Subject: IMPORTANT: Tomorrow is THE DAY to do the GiveBIG Challenge to support Safe Schools Coalition! and Minutes of the 6-21-2011 SSC meeting in PDF format |
From: Gabi Clayton ~ Safe Schools Coalition <gabi@safeschoolscoalition.org> |
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:57:51 -0700 |
To: IMPORTANTNEWS@safeschoolscoalition.org |
GiveBIG is a one-day, online charitable-giving extravaganza inspiring people to donate generously to their favorite nonprofits (like the Safe Schools Coalition) through The Seattle Foundation.
When you make a donation that day through the The Seattle Foundation (www.seattlefoundation.org) online giving page from 7am to midnight on June 23rd (Thursday!) you will be eligible for a match by the Seattle Foundation and local businesses. In addition, every hour one donor will be chosen at random to have an additional $1,000 given to the charity that received their donation. One lucky donor will receive an extra $5,000 for their charity!
Be a part of the GiveBIG Challenge tomorrow, June 23rd and support Safe Schools Coalition. Thank you!!Safe Schools Coalition can't serve a world-wide constituency without you!
If you are thinking about donating to help us this is the time to do it!
Your donation will support us as we work to reduce bias-based bullying and violence in schools and to help schools better meet the needs of sexual minority youth and children with sexual minority parents/guardians locally, nationally and internationally, by ...
providing resources to schools (posters, publications),
raising parent/guardian, student, educator and community awareness (list serve, website, public speaking, media),
providing skill-based training for educators (administrators and other professional and paraprofessional staff),
serving as a technical advisory resource (to researchers, policy-makers, educators and activists -- students, parents/guardians, community members), and
conducting and disseminating research (to educators, policy-makers and activists).
And also serves the community within Washington State by ...
intervening and advocating on behalf of individual students, educators and families experiencing sexual orientation/identity-based harassment and violence, and
holding legislators, school boards and school administrators accountable for making schools safe and free of bias-based bullying and violence, through community organizing and principled activism.