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HinTN Wants to Match Your Four Directions GA Donations!

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Four Directions and Fair Fight are teaming up for early field organizing in Georgia – the goal is to have the money raised and people hired and on the ground by the end of September.  In order to do that, $100,000 is needed in the next couple of weeks, with $50k coming from Fair Fight and $50k coming from Four Directions.  That’s a big lift in a short timeframe for Four Directions!

What is our part in this?   Help Four Directions meet their goal, by raising $25,000 on Balloon Juice.

Four Directions is working on someone to match our $25k, if we can raise that.  They have found a possible match-er, though it is not set in stone yet.  But the agreement will be that IF we get to our $25k, THEN the $25k match will be made.

Inspired by Mousebumples who was inspired by MomSense, HinTN has offered to match new Four Directions GA donations up to a total of $1,000!

Any donation between $10 and $50 is eligible for your match.

Tell us the amount of your donation in the comments, and he will match with that amount.  HinTN’s $1,000 donation will be made once $1,000 of matchable donations have been noted in the comments.

If you donate more than $50, HinTN will match $50 of that.

$25,000 for Four Directions Organizing Project
with Fair Fight in GA

Goal Thermometer

Read More:
Four Directions teams up
with Fair Fight in Georgia!

Thank you, HinTN!  From myself, Balloon Juice, Four Directions, Fair Fight, native people and every  sane person in Georgia: thank you so very much!

And here’s an early thank you to everyone who will take HinTN up on his match!

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  1. 1.

    WaterGirl

    We had some great conversation on the zoom with Four Directions last night.  We had about 15 people, I think.  I’ll let them jump in and them share whatever they like from the zoom.

  3. 3.

    mvr

    I did one yesterday, but given the match offer I added another just now for $25.​

    Thanks HinTN!

  10. 10.

    Joe Falco

    I made my $25 donation. I’m excited for next year with the hope we can not only keep our gains but expand them!

  15. 15.

    Lyrebird

    Hi, did I miss out?

     

    I gave $18 the day before the Zoom chat.  I think I was between #27 and #29 on the thermometer.

     

    Can’t really allocate more until next month.

  16. 16.

    WaterGirl

    Much appreciated, everyone!

    I am really hoping that we can contribute to this effort in a way that gets them not only our donations, but also the full $50,000 they need for their part in this joint effort, if we can raise enough to allow them to get a match for our $25k.

    It means a lot to me that groups like this see us as an ally that can be counted on when they need something, especially if it’s something time-sensitive.

    Balloon Juice is kind of unique in this way – because we are a large community but not an official organization, we can move quickly when needed, with not board and no bureaucracy.

  17. 17.

    Elizabelle

    Yea H in TN!!  I donated yesterday, but might throw in some more later.  Although:  I would bet jackals will be hitting the $1k mark before day’s end. If not, Ebelle$$ will be forthcoming.

  18. 18.

    MomSense

    Hot tamales!  I’m in for $10 – I also have a recurring set up.  I was so sorry to miss the zoom last night.

  19. 19.

    Elizabelle

    Georgia is so important.  Thrilled to see Four Directions working there, and partnering with Fair Fight and Fair Count.  All good.

  20. 20.

    WaterGirl

    @Lyrebird: Well, you did miss out on the HinTN match, but your donation earlier this week is still much appreciated, and it will definitely count toward the $25k that we hope to get to so they can get a match for our amount!

  31. 31.

    prostratedragon

    Donated $25 just now. Zoom last night was inspiring, so good to hear about focused activism.

  35. 35.

    Elizabelle

    @prostratedragon:   I regret missing most of it, despite being signed in.  Was on the phone a lot.

    I wish it had been recorded for internal sharing only.  Can understand why it might not be.

  37. 37.

    H.E.Wolf

    Thank you to HinTN for the generous matching pledge! And thank you to WaterGirl for masterminding our participation as allies in support of groups working to bring their community members to the polls.

    During last night’s Zoom event, the co-founder of Four Directions said that he would soon be putting up a YouTube video about their successes and future goals, and that he’d let WaterGirl know so that she could let all of us know.

    Near the end of the event, Wolvesvalley located a quotation that I’d vaguely remembered:

    “My princess,” he said tenderly, “two great powers are on our side: the power of love and the power of arithmetic. Those two are stronger than anything else in the world.”  ― E. Nesbit, The Book of Dragons

    That seems like a good mission statement for our fundraising. :)

  39. 39.

    WaterGirl

    @H.E.Wolf: Great minds!

    At the exact same time as your post went up, I had just pressed send on a reminder message to them about getting the video up on YouTube so I can embed it. :-)

  45. 45.

    H.E.Wolf

    @Joy in FL: ​@H.E.Wolf: I love that quote. Of course it’s in a book about dragons!

