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• Volunteer or Donate: You’ve heard of Doctors Without Borders, here’s another thing I don’t qualify for: Engineers Without Borders! Leverage your engineering skills to build a healthier, more just, and cleaner world for all. (go)
  

• Volunteer or Donate: Make a difference in the everyday lives of Cuban children and families with First-Hand Aid — feed seniors, give medication to sick kids, and provide supplies to families in need. (go)
  

• Learn: Read (peer-reviewed!) research from Frontiers, the most-cited marine and freshwater biology journal working today. Help advance our understanding of marine ecosystems and inform conservation policies. (go)

• Be Heard: Essential programs like SNAP, Medicare, and Medicaid are on the line. If you’d prefer for government spending go towards feeding the hungry and providing medical care instead of financing tax cuts for billionaires, keep calling your Senators (go)
  

• Invest: You can control what industries your money is financing by finding a bank that doesn’t use your capital to finance fossil fuel companies. Move your money to a sustainable bank using bank.green (go)
  

• Volunteer: Join the movement to demand lasting solutions to the plastic pollution crisis with Break Free From Plastic (go)
  

• Volunteer: African Impact’s conservation and public health projects have measurable impacts and are developed in collaboration with local communities, so you can be sure that you’re volunteering responsibly (go)

• Learn about meaningful careers. No matter your background or skillset, you have something to contribute towards making the world a better place, whether that means working in climate, water, tech, public health, whatever. These resources make it easy (go)
  

• Anything and everything for affordable housing. Housing is the key to everything. Take part in local housing solutions, whether that’s donating to your local shelters or mobilizing to advocate for affordable housing in your community (go)
  

• Invest in climate solutions. Make your capital work for good instead of financing destruction. Fun! (go)
  

• Volunteer for conservation. There’s no way around it — protecting nature is a win win win win. Find projects fighting to conserve nature for generations to come (go)

• Learn: Build a rain garden at home or at work using the University of Connecticut Rain Garden App. It’s an excellent, easy way to keep pollutants from stormwater runoff out of our local streams and lakes. (go)
  

• Donate: Everyone deserves access to quality education. Educate Girls improves those opportunities for girls in India by leveraging community and government resources (go)
  

• Learn: About the policies and actions we all can take to reshape the food system and improve health and environmental outcomes across the board (go)

That’s it — everything’s a lot, you can’t do it all, but you can still do so much.

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Thank you as always for giving a shit.

— Quinn

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