Help out our local kids
Help out our local kids!
Turns out that our local charity www.familygivingtree.org is short of school supplies for needy kids. About 2ooo backpacks short! For the full story, click here. I am putting my money where my mouth is and donating enough to buy 2 backpacks for the kids. How about you?
—MoGo
New: www.SupportFirstResponders.com is up!
Hey there, got my new website www.SupportFirstResponders.com up and running.
When I lived in Santa Cruz I had the honor of training to work at their 911 center there. I passed the background check, the training and things were going swimmingly but it turns out a visual person shouldn’t do an auditory job. I was too slow. Slow by seconds, which in another job would be fine, but too slow when people are in trouble (not fine).
So I didn’t make it. I was sad at the time but happy that I got to meet so many really neat people. There were hardworking, honorable men and women there at the center as well as all the firefighters, police officers and paramedics that stopped by. I felt grateful that I got to meet them. While I was there there was also a controversy in Santa Cruz about people not wanting to pay a little extra on their phone bills to make sure 911 was fully funded.
To me that was the ultimate in stupidity. We all want 911 to be answered when we call! That is a no-brainer.
So I thought about what if anything I could do to help. I am an artist, and clearly not cut out for actual call taking. (Though I did get some great stories out of it.) So I came up with this shirt design.
And I will give 60% 100% of the profit from these shirts to my local first responders-San Jose.
(I still have some details to work out about to whom to give the money exactly. I don’t want to mug firefighters in reverse… knock em down and throw money at them. 
but I will put it aside until I can get that figured out. I will post the details of who will get the money as soon as I figure it out. Since I JUST launched this and have no money yet, I figure I have a little time.
—MoGo (Maureen on the Go)
UPDATE: I thought about it some more and I am gonna DONATE 100% of the profits.
