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DONATION SKETCHSTREAM | NOW LIVE!
Streaming sketches for donations all day! SIGN UP HERE although the queue might be closed for a while due to high demand.
This Stream WILL be (visually) SFW. No dicks were requested this time, hah!
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Check out For Cairne Sake's fundraiser for National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on Tiltify. Every Month For Cairne Sake chooses a beneficiary for whom our volunteers stream Video Games and Creative content in support of.Join the For Cairne Sake family! Chat with us on twitch, Discord ( https://discord.gg/011u1VK8q5R7JIc1X ), or Apply to Volunteer ( https://goo.gl/forms/58WWklih1t9CGi6S2 )!
For the month of August we're happy to announce that we'll once again be supporting the amazing work of National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
As we start gearing up for each month's event I want to try and get a bit of info from the team! This information will be used each month to help prepare a plan for the next month's marathon. Let's do this! (Charities presented with Charity Navigator Rating)
The time has come to begin deciding our next #Charity Beneficiary. Please help us vote on who it will be!
Check out For Cairne Sake's fundraiser for National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on Tiltify. Every Month For Cairne Sake chooses a beneficiary for whom our volunteers stream Video Games and Creative content in support of. Join the For Cairne Sake family! Chat with us on twitch, Discord ( https://discord.gg/011u1VK8q5R7JIc1X ), or Apply to Volunteer ( https://goo.gl/forms/58WWklih1t9CGi6S2 )!
We are proud to announce that our Beneficiary for the month of 2017 is @MissingKids!
Help protect civil liberties by donating to the ACLU. You can join as a member, renew your membership, or become a monthly donor.
The Recent events in the United States have put many in shock. From a Ban on travel from Muslim countries, to congressional arguments on the appointment of hardly qualified appointees by President Donald Trump. Many are living in fear, are hurt, or have already died as a result of the current administration. In order to help those who most need it in our nation, For Cairne Sake is revising our policies and embarking on great changes to our events.
For the first time since 2015, For Cairne Sake is opening the channel to our volunteers Every day of the Week for the Entire Month of February 2017. In doing so we are also performing our first event where donations will be untracked.
For the Month of February, For Cairne Sake will be streaming as often as we can in support of the American Civil Liberties Union so that we may help them as they fight on the front lines against the unconstitutional actions of the Trump Administration.
Join us when you are able as we stream as often as we are able and help to educate the audience we have on the wrongs of the current administration and what the ACLU are doing to help. From assisting with Law Advice in the airports, to active lobbying and voter support to ensure our representatives are voting in ways that ensure Human Rights remain and progress toward equality for all peoples living or visiting the United States.
For Stream Scheduling see the Feb 2017 Weekly Schedule: https://goo.gl/RmWyNZ (Updated as frequently as possible)
Help protect civil liberties by donating to the ACLU. You can join as a member, renew your membership, or become a monthly donor.
The Recent events in the United States have put many in shock. From a Ban on travel from Muslim countries, to congressional arguments on the appointment of hardly qualified appointees by President Donald Trump. Many are living in fear, are hurt, or have already died as a result of the current administration. In order to help those who most need it in our nation, For Cairne Sake is revising our policies and embarking on great changes to our events.
For the first time since 2015, For Cairne Sake is opening the channel to our volunteers Every day of the Week for the Entire Month of February 2017. In doing so we are also performing our first event where donations will be untracked.
For the Month of February, For Cairne Sake will be streaming as often as we can in support of the American Civil Liberties Union so that we may help them as they fight on the front lines against the unconstitutional actions of the Trump Administration.
Join us when you are able as we stream as often as we are able and help to educate the audience we have on the wrongs of the current administration and what the ACLU are doing to help. From assisting with Law Advice in the airports, to active lobbying and voter support to ensure our representatives are voting in ways that ensure Human Rights remain and progress toward equality for all peoples living or visiting the United States.
For Stream Scheduling see the Feb 2017 Weekly Schedule: https://goo.gl/RmWyNZ (Updated as frequently as possible)
How to call your reps when you have social anxiety
When you struggle with your mental health on a daily basis, it can be hard to take action on the things that matter most to you. The mental barriers anxiety creates often appear insurmountable. But sometimes, when you really need to, you can break those barriers down. This week, with encouragement from some great people on the internet, I pushed against my anxiety and made some calls to members of our government. Here’s a comic about how you can do that, too. (Resources and transcript below.)
