which sounds lovely.
We also want to encourage folks to sign up for the Makers for Kamala Livestream on September 15, 2024. We are hoping for 10K makers to join the call and we know that we have close to 10K newsletter subscribers so why not RSVP and make history with all sorts of makers (not just for fiber crafts but for everyone that makes something!). The Makers for Kamala campaign is the brainchild of some of our favorite fiber leaders and we love that we can come together to do something.
*Since launching the We Care Wednesday initiative in January 2017 we have donated over $85,215 to a variety of nonprofits and mutual aid funds doing essential work in our community as well as other places. From the Mayor's Disaster Fund to BAGLY to Abortion Access Front and Material Aid and Advocacy. We select organizations that we feel represent not only our commitment to a better, more equitable world but also our desire to "do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."