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Red Canary has sponsored and promoted #CWABG Zoom events via our social media, newsletter and website. We continue to support #CWABG in refining their branding DNA for their mission, website and digital marketing. We additionally provide business services for #CWABG to continue bridging the racial divide. Coffee With A Black Guy⏤Coffee. Connection. Conversation. Total goal $50K.
James Joyce III is a civil rights activist and founder of Coffee With A Black Guy. #CWABG offers a safe place for engaging community conversations about a variety of issues from the perspective of Black people. These conversations began following months of racial and ethnic tumult in American society and beyond, culminating with the trifecta of events in Baton Rouge/Minnesota/ Dallas in early July 2016. It is a growing, grassroots effort hosted by Joyce and his team to help put an end to racism. For these efforts and more, the Ventura County branch of the NAACP awarded Joyce with their 2018 Distinguished Citizen Award. Joyce is currently running for mayor of Santa Barbara, CA, and for much of the past decade, he has served as district director for State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson.
Ágape Misión Mundial
Red Canary is currently working with Ágape Misión Mundial to help them form partnerships with mission-aligned organizations to generate donations for their website, a land purchase, two kitchens and furniture. We may partner with a celebrity to raise the funds. Total goal $150K.
Ágape Misión Mundial , an albergue currently housing migrants awaiting asylum hearings (many are children), was founded by Pastor Albert Rivera, a truly remarkable advocate for migrants since 2005. Ágape Misión Mundial is his creation and life’s work. Pastor Rivera spearheaded a successful protest campaign to publicize how CBP was illegally denying entry to migrants with court orders to appear, which caused them to lose their asylum since they couldn’t make it to their hearings. Rivera got the Mexican Embassy in the US and other government entities involved to reverse this practice and reinstate the migrants’ rights to appear for their court dates issued under the Migrant Protection Protocols Treaty. Since Biden became President, thousands of migrants traveling via caravan from Guatemala, are already waiting in border towns—10K in cities like TJ, and 7K in Tapachula—with untold numbers coming soon. Pastor Albert, founder of the Ágape Misión Mundial church & large shelter in Mexico, secured initial 501(c)3 status in the USA on December 18, 2020.
Red Canary will support Promote Care & Prevent Harm Zoom and Live events via our social media, newsletter and website. We continue to support Promote Care & Prevent Harm in refining the branding DNA for their mission, website and digital marketing. Total goal $50K.
Promote Care & Prevent Harm, a social enterprise nonprofit organization, is empowering leaders to create a more proactive culture through research and programs that not only prevent violence, disease, mental illness, and isolation, but promote peace, health, mental wellness, and connection in schools and organizations. Co-founded by Shane McCarty, PhD and Kyle Pacque after a youth-led movement for compassion after the Virginia Tech shooting, it evolved to address tragic school shootings and build a culture of care. It’s since then grown into a nonprofit organization focused on developing and implementing research-based programs for youth to build safer, healthier and more connected communities.
Red Canary has partnered with Biocitizen Inc. to provide the following: Support content and media creation to clarify mission across audiences, amplify website and purpose outreach to enable provide equity of access for under-served communities in the areas served by all of our schools via a scholarship fund of $150K which could provide 1 week of camp for free or reduced tuition camp to up to 225 students who otherwise could not afford it, throughout 2022; secure support from at least one foundation or corporation to provide annual scholarship and name the scholarship fund (“Off the Screen & Into the Green” is our fundraising theme); secure in-kind partners to provide eco-friendly backpacks, binoculars, water bottles and Keen water shoes. This initiative can could be applied to Biocitizen Inc. classrooms company wide. Total goal to increase equity of access to outdoor education at Biocitizen Inc. is around $200K.
Biocitizen Inc. was incorporated in 2010 to provide place-based educational services within the field of environmental philosophy, including operating a school that teaches this subject in both traditional indoor classroom settings and outdoors at local, national and international sites. Biocitizen Inc. has locations in Westhampton, MA; Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY and Concon, Chile.
To ensure educational services of the highest caliber, Biocitizen Inc. conducts scholarly research, develops curricula and syllabi, and trains teachers. It carries out public outreach in-person and through its online platform, and through the creation and dissemination of educational materials in print and other media, reaching the largest audience possible. At Biocitizen Inc. we look to the youth as our vectors of socio environmental awareness, and as the best possible agents of change.
Red Canary Magazine is celebrating its first year of difference-making journalism dedicated explicitly to environmental and social justice. Sponsored by Red Canary Magazine, and edited by award-winning Los Angeles-area journalist Joe Donnelly, the magazine was launched during the peak of the pandemic and has been swimming against the tides of conventional wisdom ever since. Total goal $250K.
“We started with high ambitions,” Donnelly says, “to produce meaningful work that crosses boundaries, provokes discussions, inspires reflection and speaks to the times in ways that prove timeless.” Nearly fifty stories later, that breadth of coverage and diversity of voices includes reports from the turbulent streets of Portland in protest to the American West where the return of gray wolves is under threat, where urban rivers are being reimagined, and so much more. Other highlights include, Erin Aubry Kaplan on radically rethinking policing, Phuong-Cac Nguyen’s cross-generational conversation about culture and identity, and Sam Slovick’s essential reporting from the U.S. and Mexico border. Some of our top featured stories include Red Canary’s tough look at discriminatory practices in our local fire services, plus: Beyond The Heat Dome: Where Do You Escape When Climate Change Overwhelms The West; Fighting For The True Country: Nine Minutes In Chaco Canyon with Diné Activist Cheyenne Antonio; A Trail of Hope and Fear: From Honduras to Mexico and Back with Migrant Caravanners; and Black Eve: Artist Toni Scott shows what good grows in the dark. The Hairy Weirdo With the Key Fob: In which Covid-19 toys with the author’s mind and we achieve explosive results.