Donation receipts!
Added 2024-12-27 00:18:15 +0000 UTCI come bearing donation receipts. For (I believe) the fourth year in a row, we've donated December's Patreon earnings to various charities than support a wide variety of causes.
This month's earnings were $2500 split five ways, so $500 to each of the following charities
Doctors Without Borders - Humanitarian medical care in areas affected by conflict & disease
All For Lunch - Paying off school lunch debt. Based in Atlanta. Can you believe this charity has to exist?
The Davies Shelters - I worked here when Foolish Baseball was getting started! They have two homeless shelters -- one for men, and one for women & children.
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum - You're probably familiar, but located in Kansas City and presided over by Bob Kendrick.
GiveWell Top Charities Fund - Distributes donations based on cost-effectiveness AKA bang for your buck.
Although I'm the one organizing and facilitating the donations, this was of course done with the money you give me monthly, so both I and the charitable organizations thank you for the support.
Comments
Well put. Tough to look at a future with some/all of the HUD funding going away for the voucher programs. Our group is mixed adults and our demographic is increasingly elderly as the years go on due to rent outpacing the fixed income for quite some time. Very cool to hear your experience. Thanks, Bailey
Hank Will
2024-12-27 02:59:17 +0000 UTCI was only there 6 months. I had a lot of responsibilities though. I was the “weekend manager,” so I was the only employee on site for the weekends for the 16 men staying there. That meant serving breakfast & dinner, managing medications, letting people in and out all through the night (a lot of them worked the late shift). Homelessness is just a brutal cycle. It’s beatable if you can hold down a job for a while or use the shelter system to save money on a fixed income (like disability). But any mistake or misfortune throws you off that progress. You have to throw a perfect game for a while, basically. The ones I felt most for were the younger ones. I remember one my age that had gone from foster care to prison to the shelter. Institutionalized his whole life. Hard to feel like he even got a fair crack at making an honest living. Another my age actually had a lot going for him — good family, smart and did well in school, etc. — but had ended up there due to drug addiction and erratic behavior stemming from (what is now clearly) undiagnosed schizophrenia.
Foolish Baseball
2024-12-27 02:52:16 +0000 UTCI didn’t know you used to work for a shelter! I do that in Oregon. How was your experience with that?
Hank Will
2024-12-27 00:47:35 +0000 UTC
