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Art Challenges Passive Culture

“Art challenges passive culture” is a quote by renowned artist Nicolas Bourriaud. It is a quote that struck me many years ago and affirmed my love and study of the arts. It truly embodies an arts nonprofit dear to my heart, Kearny Street Workshop.

Kearny Street Workshop is the oldest multidisciplinary Asian Pacific American arts organization in the United States. KSW was founded on racial, social, and economic injustices dealt by the Asian Pacific American community in the 1970s. This monumental historical precedence carries through in our values for equity, representation, and visibility through the arts today.

Join us tonight at 7 p.m. for our annual end-of-the-year virtual celebration honoring our community artists, allies, and greater community. We honor you. We thank you.

And through our silent auction, bid on your own commissioned portraits like the ones below by gifted artist Nina Asay or the Diving Coloring Book by brilliant design artist Christine Joy Ferrer. The unique art and gifts for yourself or that special someone is plentiful.

It’s a win, win! Attain a masterpiece for your home that I guarantee your guests will gush over. Then subsequently share how you won it at a silent auction fundraiser, which helps to sustain an incomparable arts nonprofit.

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Thanks to you, we did it!

Community, thank you for coming through! It is because of you we surpassed our fundraising goal for five deserving women warriors!

Your donations are in the works. We are assembling each women warrior’s care packages, and they will be delivered to them by no later than early January 2021. These care packages will contain monetary gift cards to help with essential needs and individualized items for their well-being and the well-being of their families. Additionally, your gift for your donation is also in the works and should arrive by early January 2021 too.

We are only as strong as our community and this campaign couldn’t be more indicative. Your encouraging words pierce deeply, especially in 2020.

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“You each are so deserving of this and so much more.” -Diana

“Thank you for sharing your stories and allowing us to give back a little. May our Lord watch over your families with love and protection!” -Jennie

“Sending love and blessings to all of you.” – Chayla

“Thank you for all that you do to make the world a kinder place.” -Laurie

“I love the work you are doing, keep shining.” -Erica

“Wonderful way to honor women!” -Anonymous

“By Queens, For Queens! Love what you’re continuing to do to uplift and inspire womxn.” -Stephanie

“Supporting our most inspiring, fearless, brilliant, and beautiful Queens! -Allyson

“Who run the world?!” – Abigail

“Women of the Resistance” mural by Lucia Gonzalez Ippolito at Balmy Alley in the Mission district of San Francisco. Photo by me.

#UpliftingWomenWarriors

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#UpliftingWomenWarriors needs your support

Photo by Unity in Color.

Mahalo Community,

In the nonprofit world, it is the time of year to appeal for your kind donation. The end of the year is historically the most successful time to fundraise and close the calendar year in black (net revenue positive or debt free). Lamentably, for many nonprofits it is the breaking point whether they will stay open or close indefinitely. Compounded with this reality, Covid-19 has disrupted the fiscal promise for too many.

2020 remains a devastating year of loss. Livelihoods are in disarray, inequities widening, and the former capacity and joy to contribute to an annual giving tradition stifled. After brainstorming what our nonprofit’s end-of-the-year campaign will focus on, it was without a question, to uplift and to pay it forward to those affected. For them, for humanity, we had to. Hence, these individuals and families are the catalyst for our fundraising campaign that just launched, Sol Sisters Solful Giving – Uplifting Women Warriors.

As part of the global movement to give known as Giving Tuesday, I set my heart into authoring and developing this campaign, which honors five deserving women warriors. I am deeply invested in each of them, and their incredible stories of loss and strength will impel you to act too. 

Therefore, join us in #UpliftingWomenWarriors during this unprecedented challenging time and please share this campaign far and wide using the hashtag #UpliftingWomenWarriors.

The women warriors (from left to right, top to bottom); Jennifer, Nikki, Martha, Gloria, Angelica.

Thank you for caring,️
Jenny & your Sol Sisters Community

Photo by Abe Espiritu.

P.S. Did you know that your donation to us (to nonprofits in general) is a tax benefit to you? It is a deduction on your taxes and with the CARES Act it is easier to get a tax deduction for donations made in 2020. Learn more about this benefit via this recent New York Times article. It’s a win, win, win!

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