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Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Spend Donate Invest. Today's question is, how do you politely decline when someone asks you to donate to a fundraiser and you don’t… want… to? Please share this episode with someone who you think might enjoy a short listen. Introduce them to something new. That’s how podcasts tend to survive and grow. Word of mouth. Thanks so much and let’s talk again soon. Support...

Send us Fan Mail Links from today's episode: https://decolonizingwealth.com/ https://www.givingtuesday.org/   https://native-land.ca/   https://www.ala.org/aboutala/indigenous-tribes-washington-dc   https://www.firstnations.org/   https://narf.org/   https://www.naahillahee.org/ https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/ Support the show

Send us Fan Mail This week we're exploring the topic of decolonizing our Thanksgiving plates. Links from today's discussion: Chef Sean Sherman Interview and Projects https://www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1131051237/the-sioux-chef-sean-sherman https://owamni.com/ https://sioux-chef.com/ Decolonizing Thanksgiving and Reviving Indigenous Relationship To Food by https://ndncollective.org/decolonizi...

Send us Fan Mail One question I’ve received quite a bit is on the topic of trying to decide on a focus for our values when it comes to our money. There are so many problems we could tackle, how can we pick a issue or a small number of issue areas to focus on? Otherwise you will find yourself overwhelmed at trying to do everything all at once- climate change, racial equity, gender equality, homeles...

Send us Fan Mail Here's today's letter: My employer doesn't offer a socially responsible 401k, what should I do? Here's a summary of today's discussion: 1. Buddy up, get other employees into the effort. They probably won’t add options unless you have a ton of influence at your company, but if they see that there’s a group of people that want this, you’ll have more weight....

Send us Fan Mail Here's today's letter: I'm a gentrifier and I feel guilty about it all the time. Is there a way to spend my money in the neighborhood in a socially responsible way? Link from today's discussion: https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/types-of-gentrifiers-you-see-in-your-neighborhood Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Today's letter is about giving up brands with values that are different than our own! Here's the letter: I can't give up the hate nachos from the restaurant in my neighborhood but I'm trying to vote with my dollars. What can I do? I'm ashamed and hiding this behavior from my friends. Tune in for today's discussion! Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Today's letter is about where to find charities and what to ask. Here's the letter: How should I research a charity to decide if I want to give to them? Where do I look and what questions should I be asking myself? Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In celebration of the podcast's one year anniversary, some of the most popular episodes will be rebroadcast. In the meantime, if you have a question you've been pondering, a question about how to better align your money and the type of world you'd like to help build, please send it in for a future episode! Thanks! GG Here’s today's letter: How do people decide...

Send us Fan Mail Here’s this week’s letter: I recently heard a talk by someone who was saying that shareholders can influence what a company does. But my question is, do I need to be a big time player with lots of stocks to be able to have any influence? The speaker gave the example of Engine 1, and said they had a tiny amount of stocks in Exxon but I guess I just want to hear another opinion abou...

Send us Fan Mail Here’s this week’s letter: In the past, I’ve donated money whenever I’m asked. I don’t really have much of a strategy, someone asks, I think about whether it sounds right to me, or my current budget and then I give what I can at that time. But I’m wondering if there’s a way to get a little more organized around my giving. I heard an episode that gave some guidelines on how to figu...

Send us Fan Mail Here’s this week’s letter: I just discovered the show recently and have been learning a lot, especially as I think about stepping up my investing game. My issue is that I’m busy. I work at a startup and I just don’t know when I’ll have time to really sit and think through every stock in my portfolio and make sure that they are socially just companies and that I’m setting myself up...

Send us Fan Mail Here’s this week’s letter: I’m writing to ask what you think I should do with a windfall? I completely did not expect to be compensated for some work that I did to help out a friend. It’s not a life changing amount of money, but it’s enough to go on a nice vacation for example. A little context- my finances are in good shape. I have my emergency savings where I want them. I am max...

Send us Fan Mail Here’s this week’s letter: I was just watching a video of billionaire Robert Smith giving a commencement speech at Morehouse and then surprising the graduates at the end by announcing that he is paying off their student loans. I watched the video three times, the looks on those students’ faces was something I’ll never forget. They looked so surprised and then elated and it just re...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Spend Donate Invest. This is a podcast where you’ll find short episodes about how we might use our money in ways that line up with our personal values and the type of world you’d like to help create. Maybe your thing is climate change. Maybe it’s poverty. Maybe it’s the gender pay gap. Maybe it’s reproductive freedom. You can choose your own values, the idea here is tha...

Send us Fan Mail Here’s this week’s letter: I’ve been taking a more active role in managing my money and my family’s money and I want to look for ways for us to all get on the same page. My partner, I think, just wants to make as much money as possible. For me, it’s more than just growing our money, I also care a lot about how we make the money and how we show up in the world. Our kid, honestly, I...

Send us Fan Mail Here’s this week’s letter: When I was growing up, I knew a few friend’s dads that had guns, but they were old hunting rifles that had been passed down. This was out in the country, so hunting deer was just what some of them did for fun. I don’t know when it happened but it seems like our country has been flooded with guns meant to harm people. I’m really concerned about this. I’ve...

Send us Fan Mail Here’s this week’s letter: Growing up my experience with giving was giving to my church. My parents would tithe to the church and every week they would give us kids each one dollar to put in the collection plate. To be honest, by the time I was a teenager, I would pocket the money sometimes. I felt like my parents were chumps, and blindly giving instead of really analyzing what wa...

Send us Fan Mail Here’s this week’s letter: I’m wondering how I can be an ally at work. I heard that there’s a new pay transparency law coming into play, in the past what always made me uncomfortable was thinking about the nondisclosure form I had signed promising that I wouldn’t share my salary with anyone, but over the past few years as I’ve become educated about pay discrepancies particularly f...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Spend Donate Invest. We vote, we protest, but what about our money? Is there a way we can line up our personal values and our money? This is what I’m exploring on this show.  Thank you so much for all of your emails and DMs with all of the questions you’re wondering about.  Here’s this week’s letter: I got the day off for Juneteenth and I’m trying to think about wa...

Send us Fan Mail Here’s this week’s letter: Should I wait until I am financially well off before I give? No. Please don’t wait until you are “rich” before you take your giving seriously. We’ve talked about this before on Episode 24, you might never feel rich. In my observation, nobody hoards money more than a wealthy person. Give what you can when you can. Especially because people need help now....

Send us Fan Mail Here’s this week’s letter: Is there any way I can contribute towards helping parents who are facing the baby formula shortage? Links from today's discussion https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/us/abbott-baby-formula-sturgis-regulation.html https://greaterdcdiaperbank.org/the-monthly/ Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Here’s this week’s letter: Watching the news lately has felt like watching the Handmaid’s Tale. I have to admit I wasn’t paying attention to the gradual erosion of how secure I thought the right to abortion was in the US. It felt like I woke up one day and all of my group chats were talking about the leaked document from the Supreme Court. I had no idea there was a real threat to...

Send us Fan Mail Here’s today’s letter I’ve heard that crypto is bad for the environment, but I have to be honest, I don’t see how. And I’d like to understand a little about this as I’m thinking about getting into investing while the market is down. Links from today's show: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/technology/bitcoin-miners-environment-crypto.html?searchResultPosition=3 https://www....

Send us Fan Mail Here’s today’s letter I mentioned to my brother that I started trying to buy certain brands and shop at certain stores because I’m worried about climate change and he said that all of that marketing is greenwashing. I didn’t want to give him the smug feeling of knowing I have no idea what he’s talking about. So, I’ll ask you, what is greenwashing? Links from today's show: htt...