     
    I was so hoping it was the dragon who said it… but it was a feller named Nigel.

    (Which is almost as good. I’ve met some very nice Nigels!)

  46. 46.

    H.E.Wolf

    @WaterGirl: At the exact same time as your post went up, I had just pressed send on a reminder message to them about getting the video up on YouTube so I can embed it. :-)

     
    Smart idea to do a reminder message. Sounds as if they’re working 36-hour days….

  47. 47.

    WaterGirl

    @H.E.Wolf: Thanks.  They have never put a video up on YouTube before, so there will be a learning process, or at least a delegating process to find someone to do it for them.

    Either one is a hurdle, so I thought a reminder message might be helpful.  :-)

  49. 49.

    Mousebumples

    I’m maxed out on available cash for the time being, but I wanted to thank HinTN for doing this! Thanks to all of you for donating. ?

  52. 52.

    Wolvesvalley

    @H.E.Wolf: I love the fact that the enchanted princess who needs to be rescued from the Island of the Nine Whirlpools is as sharp as Nigel. He is the one who is good at math, but she makes critical observations (she tells him the dragon falls asleep for five minutes every day, but three minutes later each time; she notices that the statue of the witch has the needed equation inscribed on it, copies it down, and brings it to him; she also figures out how to deal with the griffin after looking at the rest of the statue inscription).

    And, of course, the story is full of great Nesbit-isms (e.g., ” ‘There is one thing I should rather like,’ said the witch, ‘but it’s hard to get in my trade.’ ‘Oh, tell me what,’ said the Queen. ‘I should like some one to love me,’ said the witch.” Also: “and they all lived happily as long as was good for them”).

  56. 56.

    WaterGirl

    @Mousebumples: I very much hope we are able to do this.  I know it’s a big ask, but I am crossing my fingers.

    I actually tear up when I think that we could play a big part in getting early boots on the ground in Georgia.

  57. 57.

    S. Cerevisiae

    I pitched in 15, that’s all I can do right now but this is such a great cause.

  63. 63.

    Madeleine

    I’ve been impressed with 4D ever since our first contact with them, but our meeting with them last evening really confirmed my impression. Their on the ground knowledge about people, what fund-raising requires (as OJ said over and over, “messaging”), what they can accomplish (and what is not their work, too) , their connections (including to Native American groups in other states), and more is just solid. I’m really enthusiastic a out their plan to work with Georgia’s Native Americans. Considering what they did for Biden in AZ, I’m hopeful!

  65. 65.

    WaterGirl

    We did it!

    The match amount has been met with donations in the comments, and then some!

    As of this moment, the thermometer says 8,095.  With the $1,000 from HinTN later today, that will be 9,095.  Even though further donations today won’t be matched, it would be amazing if we could get to $10,000 in the thermometer before bedtime.

    Thank you so very much HinTN, and thank you EVERYONE who is donating.  Jackals are good people.

    edit: HinTN will let us know when he has put in his $1,000, or that he has just put it in, so we can have the thrill of seeing the thermometer.

  67. 67.

    Quiltingfool

    I see many people have donated!  Yay!  I think a treat is in order.  I’m going to write down the nym of each person who donated today and then “pick a nym out of a hat” (actually I use a random selection program on the computer, lol!).  I will send the winner a mystery package containing something I’ve made.  I’m going to lean on Watergirl to make a connection for mailing.  Now, if you win but don’t want to receive anything, no problem, I can choose another person.  I don’t want to violate anyone’s privacy.
    I like that the community here wants to help.  This is a wonderful place!

  68. 68.

    Quiltingfool

    Oh, I have done well selling quilts this month (two people on Balloon Juice purchased quilts when I did a quilt drawing for Voces, much appreciated) so I’m in for $50!

  70. 70.

    Quiltingfool

    @WaterGirl: I’m going to give folks some time to donate here.  I think I’ll check the names tomorrow, that way people who may donate this evening will get a chance to win.  I do believe that HinTN deserves a treat, too…so I’m thinking there will be TWO mystery packages forthcoming!

  73. 73.

    HinTN

    I’ve been away all day but $9670, no matter how we reached it, is great work folks. Georgia, being right next door and showing the way to blue, is near to my heart. Well done! The match is in the pot.

  75. 75.

    WaterGirl

    Holy cow-ski!  We are at 10,670!!!

    We were at 5,375 when the post went up, so that’s 5,295 raised today.

    So $1,000 from HinTN turned into more than $5,000.

    If we can get to the $25,000, the external matching donor will turn that 5k+ into 10,000!

    If that happens, $1,000 will have turned into $10,000!

    Jackals rock doesn’t begin to cover it.

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