Count Your Blessings – And Share Them
This post was originally published on the Humanist Community Project blog.
Okay dudes. The election was exciting, but let’s remember we’ve got to do a lot more than vote to be the change we want to see. We’re in the middle of a huge fundraising push for the biggest service project I’ve EVER worked on. The Humanist Community at Harvard, the Harvard Chaplains, and the Boston Interfaith Campus Coalition are pulling out all the stops to pull together $10,000 and hundreds of volunteers to package 40,000 meals for hungry children in Massachusetts. So, as usual, I’ve got some jobs for all of you friendly folks!
1) Donate your $$$. If you’ll be enjoying a hot meal on Thanksgiving in a couple of weeks, then you can afford to help others do the same. Just a $10 donation feeds 40 children! Even better, a $100 donation feeds 400 children! And on and on! Gifts of all sizes are important and appreciated. Please think about your own blessings and be generous.
2) Donate your time. If you’ll be in the Boston area on November 18 – which I KNOW a bunch of Harvardians and Yalies will be! – stop by for as long as you like! We’ll be working from 12-6, and whether you can come for 10 minutes or 4 hours, your help is needed. What better way to recover from the Game than hanging out with friends and helping your neighbors?
Thank you for all that you do and all that I know you will do to help make this dream a reality!
P.S. If you come help out on Sunday, you might get to meet my Learning Lab students! We talked about food systems at our last class, and did some thinking about where our food comes from, what’s in it, who makes it, where food goes and doesn’t go, who doesn’t have access to good food and why, and what we can do to create a more just and healthy food system. The next step is for my students to put their values into action and take a concrete step toward improving our food system by participating in our service project this weekend. The Learning Lab is still enrolling for Winter/Spring 2013, so email clink@harvardhumanist.org for more information or to sign up!
Chelsea Link recently graduated from Harvard University, where she studied History & Science with a focus in the history of medicine. She is the founder and intermittent author of Blogging Biblically, and has contributed to blogs such as the Interfaith Youth Core and Social Action Massachusetts. She has also left a trail of abandoned blog detritus in her wake, ranging from Sewage & Syphilis to The Unelectables. While at school, she served as both the Vice President of Outreach of the Harvard Secular Society and the President of the Harvard College Interfaith Council. Now that she’s graduated, she is a full-time Adult Impersonator, complete with an apartment (in the People’s Republic of Cambridge, Massachusetts) and a job (as the Campus Organizing Fellow at the Humanist Community at Harvard). She tends to kill the mood at parties by unnecessarily reciting Shakespeare.
