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Quinn Emmett
May 28, 2025

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Happy Wednesday, Shit Givers.

In a stunning turn of events, I survived my ocean swim (try not to be too disappointed). It’s back to work this week, and we’ve got an awesome inside look at everything going on in the app over the past week.

UPDATE: We listened to you and have invested significant resources over the past few weeks to grow our actions outside the US.

It’ll be a while before we get to real parity, but in the next couple weeks 30% of our total actions should fit the bill (we’ve even got a few worthy orgs below! 👇)

Let’s go.

— Quinn

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  • 🇿🇦 Learn: Live in South Africa, or know some young human there looking for meaningful work? Harambee works to enable a growing economy and society powered by the potential of young people by connecting millions of young adults to jobs with their employer partners. Find a job or become a partner today. 👉 (go)

  • 🇮🇳 Donate: Our friends at Hand in Hand India fight poverty using a multi-sector, integrated approach by tackling social, economic, and environmental factors contributing to poverty. Help them reach their goal of creating 10 million jobs for women all over the world. 👉 (go)

  • 🇮🇳 Donate or Get Funded: The GROW Fund aims to build the capabilities, resilience, and future readiness of grassroots organizations in India by helping them sustain their operations by covering critical costs, and build long-term sustainability. 👉 (go)

  • 🇭🇳 Donate: Grace Honduras rescues children from hazardous labor and provides schooling, nutrition, and family support. Let’s go. 👉 (go)

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  • 🏥 Be Heard: Senate Republicans are voting on devastating cuts to SNAP, Medicaid and more, all to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy. Call your senators to say hell no (and a huge thanks to everyone who’s called so far). 👉 (go)

  • ☔️ Learn: Holy shit — you cats love some rain gardens, huh? Check out the NOAA’s guide to building your own (or lobbying your locality for them) right here 👉 (go)

  • 💵 Invest: LOVE to see everyone moving their money away from banks that thrive on fossil fuels. Figure out where your bank rates with bank.green. 👉 (go)

  • 👷‍♀️ Volunteer: Everyone has a skill they can contribute and mine is OBVIOUSLY not engineering, so it’s delightful that for some of you it is — check out Engineers Without Borders today 👉 (go)

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  • 💼 Learn: On one hand, the on-going purge of scientists, support, caregivers, and other civil servants is a nightmare that’ll set us back decades. On the other, we’re happy to provide a way to find meaningful work for those who want it. 👉 (go)

  • 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Volunteer: Everyone wants to show up for LGBTQIA+ rights — and it’s is a search I’d like us to fill out a bit 👉 (go) Send your recommendations for us to review!

  • 💵 Invest: Money for climate solutions is drying up quickly and OBVIOUSLY I don’t need to tell you how not-ideal that is. Find out how you can contribute 👉 (go)

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  • Teach: Whether you’re a teacher, student, administrator, or parent, you can spend the summer lobbying your schools and school board to check out our teaching resources! 👉 (go)

It’s June next week? Lord. Best wishes/warmest regards to all of my dreams and visions.

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Thank you as always for giving a shit.

— Quinn

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