Welcome to the weekly edition of Helping Humpday
Helping Humpday is dedicated to Kossacks helping one another. HHday resides at the Street Prophets Coffee Hour, the intersection where politics and religion and faith and history and ethical values and art conveniently meet and sometime collide.
Here’s what we do and why we do it: Humpday — because we’re smack dab in the middle of the work week and getting over that hump sure looks sweet. But for some folks in this community, the humps they need to get over are far more daunting than looking forward to the weekend. That is where Helping comes in. Helping Humpday is specifically about generating community support for struggling Kossacks who find themselves facing an imminent financial need like keeping the lights on, avoiding eviction, getting to work, paying medical bills. Our goal is to publicize the Community Needs List and other fundraisers for needy Kossacks as widely across the site as possible. Our motto is simple: many hands make light work.
This Week’s Highlighted Needs
1) PamLaPier’s fundraiser for her senior cat’s vet care and her November rent needs some love.She still needs $975. Can you help? She has a new job and should be self-sufficient by the end of next month, but an unexpected delay in the job start has really put her back financially. PayPal is pamelalapier at gmail dot com.
2) jan4insight is struggling to meet her house payment this month and needs about $685 + $145 for vet meds. It’s a tough environment out there right now for artisans and small vendors. It’s so hard for small online vendors to get noticed in the best of times, with competition fierce and marketing difficult. Jan’s a one-woman (and cat) shop! And despite the pitch that everyone is doing well, sales for tiny indy merchants like jan are slowing, reflecting signs of underlying stress in the economy.
And as stressful as being behind with the October mortgage is, concern for the health of her beloved pet is even more stressful. Jan’s very senior (20 years old) kitty LuvLee has some expensive vet meds that need to be refilled in a week at a cost of $145. That’s $95 for insulin and $50 for her stomach issues. If anyone can help, send via Paypal to burchjan@gmail.com or Ko-fi contribution, or place an order for art, cards, jewelry or crocheted goods at her ZIbbet Shop. As jan says: Your help with this necessity is doubly appreciated, because keeping LuvLee alive & healthy is a big part of keeping me going.
Shop Small and Support an Indie Craftsperson (or two)
Jan is looking to improve her home-based income streams. So here are some new services she is offering. Kossacks should especially check out the TeePublic store, where you can stock up on #Resistance tees, stickers, mugs, laptop cases, and more. Jazz up your wardrobe with animal or artsy tees, or express yourself with statement tees. There’s more to see, including the new Shop Small design! If it looks familiar it’s because jan’s design is used for our own KosKatalogue as well. And everything at her Tee Public Store is ON SALE NOW Oct 16-20th.
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THANK YOU.
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Support Someone on the Community Needs List
Consider A Donation To a Kossack In Need.
The folks on the Community Needs List are struggling. Some need help with a one-time emergency. Others have been have struggled for months. They are working towards financial independence and self-sufficiency, but still need some help. Your small gift can help a family or individual find stability for another month in the face of a crisis. Even $3, or $5, or $10 helps. Thank you so much.
Also, tip, rec, comment here and in the individual diaries. That helps spread the word.
Full Community Needs List
Community Needs List as of 10/11/19 with updates where I have them. Fundraisers who want a diary to be or stay on the list: PLEASE kosmail requests and donations received to njm5000 by Thursday evening to be included on the Friday morning updated list.
Living on the financial edge—need help? Check out the Helping Directories before your next emergency.
Education Fundraisers
JTG needs $1,000 425 for tuition & expenses. (next tuition payment past due). Diary is here GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/… NEED MET — WOOT
• PayPal (James at JamesThomasGreen.com)• Amazon Wishlist: Pet Supplies •
Housing and Transportation Fundraisers
Pam LaPier needed some help with medical expenses for her elderly cat and the initial treatment cost has been met (thanks). But she still needs help with her November rent as her new job start was delayed. Need remains at $3000 1195 1185 975 Smokey’s Lumps; there is a GoFundMe. PayPal is pamelalapier at gmail dot com.
Orlaine NEED MET & EVICTION AVERTED — WOOT needs $1400 750 650 in short order to prevent her eviction. Diary is here.
KM Wehrstein—Still needs $1900 1740 1625 1575 1510 700 670± towards purchasing a reliable vehicle. Wheels fund: eyes on the prize. and Carless in the country, asking for help PayPal: please choose “send money” rather than “pay” if you can — by clicking here. Please note ‘wheels fund’.
SNOOPYDAWG—needs $9,500 6380 5250 4190 3980 3945 3927 3812. Two kossacks offered loans to stop the foreclosure and future funds raised will repay them. Diary is here. Update is here.
PayPal snoopydawg@earthlink.net and www.gofundme.com/…
You can also purchase snoopydawg’s photos at
www.midlifeartistsunlimited.org/…
Medical and Veterinary Fundraisers
MICHELEWIN—needs help with medical bills. $3900 2625 2560± now $6000 with another surgery pending. She has been so strong for so long, but is now struggling emotionally and physically. Her original diary from 2/2 Caregiver Burnout: Help Needed, diary 5/9: www.dailykos.com/…, 8/28 www.dailykos.com/…
PayPal is michelewilson327 at gmail dot com
Good News: arabian didn’t meet her goal, but said she was able to pay this month’s bills and thinks she’ll be able to pay down her credit card so off the Needs Lit, WOOT.
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MORE WAYS TO HELP BELOW THE FOLD
More Ways To Help
The NEW full Kos Katalogue is here
SOCIAL MEDIA — Help Spread the Word
Help us get the word out! If helping financially isn’t the right option for you — or you want to do more — then be the link between need and fulfillment. If you are active on Social Media, go to the linked fund-raising pages on the Needs List and use the social media icons on the page to share it throughout your contacts on Facebook, Twitter, whatever platform you use. If you are active on DKOS, and it is appropriate for your members, republish this diary to your groups and tip, comment, rec so it stays on the sidebar as long as possible.
What’s the philosophy behind the Community Needs List? I will let bfitzinAR, the original founder of Helping Humpday, speak for us:
Kossacks taking care of our own — helping by sharing/donating money or needed items, helping by sharing both donation site links and artisan/vendor site links and purchasing gifts for self or others via those links, helping by sharing knowledge and informational links, or helping by just sharing a hug or a cup of coffee as appropriate — is what community is all about.
We are community — clan, tribe, company, village, culture, and state. Community survives beyond the life of any single member and thrives by supporting and strengthening the life of each individual member — by helping each other, by sharing — all together.
Until such time as we get the government that we want and deserve, when there will be no need for fundraisers, there will always be some Kossacks who need the help and compassion of this kind, friendly, and generous community.
Today’s musical interlude is an ode to finding our way back to our safe harbor, wherever or whatever or whoever that may be. It’s Rod Stewart’s Sailing.
The blog is now open!
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