As Purple gears up for 2020, we need an operating budget of $5000 to carry out our plans. We hope to meet that goal during the month of December–and we are well on our way. Giving Tuesday was a great jump start: we raised a total of $2710 online, from two Facebook fundraisers and other donations, including $1250 in match money offered by generous supporters. A big, heartfelt THANK YOU to every contributor!
Now we just need to finish the job.
Can we count on a push from you to get us to the goal?
- Send a check to Purple, P.O. Box 26213, Lansing MI 48909-6213
- Donate via our Facebook fundraiser.
- Or visit our Donate page to find many other convenient options for contributing, from PayPal through employer matching to bequests.
If you’re here, you probably don’t need to be reminded why you should support us:
We support feminist projects in our community. Currently, Purple is actively soliciting proposals from womyn in the Lansing region (maybe you!) who have projects that may flourish under the shelter of our umbrella. Our mission embraces a wide range of issues: education, culture, health, civil rights…. We are especially interested in fostering initiatives by and for members who are under-represented and under-resourced: womyn of color, young womyn, differently-abled womyn, low-income womyn, and others.
We are also laying the groundwork for a campaign to fund The Lesbian Legacies Endowment: Amazon Cultural/Political Activism in Second Wave Feminism, which will help to support, build and make accessible materials from womyn’s herstory housed in the Michigan State University Libraries Special Collections.
Since the 1970s, Special Collections has compiled extensive lesbian and feminist materials, now enhanced by the archives of both the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival and Goldenrod Music, a national women’s music distributor based in Lansing. We have undertaken to create an endowment to support, build and make accessible these materials, primarily by creating opportunities for researchers–especially our daughters–to come and use the collections for research, activism, and artistic activities.
We need your support, moral and material, creative and financial, in order to carry out this mission. We are enormously grateful for your participation.
