WCID Wednesday: The morning after

Together With

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RECOMMENDED FOLLOWS

I’m extremely excited about this one.

Using only info you’ve shared in your profile — like your favorite co-benefits, your skills, and your location — WCID will now suggest other Shit Givers for you to follow.

It’s only v1 (be gentle), but understand the why:

We’re hell-bent on not only increasing Compound Action across our community, but each of your own Action Potential (deeper explanation coming soon), inspiring you (and the real, verified people that follow you) to get inspired and go deeper and wider.

It’s multisolving for people.

Want to follow Shit Givers who also love food pantries or electric school buses or coding? Great. What about artists or organizers in Rhode Island? You got it.

Already got a profile? See your recommendations (and do custom searches) right here.

Haven’t started your free trial yet? Let’s go!

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TAKE LOCAL ACTION INTO YOUR OWN HANDS, LITERALLY, WITH THESE CUTE PDFS

Change starts at the local level (and it might just be all we got for a little while).

But it’s complicated, and hard, and your neighbors look at your weird. So we wanted to make it much, much easier (and less scary!) for you to organize where you’ll see change the quickest.

We’re SO excited to share our new Be Heard local policy actions.

For each specific, local Be Heard action, we’ve put together a one-page PDF script and resources you can print out, read out, and then leave behind at a local school board or city council meeting.

Each of these one-page scripts are developed in partnership with reputable organizations doing the work on the frontlines. Each action is researched and designed to be as repeatable as possible across thousands of US municipalities.

FIRST UP: Developed with our (best?) friends at Rewiring America and the World Resources Institute, you can now advocate in your community for:

• Electric vehicle charging infrastructure (go)

• Heat pump installations (go) and

• (Quinn’s favorite!) electric school buses (go)

Ok so here’s the deal.

With inauguration day coming down the pipe in January (kill me), federal, state, and local governments are acting quickly to enshrine and protect basic civil liberties and things like climate and health policy from future…interference.

We’re going to support their efforts as best we can, and to start, that includes passing legislation that prohibits the federal government (cough) from compelling journalists, phone, and internet companies to disclose certain protected information, like their sources.

Let’s go.

• Be Heard: Pass the PRESS Act (go)

• Learn: Climate change is happening, but how we do talk to people about it more effectively? Take the Media Literacy Crash Course! (go)

• Organize: Documenters trains and pays hundreds of people to attend under-reported public meetings and publish the results. No more policy in the dark. Volunteer today! (go)

• Learn: Everything is so goddamn complicated — so it’s important to understand why and how, and the most efficient and economical ways we can work against or for them. Our friends at the Multisolving Institute are a great place to start. (go)

• Learn: Planting more trees isn’t THE answer but it’s a BIG answer and the WRI’s Forest Restoration Opportunities atlas is about as reputable as it gets (go)

• Donate to disaster relief. My crusty old heart beats a little harder every week this is in the top searches. (go)

• Volunteer for mental health: This one, too! Y’all are the best. (go)

• Learn about reproductive rights: There’s really just never been a better time to get up to speed (go)

• Buy healthy food: I can’t imagine affordable healthy food is going to get easier in the coming months, but here’s some great resources to get it now while we keep up the fight (go)

• Volunteer: We’re gonna need all the help we can get to actually understand Alzheimer’s, and soon. Become a research volunteer. (go)

• Volunteer: This is wild, but verified: our friends at Food Forward in LA rescues 100,000 pounds of fresh surplus produce — EVERY DAY. Join up or donate! (go)

Well. It sure feels like we built this thing right on time. Much more to come.

DON’T FORGET: You can save actions for later with a WCID profile!

As always, thanks for giving a shit.

— Quinn

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