Couple quick reminders before we get to the other thing:
Matinee tomorrow — tomorrow being Sunday — at 3:00. Friction Farm from North Carolina, and Eric Phelps from Massachusetts. You should come!
The one after that on November 19, an evening show with Nashville-based Sam Robbins and Sandy Bailey up from Massachusetts, is going to be stellar.
Every year, we refuse to participate in Giving Tuesday.
Usually we mock it.
We sure can be self-righteous sometimes.
But like many debased things, Giving Tuesday is actually built around an excellent kernel:
"Whether it’s making someone smile, helping a neighbor or stranger out, showing up for an issue or people we care about, or giving some of what we have to those who need our help, every act of generosity counts and everyone has something to contribute toward building the better world we all want to live in."
That's pretty great, really. Let's celebrate like that.
It isn't supposed to be about enduring wave after wave of donation pitches.
To be fair, though, we can totally understand why Giving Tuesday gets used as a funding platform. Mission-driven organizations (like we are) really do mean well — most of us do, anyway — and paying the bills and trying to improve mission fulfillment is an endless quest.
You should absolutely feel free to give financial support to organizations that you think deserve it, and you absolutely should feel good about it if you do. If Giving Tuesday is a convenient reminder to do something you meant to do anyway, that's OK. Good, even.
But every day can be Giving Tuesday:
"Whether it’s making someone smile, helping a neighbor or stranger out, showing up for an issue or people we care about, or giving some of what we have to those who need our help, every act of generosity counts and everyone has something to contribute toward building the better world we all want to live in."
Having said all that, now we give you whiplash and possibly expose ourselves as pompous and two-faced: The fundraiser we're running to
, pre and post, is stalled at 25%. We're not complaining! 25% is awesome!
But we're also not comfortable doing the Persistent Ask, so it's the last time we're going to mention it until sometime after November 28... which is about the time you'll start getting hammered with year-end appeals.
