First, thank you for being a generous, loving and compassionate human. Your generosity will help someone in our community and make a real difference in someone’s life. EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS. There is no “too small”. A dollar is a can of soup for someone with food insecurity. It all matters. Below is information about the “sale”, mission statements and ways to donate for organizations that do incredible, big work for people in our community.

About the Donation “Sale”

This Saturday (the 18th) Rob and I will be joined by 14 other potters (and the very generous Rita of @rrsecretfarm) in what, I hope, each year will grow into a bigger and bigger event of goodwill and community love. We’ll be setting up tables of our pottery at Good Dirt from 10am to 5pm. Instead of paying us, we'll be asking that you make a donation to an organization around town doing the good work. So, donate *whatever you can* and the pottery is yours. If you are in a position to donate a bit more than the worth of the pottery, that generosity is what lifts up another human in our community, making a direct and powerful impact in Athens. If you find yourself struggling this year, please be kind and generous towards yourself and take something from the tables as a small gift from us. Let’s show up for each other once again. Let’s be willing to care for each once again. Let’s truly make this a season of hope and generosity. For *everyone*.

Places to Donate:

Athens Alliance

MISSION (from their website):

“We are striving to build the homeless Community & give our youth opportunity to develop into positive individuals within their communities.” My Note: This group is amazing and involved and does a bit of everything – education, housing, food drives etc

 VISION STATEMENT:

“We want to provide better lives for our youth and homeless community by providing positive, inspiring programs that make a difference, now and in the future.”

HOW TO DONATE:

Venmo @Athensalliance

If you don’t have a Venmo account and would like to donate to Athens Alliance, you can donate HERE

East Athens Development Corps

Statement of Values (from their website):

All individuals should have safe and comfortable housing, which should lead to home ownership if the family so desires.

All members of the household should have food security to maintain their health and well-being.

Equal access to a high quality, public education

Opportunity to gain meaningful employment, which provides livable wages.

Equal access to support for individuals who are entrepreneurs, in an effort to increase small businesses in the community.

Equal access to primary healthcare services, which leads to early detection of illness, and health information which promotes healthy lifestyles for the household.

All individuals have the right to be proud of their community, which should have educated populace, a robust workforce, a low crime rate in a beautiful environment with adequate green space.

All individuals have the right to be happy and engage in wholesome recreational activities in their community geared to the entire household. 

 

HOW TO DONATE: https://www.eadcinc.org/donate OR CLICK HERE for their latest initiative.

Project Safe

MISSION (from their website):

“We believe that everyone deserves to be safe in their homes and in their relationships, and that love shouldn’t come at a cost of abuse or control. We can envision a world without violence, and we work every day toward the creation of that world.

Project Safe is a 501c3 nonprofit organization working to end domestic violence through crisis intervention, ongoing supportive services, systems change advocacy, and prevention and education. Project Safe’s primary service area is Madison County, Oconee County, Clarke County, and Oglethorpe County, but provides services to people from all over Georgia.”

 

HOW TO DONATE: Click HERE or visit www.project-safe.org/donate/

Mutual Aid Athens

MISSION (from their Facebook Page):

“Mutual Aid Athens is an affinity group that offers political education and in-person mutual aid care. We’re a community in Athens, GA (Creek land). We have no political party alignment whatsoever.

Every day we help the people of and around Athens, GA build strong networks of local trust and strength. We are all we have. Together we help each other eat, pay bills, check-in to motels or other housing, accompany people to the hospital, provide medical education, provide self-defense education, and connect folks to a network of people in skilled trades, eager to offer help for free or barter. We want to gain and spread autonomy.

Some members with stable housing help by hosting a refrigerator or freezer for food redistribution, storage units, sheds, etc and we encourage other mutual aid pods to do the same.

Our work is focused on the needs of houseless folks, low income folks, sex workers, harm reduction, and solidarity with other marginalized neighbors whose circumstances affect their ability to act autonomously.

Any funds collected will be used to further this purpose..”

HOW TO DONATE: https://opencollective.com/athensmutualaidnetwork

or Venmo @mutualaidathens

Athens Nurses Clinic

MISSION (from their website):

“The Athens Nurses Clinic is a non-profit 501(c)(3) health care clinic providing free evaluation, treatment, and education for acute and chronic medical and dental conditions to uninsured low-and-no income residents of Athens-Clarke County and the surrounding communities.”

 

HOW TO DONATE: Click HERE or go to www.paypal.com/fundraiser/charity/1851985