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NC Black Alliance Found Us an External Match, Let’s Take This Home!

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North Carolina Black Alliance Campus Engagement Project:  Let’s recap, shall we?

We jumped in and started our fundraising while the good folks at NC Black Alliance were still working on a match, because except for that, the timing felt right.  We raised the $30,000 for Phase I and we now have an external match for that.  So whatever your previous donation was, whether it was 2x  or 4x (4x if we had a double-angel match) it has retroactively doubled because of the match.

We were about halfway through our fundraising for Phase II and decided to pause while they worked on securing an external match for that.  Today we got the fabulous news – they were able to secure the external match for Phase II.  They got it done!

Anybody remember what Phase I was about?  Phase II?   Bueller?

The short answer is that Phase I focused on campus engagement at TWO 4-year colleges that are not HBCUs, but have high enrollment of black students.  Phase II is about extending the campus engagement to FOUR 2-year colleges.  If you want more of a refresher than that, click just below to read one of the original posts where we explained the goals.

It’s Up To Us Now, Next Stop, North Carolina!

The four carefully chosen target community colleges:

  • Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, the state’s largest single campus community college
  • Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem
  • Durham Technical Community College in Durham
  • Wake Technical Community College, a multi-campus institution in Raleigh, North Carolina’s largest community

In total, these four urban campuses have over 150,000 students.

No, that is not a typo with an extra zero.

According to the North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research, all four of these campuses serve an even higher percentage of minorities than the population of their service areas.

With this fundraiser, we’re funding canvassers and support staff to hit the ground running when the students return.

Let’s  do this!  Let’s help make North Carolina the next blue state!!

Do we have a North Carolina Balloon Juice Angel to help get us started?  Yes, we do!  Matching up to $100 per person for donations in the comments or in an email to WaterGirl.  Between the external match and the angel match (while it lasts) donations will be 4x.

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  2. 2.

    Paul W.

    In for $25, normally I would do more but… small companies don’t have collection agencies. Ugh…

    Anyways, let’s go NC! The VP and next VP will be there today in my old hometown Raleigh!

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    Yutsano

    I’ll take North Carolina being the next purple state if the gerrymander gets broken. I’m probably going to be moving into an apartment soon, so I am a little strapped on the cash. But I’m hoping by my next raises in December that I can start coughing up more lucre.

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    pat

    In for $100.

    Just watched the videos in the thread below this one and I have to say, it makes me want to cry.  In a good way, of course.

    My Harris/Walz and Cat Ladies hats are on their way!  From teepublic.com, it seems they are made after they are ordered, by an “indie artist.”  (Independent?)

  15. 15.

    rodwell

    Just donated $50, I got to believe NC is within reach especially with Mark Robinson running for governor.  He has to be a drag on Republican turnout.

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    banditqueen

    Incredible, dedicated group of people at NC Black Alliance–I’m sure they’ll be successful. Happy to do what I can to help out–thanks to angels, matches, people who help build up!

  22. 22.

    Anyway

    In for $25. I too am hoping the Mark Robinson drag will provide a boost to Ds up and down the ticket.

  23. 23.

    Ivan X

    $100. What’s money for?

    Something has shifted, my donations have felt more or less dutiful since 2010, now they feel like LET’S GET EM LET’S GOOOOO

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    Dougboy

    Thanks for this wonderful commitment to outreach, and I’ve tossed some cash in the bucket to make it happen!

  29. 29.

    Donatellonerd

    just added 100 — you caught me right after a fairly big payment and since i’m not sure i’ll feel affluent again before the election … quadrupling sounds efficient.

  31. 31.

    KayInMD (formerly Kay (not the front-pager))

    In for $50. No one works as hard as you do, WaterGirl. Thanks.

  33. 33.

    WaterGirl

    Thanks everyone, just taking a quick break from some work for a client.  You are all officially in the spreadsheet, so you have been matched!

    *I record by comment # so I can always go back and check if I need to be sure I got a donation, but I don’t track by nym, so not to worry about that!

    Hey, we just broke $20,000!!

  44. 44.

    H.E.Wolf

    OMG. Woohoo! This is great news. Thank you to WaterGirl and North Carolina Black Alliance for the outside match for the jackals’ $30K! And thank you, North Carolina angel!!

    I agree with Ivan X above: something has shifted. And it is We The People, with our myriad small, concrete actions, who are helping it to shift.

  56. 56.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    In for $25.00.  Thank you, Watergirl, and thank you, North Carolina Black Alliance Youth Organization.  Did close to 50 postcards for Virginia’s Congressional House Representatives yesterday. I want a Democratic Trifecta!

  57. 57.

    WaterGirl

    Thanks, everybody!

    When we hit $30,000, between our $30k for Phase I and $30k for Phase II and $10k for safety & security and the $60,000 in external matches, NC Black Alliance will have $130,000 to fuel their efforts to expand beyond the HBCUs they were already engaging in NC.

    I think that’s a big Joe Biden deal, and everyone who will have donated should feel pretty awesome about that.

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    VFX Lurker

    Missed the angel match, but I still put in $100.

    Thank you for helping to focus our fundraising efforts where they will do the most good.

  72. 72.

    Armadillo

    Just put in $500.  Many thanks to WaterGirl for organizing this and other fundraising efforts.

    LFG!

  74. 74.

    WaterGirl

    Thanks, everyone!

    Just got off a zoom call with the folks we will be supporting once we meet our goals for NC Black Alliance!

    It’s another new group this year, and I’ll put up a post about them next week, and we’ll try to have a zoom with them the week after.

    They are looking for a DOUBLE external match for us. :-)  Fingers crossed.

    *My mom always said people can’t say ‘yes’ unless you ask!

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