Ladies? Did you buy a SmartTrip card on Saturday, and you didn’t use it?

Martha’s Table could use it.

Sickened and saddened by the events in Aleppo?

Here are some charities (and here are some more) that are doing decent work there. I have not vetted them any more than you can, yourself. But Jaysus.

Upset by the nasty water in Flint?

Here’s where you can donate to help the children of that community. And thanks, Cynical, for the link.

Dear Syrian refugees: Come to CT.

The New York Times carried a story today about a Syrian family whose members waited three years to be accepted into the U.S. The story includes the work of Chris George, and his wonderful Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services in New Haven, which has done incredible work getting new Americans settled. The family, whose members waited in …

Those Katmandu photos are heartbreaking

If you’ve been keeping up with the devastation wrought by the massive earthquake in Nepal, you may be feeling a little helpless. So yesterday, the New York Times ran a box of organizations soliciting donations to aid the Nepalese in their grief. Here’s a link to that. I almost always choose Doctors Without Borders, as …

If “religious” people can raise money for a pizza joint…

…what might we all do for runaway/homeless youth? Check this out. And then please consider donating to the True Colors Fund. For more on people donating to a pizza joint (Memories Pizza of Walkerton, Indiana) that won’t (knowingly) cater any wedding for the LGBTQ community — and good Christ, who orders pizza at a wedding, …

Let’s send Hartford’s The Real Ambassadors to the Olympics

CREC’s Greater Hartford’s Academy of the Art‘s The Real Ambassadors (named after jazz great and Connecticut resident Dave Brubeck‘s musical) have been invited to perform at the Olympics Village in London. They are the only high school jazz choir who’ve been invited, and they need donations to go. The award-winning band,  led by  Dianne Mower, …