Motivational resources: There are a lot! Here are a few I really like:
Emily Ellsworth explains why calling is the most effective way to reach your congressperson.
Sharon Wong posted a great series of tweets that helped me manage my phone anxiety and make some calls.
Kelsey is tweeting pretty much daily with advice and reminders about calling representatives. I found this tweet an especially great reminder that calls aren’t nearly as big a deal as anxiety makes them out to be.
Informational resources: There are a lot of these, as well! These three are good places to start:
Find your representative at house.gov
Find your senators at senate.gov
Use the “We’re His Problem Now” scripts when calling (or write your own!)
Keep reading
You can also send a fax for free to your Senators!
FAX 📠 YOUR 📠 SENATOR
(Link is via Do Not Link)
Autism Speaks is accepting support from Soldiers of Odin, a white supremacist vigilante group, and happily featuring their group portrait on their website asking for $ to fund their shitty autistic-abusing organisation. As A$ are flat-out eugenicists and the organisation’s leadership is in bed with Trump, I for one am very unfucking surprised that they’re chill with their money-making events being full of actual Nazis. So much for their new ‘progressive’ mission statement. Do not trust or support A$.
if you donate to ACLU, tweet your receipt to Sia and she will match it up to 100k.
if you donate to CAIR, tweet your receipt to grimes and she will match it up to 10k
please add on other people/celebrities/whoever that are doing this so everyone can make the most of their donations!
Hank Green is donating $5 for every handwritten sign/message of support written to muslims/immigrants/refugees to the ACLU, so make sure to tweet those at him.
Chris Sacca is matching up to 75k if you tweet your receipt of donation to the ACLU at him.
Going to #PAXSouth this weekend? Look out for our Lead Project Coordinator Farronox! He'll be on the floor all three days happy to talk #Charity and #Livestreaming.
Check out For Cairne Sake's fundraiser for AbleGamers Charity on Tiltify.
We're a bit short staffed this month, but if you're not at #PAXSouth, or want to chill after a day on the floor, Kain Oborin will be live at 9pm overnight Saturday with some awesome Animoo games!
Third Annual Icecrown Challenge
We’re back again for a third year of the Icecrown Challenge for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention with an even higher fundraising goal and more awesome giveaways on Twitter from creatives like Faebelina, Skog Designs, and Frenone! There’s also a new painful, warlock-related punishment for me if we meet our goal, so take your revenge with that donation button, warlocks!
You can make your donations directly to the AFSP here, download graphics to help spread the word here, and if you have any questions or suggestions, hit me up on Twitter. Thank you again for supporting the Icecrown Challenge!
Our first marathon started with World of Warcraft and Diablo 3. If you play, go have fun, do some good. You have our support ;)
Check out For Cairne Sake's fundraiser for Direct Relief on Tiltify. This month,For Cairne Sake is celebrating New Years Eve in the best way possible, Streaming for Charity! Benefitting Direct Relief, join us for 24 hour of Jackbox Party Pack and other party games as we usher in the new year by donating our time to a great cause!
We promise, we’re as ready to celebrate the end of 2016 as you. In fact, let’s make it a party!
Join us at 5pm CST on Saturday Dec 31st for 24 hours of Party games, Minecraft, and Retro games to ease our way into the new year.
All in support of Direct Relief
Schedule is now live on Tilfity!
Check out For Cairne Sake's fundraiser for Direct Relief on Tiltify. This month,For Cairne Sake is celebrating New Years Eve in the best way possible, Streaming for Charity! Benefitting Direct Relief, join us for 24 hour of Jackbox Party Pack and other party games as we usher in the new year by donating our time to a great cause!
We promise, we're as ready to celebrate the end of 2016 as you. In fact, let's make it a party!
Join us at 5pm CST on Saturday Dec 31st for 24 hours of Party games, Minecraft, and Retro games to ease our way into the new year.
All in support of Direct Relief
Schedule is now live on Tilfity!
