DONATE: The Trevor Project for LGBTQ+ Pride Month!
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June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month! Celebrate by donating to The Trevor Project, the leading suicide prevention and crisis intervention nonprofit organization for LGBTQ+ young people. They provide information and support to LGBTQ+ young people 24/7, all year round.
ABOUT THE TREVOR PROJECT
The Trevor Project is the world’s largest suicide prevention and mental health organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people. The Trevor Project offers a suite of 24/7 crisis intervention and suicide prevention programs, including TrevorLifeline, TrevorText, and TrevorChat as well as the world’s largest safe space social networking site for LGBTQ youth, TrevorSpace. Trevor also operates an education program with resources for youth-serving adults and organizations, an advocacy department fighting for pro-LGBTQ legislation and against anti-LGBTQ rhetoric/policy positions, and a research team to discover the most effective means to help young LGBTQ people in crisis and end suicide.
Source: Charity Navigator
VOLUNTEER: NAACP Actions for Juneteenth
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Juneteenth (officially Juneteenth National Independence Day) is a holiday celebrated annually on June 19th to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. To celebrate, visit the NAACP’s Take Action page and get involved in their mission of activism for civil rights and social justice.
CLICK HERE to get started!
ABOUT NAACP
In 1908, a deadly race riot rocked the city of Springfield, eruptions of anti-black violence – particularly lynching – were horrifically commonplace, but the Springfield riot was the final tipping point that led to the creation of the NAACP. Appalled at this rampant violence, a group of white liberals that included Mary White Ovington and Oswald Garrison Villard (both the descendants of famous abolitionists), William English Walling and Dr. Henry Moscowitz issued a call for a meeting to discuss racial justice. Some 60 people, seven of whom were African American (including W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Mary Church Terrell), signed the call, which was released on the centennial of Lincoln’s birth. On February 12, 1909, the nation’s largest and most widely recognized civil rights organization was born.
You can learn more about the history of the NAACP HERE!
While much of NAACP history is chronicled in books, articles, pamphlets, and magazines, the true movement lies in the faces of the multiracial, multigenerational army of ordinary people who united to awaken the consciousness of a people and a nation. With such a powerful membership base, all 2,200 chapters of the Association continue to persevere. Together, they remain vigilant in their mission until the promise of America is made real for all.
Source: NAACP
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