NAICOB Regeneration Crowdfunding Challenge: "Two for Tuesday"

Note: This diary is in support of an ongoing crowdfunding effort by the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB). The funding will play a crucial role in helping regenerate the building they've occupied for the last 40 years. Please help in any way you can - ideally, by Rec'ing and sharing as widely as you can, and if time and finances allow, with whatever you can provide to help with the fundraising effort. Times are tight for many of us - simply sharing news of this effort is more than appreciated. Please read on, and thank you.

Everything in life presents challenges: sometimes, those challenges are presented in a way to encourage us to test ourselves, to push our limits or to motivate us toward achieving something we might otherwise not have noticed. Sometimes these challenges present us with opportunities to help others, in such a way that we are paying forward any help or opportunities that we may have received. And sometimes, the challenge is simply reach out and help others, to make the world a better place - one person, one action, one challenge at a time.

Yes, there are other types of challenges in life - those which face us that we did not ask for, which hold us back unless or until we can overcome them, and that threaten the path we set for ourselves. Those are the types of challenges which, when faced with them, we could use the help of others - sometimes directly, but many times simply through the indirect acknowledgement and recognition of the issues facing us, and encouragement as we work through them.

Today, I'm going to challenge you to do something to help the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB), and I'm going to meet that challenge myself, in a way that you too can benefit from.

First, a bit about NAICOB: a non-profit organization located in Jamaica Plain (essentially, Boston), the North American Indian Center has been located in the same building for over 40 years. They assist Native Americans throughout the greater Boston area, and have - like most of us, and many organizations - suffered during the economic downturn and slow recovery process. Their funding has dwindled; they've lost some of the programs they've traditionally offered, and need to "regenerate" their building before they can obtain additional funding.

Here's the video from their fundraising campaign page:

I've written two previous diaries about their ongoing fundraising effort:

1. "We're still here" - for now: NAICOB Fundraiser and
2. Foundations cast in stone and spirit: NAICOB

Many of you know me in one form or another - either as a writer of Woo Tales (stories about family, caregiving, etc. centered on dogs), or of causes; some of you have seen me participating in other fundraisers, like the Okiciyap school supplies drive or the Daily Kos Okiciyap Quilt Auction. And I sometimes write meta, in additional to political diaries. I'm the primary contact for BosKos, and sometimes write diaries that can be instructional/educational or just plain silly.

My "twofer" challenge to you all is this:

1. Rec and share this diary, and
2. Encourage two others to do the same.

That's it. You can - if, and only if, you can definitely afford it - kick in $2 to the NAICOB Regeneration Fund on IndieGoGo, but that's up to you and your financial situation. I'm primarily hoping that we can get the word out to as many people as possible, far and wide, about the fundraising effort - more eyeballs mean more chances for those who can comfortably donate to do so, and that increases the likelihood of NAICOB hitting their goal. They have 44 days left to do it - it's achievable.

And, for encouragement, I'm writing and posting two mini "Woo Tales" beyond the organic orange curlicue.