Equitable Dinners: Lift Every Voice (Virtual)

You're invited to join Equitable Dinners on Aug. 16 for a frank talk about race equity and housing, especially during a pandemic crisis. Enjoy a short play written by Dana Stringer, followed by intimate conversations in small groups.

Equitable Dinners: Lift Every Voice is a free, live, monthly conversation series featuring art, experts, and an opportunity to connect with your neighbors locally and around the world to talk about race and equity. 

Join us one Sunday a month from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm through September 2020, we will hear from a new expert, watch a 10-minute play written for the event, and join together in conversation. 

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Needed: Facilitators and Virtual Hosts

Facilitators help guide the conversation and virtual hosts call each person that has registered to welcome them to the movement. We will train both facilitators and hosts. Please consider volunteering!

Help students with their Scholarship Research Process

The Scholarship Academy (TSA), is a nonprofit founded by a recipient of over $200,000 in scholarships, teaches low- income and first-generation high school students how to create realistic college funding strategies.

Through in-school curriculum modules, financial aid counselor trainings, and access to an innovative scholarship planning platform, The Virtual Scholarship Center, we connect students to local/state-based scholarship resources that enable them to pursue debt-free degrees.

How it Works

1. Students sign up for virtual office hours via their virtual scholarship center account

2. Based on availability and interest, volunteers (you) will help students:

   • Understand their Financial Award Letter

   • Identify additional private aid

   • Re-negotiate their financial aid packages

   • Edit scholarship essays

Use Your Skills to Support Star-C

Please join Star-C as we continue to keep our kids educationally engaged. STAR-C’s mission is to improve the quality of life for individuals in affordable housing communities and stabilize local schools by stabilizing rents and providing academic support and other wraparound services.

We would love volunteers who can help us with a project that includes virtual activities for our kids. This will help STAR-C students by providing necessary academic support, engaging content, and safe activities for students to complete independently or with their families while they are unable to physically attend the STAR-C After School Program where they would have normally had this type of engagement. 

Volunteers can provide the following virtual videos: 

• Simple Yoga demonstrations

• Simple Meditation demonstrations

• Children Exercises

• Reading Books aloud (reading different chapters each day/weekly series)

• Cooking demo (healthy snacks)

• Arts and craft videos (step by step instructions)

• Trivia

• Family games (instruction on how to play different games that are family related)

• Gardening videos

Please send your videos and contact information to Keya Oates@keyaoates@tristarinvest.com. You can also reach me at 404-668-3949.

Send a Thoughtful Note to InCommunity

InCommunity provides care and support to those with developmental and intellectual disabilities (IDD). They recently had to close down their day programs due to COVID-19. The day programs were a consistent part of their individuals’ routine where they saw their friends, interacted with the community & arts, and practiced daily living skills. With “shelter in place” and a shift in routine, it is an adjustment for all.

Those in their programs and in our residential group homes still need care and support from us. Their InCommunity members would love to hear from you during this challenging time! Help spread the love. Send a thoughtful note to those who are still working hard to support individuals in their homes and to those who are being cared for who long for a sense of normalcy. Taking a moment to say thank you or sending a note to say we appreciate you can go a long way!

How it Works

1. Grab a card, postcard or piece of paper for the letter - don't forget an envelope!

2. Write your letter or letters, there's no limit to how many you can do!

3. Take a video or picture of your letter encouraging others to join and share on social media using tagging @incommunityga

4. Mail your letter!

Mail Your Letters

• InCommunity

  3301 BUCKEYE RD, SUITE 700

  ATLANTA, GA 30341

  ATTN: Daniel David

Letter Writing Tips

• Start with a salutation, such as "Dear friend” or “Greetings”

• Share a personal message with an individual in our home: “You are not alone. We are in this together” or “Hang in there. We hope you are safe and healthy.”

• Please avoid glitter or additional items in the envelope.

• Please mail all letters to address provided above.

• Purchase and print stamps from home or have them delivered from the US Postal Service.

Help the Visually Impaired with Be My Eyes

Be My Eyes is a free mobile app with one main goal: to make the world more accessible for blind and low-vision people. The app connects blind and low-vision individuals with sighted volunteers and companies from all over the world through a live video call.

How it Works

1. Someone who is visually impaired and in need of assistance will open the open and make their request. 

2. Volunteers will get a notification on their phone with details about the request and the support needed.

3. Volunteers can respond to the request with a video call (think Skype or Facetime) and solve the problem in real-time.

Translate with Tarjimly

The Tarjimly mobile app allows the world’s 3 billion multilingual speakers to remotely volunteer their language skills as translators and interpreters for the 65 million displaced people. Today, it is the most accessible translator service in the world.

How it Works

1. A refugee or someone who needs a translator or interpreter uses the Tarjimly app to make their request for assistance in the language needed. 

2. Volunteers will get a notification on their phone if their languages match, with details about the request and the support needed.

3. Volunteers can respond to the request with a live chat session where they can send text, voice notes, documents, or even get on a live phone call.

#FlattenTheCurve and Download How We Feel

How We Feel lets you self-report your age, sex, ZIP code, and any health symptoms you experience. It only takes 30 seconds!

Aggregate data is securely shared with select scientists, doctors and public health professionals who are actively working to stop the spread of COVID-19. The app doesn't ask you to sign in or share your name, phone number or email address.

The first time you download the app and donate your data with a check-in, we'll donate a meal to people in need through Feeding America—up to 10 million meals.

How can I get involved?

‍Apply to be a scientific collaborator
‍collaboration@howwefeel.org

Volunteer or join
‍volunteer@howwefeel.org