WCID Wednesday: New features, mayors, and more housing

Plus: smallholder farms in Africa, data privacy, and curated kids books

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Quinn Emmett
October 16, 2024

Together With

Happy Wednesday, Shit Givers.

🎉 I’ve got announcements!

  1. We’re steadily quashing bugs and building out our roadmap, balancing ambition and need with being extremely strapped for resources lol.

  2. As of today, WCID v1.1 is live, bringing with it many dead bugs (bless), some exciting back-end improvements you can’t actually see, and most notably, the first updates to our WCID network.

  3. NEW! Login to your WCID profile, click the red “Community” button, and you’ll see a count AND list of other (real, verified) Shit Givers you’re following and who are following you!

  4. Remember, kids: Compound Action doesn’t happen in isolation, so make sure to share your profile URL and grow your action potential.

  5. We can’t thank you enough for your feedback so far. Keep it coming.

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Let’s go.

— Quinn

  • Be Heard: The Farm Bill is expired and somehow still going but definitely going to kill me. Support small US farmers to try and actually make some money (go)

  • Learn: Find out every little thing you can to do preserve democracy with our friends at Chop Wood, Carry Water (go)

  • Organize: You know who’s on the frontline of climate adaptation and mitigation? Mayors! That’s right. The guy who locked up the Ghostbusters but not Jaws. Let’s help them go electric! (go)

  • Be Heard: Did you know college students are more or less ineligible for SNAP? Yell at your rep about The EATS act. (go)

  • Donate or Volunteer: Join Another Gulf is Possible to stand united in advocating for a just transition that takes the livelihoods of communities and ecosystems into account (go)

  • Learn and buy: Good on You helps you understand what clothes are made of toxic crushed up dinosaur bones and which manufacturers are trying to do it right (go)

  • Volunteer: Become an abortion clinic escort with The Cut. Pretty straightforward. (go)

  • Learn: Check out this essential to being an ally with The Trevor Project (go)

  • Donate: Support Enterprise’s efforts to invest in and advocate for preservation and production of new homes people can actually afford (go)

  • Learn: Physician in family medicine? Want to improve health outcomes for low-income patients? Hook up with the AAFP to figure out how (go)

  • Donate: Transform smallholder farms in Africa with Alliance for A Green Africa (go)

Together With Bookshop

Want to read what the people working on the frontlines of the future are reading?

Every week, I ask our podcast guest, "What’s a book you’ve read this year that’s opened your mind to a topic you haven’t considered before, or that’s changed your thinking in some way?"

And every week, we add their picks to a list on Bookshop, where every purchase on the site financially supports independent bookstores.

INI readers have raised over $1000 for independent bookstores to-date.

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  • Donate to disaster relief (go). Timely, essential, let’s go.

  • Learn about global health (go). No one life is worth more than another.

  • Volunteer for mental health (go). Mutual aid for mental health is table stakes at this point.

  • Be Heard about agriculture (go). Food is good!

  • Learn about electric school buses (go). No more running through diesel fumes for you.

  • Learn about data privacy (go) because, and this will surprise you, you don’t have much

  • Volunteer for gun control (go). You get it.

  • Volunteer: We’re almost at the point where donations won’t move the needle as much as GOTV door-knocking, calls, and texts. Check out volunteer opportunities near you/on your phone with our trusted, democracy-loving partners (go)

  • Buy: Our curated list of books for kids is pretty, pretty rizz, as they say. Sigma. No cap! Check it out here (and support local bookstores while you’re at it)

  • Learn: We’ve got QUITE the shortage of nurses and mid-wives. It’s complicated, but you can train to become a certified nurse-midwife to promote antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum wellness for pregnant people and newborns (go)

That’s it! Forward this baby on to friends and family who are ready to stir up some good trouble.

Remember — you can save actions for later with an WCID profile! Thank you as always for giving a shit.

— Quinn

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