Whitney's Birthday Giving Challenge
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Hello Family, Friends, and Community!
My birthday is coming up, and this year I have been inspired by a dear friend of mine to raise money for causes that I care deeply about, who are working tirelessly to make real change in their communities. I want my birthday to be a time when I remember that it is our responsibility to take care of each other and our planet.
There are two organizations I want to share with you that are very close to my heart. I would feel so honored to help support the work that these amazing organizations are doing, so please consider donating whatever you can!
Kindred Space LA Birth Center Fund:
Kindred Space LA is a hub for midwifery care, doula support, lactation consulting, education, support groups, enrichment, meditation and movement. Its founders, Allegra Hill and Kimberly Durdin, had a vision to grow more birth workers of color and to create a community space in South LA. They have trained over 200 individuals as birth workers and have participated in and encouraged the formation of groups, healing circles, father’s support, mom’s support, body positive workshops, low cost lactation clinics, pelvic floor healing, infant development, mental health support, anti-racism circles, trauma informed training's, and birth worker trainings. They have celebrated Black Breastfeeding week, screened films, hosted baby-wearing workshops, given away countless items and products for parents in need (including baby carriers, diapers & clothing), and created a nurturing space where folks can meet up, connect, and meet new friends and chosen family.
Their goal has always been to OPEN A BIRTH CENTER, and at the start of 2020 they began searching for a new home for Kindred Space LA that included space onsite for birth. COVID-19 has created “The Time Is Now” opportunity. To move forward in these new and changing times, they are creating their next incarnation so that they may continue to serve the families of Los Angeles that they love so dearly, especially now, when their services as midwives and lactation consultants to provide care outside of hospital are needed most.
https://www.kindredspacela.com/
Communities For A Better Environment:
CBE’s mission-
Founded in 1978, Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) is one of the preeminent environmental justice organizations in the nation. The mission of CBE is to build people’s power in California’s communities of color and low income communities to achieve environmental health and justice by preventing and reducing pollution and building green, healthy and sustainable communities and environments.
CBE provides residents in blighted and heavily polluted urban communities in California with organizing skills, leadership training and legal, scientific and technical assistance, so that they can successfully confront threats to their health and well-being.
CBE’s Vision-
CBE’s vision embraces local transformation. But the CBE vision goes far beyond local as humanity now faces environmental crisis of global proportions.
The earth’s most vulnerable populations experience the greatest suffering from environmental degradation. Climate change has triggered deadly drought, water shortages and wildfires; air and water pollution threatens food supplies and ways of life. It’s the world environmental crisis can be solved only through a fundamental transformation of our society–from values based on profit-before-all to an approach based meeting people’s fundamental needs.
Lasting solutions happen from the ground up–with the participation and leadership of residents and workers most directly affected by pollution and environmental degradation. The struggle for environmental justice is intrinsic to movement for social justice–in the U.S. and throughout the world.
CBE envisions a society in which production and consumption are based on environmental and social sustainability, where it’s held as a basic human right to breathe clean air and drink clean water in the environment where we live, work, go to school, play, and pray—regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, age, culture, ability, nationality, or income.
http://www.cbecal.org/
My birthday is coming up, and this year I have been inspired by a dear friend of mine to raise money for causes that I care deeply about, who are working tirelessly to make real change in their communities. I want my birthday to be a time when I remember that it is our responsibility to take care of each other and our planet.
There are two organizations I want to share with you that are very close to my heart. I would feel so honored to help support the work that these amazing organizations are doing, so please consider donating whatever you can!
Kindred Space LA Birth Center Fund:
Kindred Space LA is a hub for midwifery care, doula support, lactation consulting, education, support groups, enrichment, meditation and movement. Its founders, Allegra Hill and Kimberly Durdin, had a vision to grow more birth workers of color and to create a community space in South LA. They have trained over 200 individuals as birth workers and have participated in and encouraged the formation of groups, healing circles, father’s support, mom’s support, body positive workshops, low cost lactation clinics, pelvic floor healing, infant development, mental health support, anti-racism circles, trauma informed training's, and birth worker trainings. They have celebrated Black Breastfeeding week, screened films, hosted baby-wearing workshops, given away countless items and products for parents in need (including baby carriers, diapers & clothing), and created a nurturing space where folks can meet up, connect, and meet new friends and chosen family.
Their goal has always been to OPEN A BIRTH CENTER, and at the start of 2020 they began searching for a new home for Kindred Space LA that included space onsite for birth. COVID-19 has created “The Time Is Now” opportunity. To move forward in these new and changing times, they are creating their next incarnation so that they may continue to serve the families of Los Angeles that they love so dearly, especially now, when their services as midwives and lactation consultants to provide care outside of hospital are needed most.
https://www.kindredspacela.com/
Communities For A Better Environment:
CBE’s mission-
Founded in 1978, Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) is one of the preeminent environmental justice organizations in the nation. The mission of CBE is to build people’s power in California’s communities of color and low income communities to achieve environmental health and justice by preventing and reducing pollution and building green, healthy and sustainable communities and environments.
CBE provides residents in blighted and heavily polluted urban communities in California with organizing skills, leadership training and legal, scientific and technical assistance, so that they can successfully confront threats to their health and well-being.
CBE’s Vision-
CBE’s vision embraces local transformation. But the CBE vision goes far beyond local as humanity now faces environmental crisis of global proportions.
The earth’s most vulnerable populations experience the greatest suffering from environmental degradation. Climate change has triggered deadly drought, water shortages and wildfires; air and water pollution threatens food supplies and ways of life. It’s the world environmental crisis can be solved only through a fundamental transformation of our society–from values based on profit-before-all to an approach based meeting people’s fundamental needs.
Lasting solutions happen from the ground up–with the participation and leadership of residents and workers most directly affected by pollution and environmental degradation. The struggle for environmental justice is intrinsic to movement for social justice–in the U.S. and throughout the world.
CBE envisions a society in which production and consumption are based on environmental and social sustainability, where it’s held as a basic human right to breathe clean air and drink clean water in the environment where we live, work, go to school, play, and pray—regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, age, culture, ability, nationality, or income.
http://www.cbecal.org/
Organizer
Whitney Dicterow
Organizer
Los Angeles, CA