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Phinal Phirst Phriday Philanthropy
Jun. 3rd, 2022 08:30 pmEagle-eyed followers of this blog will have noticed that I did not do a Phirst Phriday Philanthropy at all for the month of May.Actually, I have decided to wind down the series. That doesn't mean I will stop donating to causes that are dear to my heart. But when I first dreamed up the idea in March of 2020, the plan was always that it would be a limited time offer. And that the pandemic would be a short-term crisis. Some of you may have been as deluded as I was and believed that too.
Thinking that the whole thing would be over by Christmas, if not Easter, I aimed to contribute to a different charity or other cause each time. But after more than two years of first weekly, then monthly donations, it just doesn't make sense to constantly come up with new causes instead of old favourites just because "I gave at the office" or I already made my donation, two years ago!
When I do discover a new charity, cause or pet project, I may indeed highlight it in my blog but it will no longer be a regular feature.
There's one thing that has been uppermost in my mind for the past couple of weeks and that's the Great Derecho of May 21, 2022. We were without power from the time it hit (around 3:45 PM) until some time after 1AM on Monday, May 30. And the aftermath is still very evident around here. In fact, we had a further power outage this evening which lasted about an hour and a half. Well, we were warned that the electrical grid remains fragile, and several hundred customers in our area have still not regained power since May 21.
So this month, my charitable giving will be focused around helping those people, animals and natural resources that were and remain far worse off than we are.
I'll write more about our own experience in a future blog post.
Thinking that the whole thing would be over by Christmas, if not Easter, I aimed to contribute to a different charity or other cause each time. But after more than two years of first weekly, then monthly donations, it just doesn't make sense to constantly come up with new causes instead of old favourites just because "I gave at the office" or I already made my donation, two years ago!
When I do discover a new charity, cause or pet project, I may indeed highlight it in my blog but it will no longer be a regular feature.
There's one thing that has been uppermost in my mind for the past couple of weeks and that's the Great Derecho of May 21, 2022. We were without power from the time it hit (around 3:45 PM) until some time after 1AM on Monday, May 30. And the aftermath is still very evident around here. In fact, we had a further power outage this evening which lasted about an hour and a half. Well, we were warned that the electrical grid remains fragile, and several hundred customers in our area have still not regained power since May 21.
So this month, my charitable giving will be focused around helping those people, animals and natural resources that were and remain far worse off than we are.
I'll write more about our own experience in a future blog post.
