I am blown away: we are two days into our Good Giving campaign and we've raised more than $3,500 towards my personal goal of $4,000 and, as I write, 114 people have donated more than $11,000 to KEJC. That's amazing!
I am going to ask you to do two things today:
1) Promote KEJC on social media and,
2) Join us in demanding that Louisville's Mayor, Greg Fischer, extend the CDC's eviction moratorium until March 31st locally.
1: Promote
For each day of the Good Giving Challenge, the Blue Grass Community Foundation has a different contest and today (Thursday), it's all about the raw number of donors: the organization with the most people donating more than $25 from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. wins a $15,000 endowment prize.
Can we do it? I have no idea.
But, here's what I do know: today is the day to ask you to promote KEJC on social media.
What can you say? How about:
The Kentucky Equal Justice Center is raising money to support their work of ensuring Kentuckians are treated fairly in all aspects of their lives: renting a home, buying a car, getting medical care or health insurance, getting unemployment insurance, and so much more. Please join me in donating $25 by 9 pm today at bit.ly/kejc-stay-strong.
Or,
The organizers, social workers, and lawyers at the Kentucky Equal Justice Center work across the state—in Frankfort, in state and federal court systems, with communities, and alongside directly impacted people—to help protect and build systems that ensure every Kentuckian has the food, shelter, medical care, and security they need to thrive. Join me in donating $25 to support this essential work at bit.ly/kejc-stay-strong.
Or, even more selfishly,
In September, the Kentucky Equal Justice Center built an app to help people review, sign, and send to their landlords the Declaration required by the CDC's anti-eviction Order. Since then, more than 12,000 people nationwide have used the app (at HomerenterDeclaration.org) to protect themselves from eviction during our deepening pandemic. This is just one small part of the work this remarkable team does—pandemic or not—to protect Kentucky's most vulnerable people and preserve our social safety net. Please consider donating $25 by 9 p.m. today at bit.ly/kejc-stay-strong.
(Alternatively, you could follow and boost my social media today: I'll be posting some (one cool and some silly) today-only incentives on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.)
If you're tweeting, KEJC's handle is @kyequaljustice.
If you're posting to Instagram, here's an image you can use and the link, once again, is bit.ly/kejc-stay-strong:
Thanks to the folks at Kertis Creative for designing this awesome image for their work on the KNOW Homelessness campaign.
2: Demand
Speaking of staying home, KEJC has drafted a pretty good letter to Mayor Fischer explaining the public health necessity of extending the CDC's eviction moratorium until March 31st in Louisville. We have an online petition with more information. Please sign on at https://bit.ly/Fischer-Petition
Thank you so much for supporting KEJC. I really appreciate it.
Sincerely,
Ben
P.S. If you haven't had a chance to donate yet, today would be a great day to do it. In addition to the dumb swag I've made for everyone and the amazing Zoom backgrounds people who give more than $30 give, people who donate today are entered into some drawings. Like I said, watch my social media...