Zeldathon Cures is live (countdown atm) this week in support of St Judes. And, in response to the awful loss of Carrie Fisher I purpose we start it off with a bang. The official event starts in 2 hours at 4pm EST. At that time I would love to see as many of us as possible donate either $66.00 or $10.59. These totals will play the secret sounds “Order 66″ and “Excuse me Princess” respectively. In my mind, this is a great way to honor such an icon. https://www.twitch.tv/supermcgamer
Short of donating pop can tabs to the charity of your choice, it's hard to think of a fundraiser with a lower rate of return
It’s one of Canada’s most cherished holiday practices, and it may also be unwittingly robbing resources from some of Canada’s most important charities.
You’ve seen it at the office. You’ve seen it at the library. You’ve seen it at your kids’ Christmas recital. You’ve seen it championed by police, firefighters and municipal officials.
I’m talking, of course, about donating canned goods to holiday food drives.
Now don’t get me wrong. Donating to charity is a good thing, particularly during the holidays, when many charities budget for yuletide donations. But, the simple rules of economics are begging you: Give money to food banks, rather than food.
Canned goods have a particularly low rate of charitable return. They’re heavy, they’re awkward and they can be extremely difficult to fit into a family’s meal plan. Worst of all, the average consumer is buying their canned goods at four to five times the rock-bottom bulk price that can be obtained by the food bank itself.
That $1 you spent on tuna could have purchased $4 worth of tuna if put in the hands of non-profit employee whose only job is to buy food as cheaply as possible. The savvy buyers at the Calgary Food Bank, for instance, promise that they can stretch $1 into $5.
Probably the worst tragedy of the inefficient food drive is holiday events and theater performances where organizers ask for canned food donations in lieu of selling tickets.
The better option, of course, is to keep selling tickets and donate the box office take to the food bank. By not doing this, these well-meaning organizers are effectively surrendering vast amounts of critically needed grocery money in exchange for heavy cardboard boxes filled with god knows what.
And then there’s the logistical nightmare when these boxes show up at the food bank’s loading dock.
Put yourself in the place of a food bank that has just accepted an anarchic 40 pound box of random food from an office fundraiser. It’s got pie filling, Kraft Dinner, beans, pumpkin and chick peas. All those food items need to be sorted, stored, inventoried and then shoehorned into the food bank’s distribution schedule.
It’s bad form to have low-income families eat nothing but creamed corn until the stocks run dry, so some items move faster than others.
Consider the Herculean plight of the food bank warehouse manager, and it’s easy to imagine how a particularly unhelpful box of food could end up doing nothing but wasting a bunch of people’s time before it ends up shunted into a dumpster.
All this has been known for years, and yet the practice continues. There’s a few reasons for this.
First, charities are extremely leery about telling people how to donate. Nothing alienates a good samaritan faster than watching them pull up in a cube van of donated food, only to suggest that “maybe next time they just cut a cheque.” When charities get picky, it’s human for would-be donors to think that they don’t really the need the help that bad.
Second, people don’t trust charities. Charities have particularly fragile brands, and it only takes one or two charitable scandals showing up in someone’s Facebook feed for them to start casting aspersions on our nation’s non-profits.
So, by donating a flat of condensed milk instead of $30, donors feel they are insulating themselves against any unseemly corruption.
This was something seen during the Fort McMurray fires. Many Albertans, leery of seeing monetary donations vanish down some kind of bureaucratic black hole, insisted instead on donating mountains of diapers and toiletries that got wasted..
And lastly, something that is probably the most uncomfortable fact about all this; it doesn’t feel as good to donate money. As much as we like to pretend that charitable giving is a selfless act, a lot of it is driven by the human need to feel special and magnanimous.
And as donations go, it’s much more satisfying to donate a minivan filled with Ragu than to send a $100 e-transfer.
Charities know this, and it’s another reason why they are so hesitant to pooh-pooh canned food drives, despite the extra logistical cost. Non-profits know that people get a buzz from loudly dropping $6 worth of cans into an office hamper, and they’re happy to channel that urge towards something good.
They also know it’s a tougher sell to convince schools and offices to merely pass the hat for the hungry, rather than big photo-worthy gestures like building towers of creamed corn.
So, if you feel your coworkers or students need something spherical and tactile in order to fire their benevolent instints, then by all means hold a food drive, and remind people to stick to the always-needed staples like peanut butter and canned fish.
But if you’re a pragmatist just looking to vanquish as much poverty as possible with your disposable income, suck it up, key in your credit card number and enter the glorious world of anonymous, non-glamourous philanthropy.
That empty food hamper at your office needn’t be a mark of shame, but a badge of honour.
