Todayswheather
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7 years ago In the realm of volunteering I was thinking like, If you're an attorney, where are the LGBT legal places in your community that you could volunteer, what can you do to help name changes go through before January?; If you're a doctor, can you volunteer in women's health or an LGBT friendly low cost clinic; If you're in the mental health arena or just amenable to it, can you volunteer at a crisis line or offer increased sliding scale mental health services; For the politically inclined/writer types, access on information on who and how to write letters to implore politicians to take steps to support people at risk
Options for ultimate tasks: http://www.lambdalegal.org/
http://www.shusterman.com/immigrationorganizations/
Another simple task is something like picking a charity organization that receives benefits when you shop somewhere. Amazon Smile does this. If you're getting married, theknot has a registry option for this.
http://www.thetrevorproject.org/pages/volunteer
This organization does low commitment one time volunteering: https://www.onebrick.org/
This issue is for literally anyone to work through: add any actions someone could take.
Decision tree thought:
Money vs Time
Help Individuals Directly (way to search gofundme pages for top-surgery/people in healthcare crises?) vs Help Organizations (ALCU, SPLC, etc) Money Split: Stable Money (recurrent donations) vs Currently Have Money (single donations)
Time How much time do you have? 30 minutes (send letter to congressperson, make phone call, etc) 1 hour On-going available time?
Skilled projects that need help (list of civic-minded github projects/orgs like Code for America) vs Canvassing vs Phone banking vs...