#STARTARYOT: If you could help A Native American, would you?
Have you heard about the #STARTARYOT contest that is running on Crowdrise from now through September 24, 2013? It’s a fundraising challenge among 501(c)3 nonprofits in the U.S. and foreign countries. The top three charities receiving the most donations will receive additional funding ($75,000 or $50,000 or $25,000) from the contest sponsors. This is much needed funding for every charity – but for some more than others.
Share this link to help #STARTARYOT for National Relief Charities. Together, we can feed the hungry & change a life. http://t.co/VXhHTuFHyY
By sharing this on all of your social pages, you will be doing your part to ensure that more people know about the contest and have a chance to do their part. Encourage them to share it with their friends too.
We want to believe that, if more people knew about the dire challenges faced by the Native Americans who are still living on the reservations, more people would help. These are seniors living below poverty level, many without telephones or transportation. They are grandparents raising grandkids in isolated communities cut off from stores, healthcare, and other people.
We want to believe that if more people knew, more people would care. We might be wrong about this. We hope we’re not.
Yet we have to wonder…
… because, typically, philanthropy doesn’t support Native American causes
… because, historically, 99% of the billions given to charity does not address Native concerns
… because we cared less about Native Americans in the past decade and let giving fall to 3/10 of 1%
… because we under-acknowledge and underserve the very minority with the highest need in the U.S.
… because, when the media covers disasters, affected tribes often go unmentioned
… because, we give generously to Third World projects but don’t realize there’s a Third World in the U.S.
… because oppressive policies continue against tribes and our treaty obligations continue unmet
… because some tribes are unrecognized as tribes and barred from federal assistance, even though they inhabited these lands centuries before anyone else
We could go on… And thus, we have to ask: If you could help a Native American today, would you?
Show us you care by sharing the link and supporting our goal to feed Native American grandparents like Bill W. and Huskie. Let them know they matter to you by giving the gift of food.
(Contest Rule: All gifts must go through the Donate Now button on our #STARTARYOT contest page. Per the sponsors, giving through other channels or portals will not count toward the contest.)
7 Comments
I sure would….. though I am native also… even if were yes… what is sad to say most won't…. the only reason they would is to convert them to their religiions.
Aho
Yes, WE can!
yes we can.
Helping the needy people is the main motive of charitable organization like ours. Yes, we will make our best efforts to support this noble cause. For more information on projects that we run visit http://www.globalhandcharity.org.au/projects.html. We work for the betterment of society and its people.
Now I am going to do my breakfast, then coming yet again to read further news.
I really enjoyed what you had to say, and more than that,
how you presented it.