#FirstOfTheMonth Campaign Update
Thanks to an outpouring of support from hundreds of donors and our community’s
rapid mobilization, we surpassed our initial fundraising goal and increased
the number of families we've helped to 187!
Because the need is so great, we're not stopping. Our new goal is
$2,000,000
300 new donors
stabilizing at least total 300 families for 3 months
It's all for hardworking families who have been laid off due to COVID from their jobs as nannies, housekeepers, gardeners, restaurant workers, healthcare works, and other service workers. They're people in our network who want nothing more than to stay healthy and safe and get back to work as soon as possible.
Now is the time to pull together and build our Village of All Together.
Kafenia has teamed up with awesome local non-profits
Live in Peace and Dreamers Roadmap to help our neighbors.
Please join us. Go to Live in Peace and
donate generously to the COVID Emergency Fund.
And now, your donation will be doubled! An anonymous donor will match all individual donations up to $1000 between now and the end of May.
If you'd like to learn more about our fabulous campaign team, and how you can help, send email to Barbara Weinstein (barbaraweinstein2@gmail.com).
For press inquiries, please contact Valerie Demicheva (vdemicheva@gmail.com).
Now is the time to pull together and build our Village of All Together.
Kafenia has teamed up with awesome local non-profits
Live in Peace and Dreamers Roadmap to help our neighbors.
Please join us. Go to Live in Peace and
donate generously to the COVID Emergency Fund.
And now, your donation will be doubled! An anonymous donor will match all individual donations up to $1000 between now and the end of May.
If you'd like to learn more about our fabulous campaign team, and how you can help, send email to Barbara Weinstein (barbaraweinstein2@gmail.com).
For press inquiries, please contact Valerie Demicheva (vdemicheva@gmail.com).
Thank you on behalf of our 'Village of All Together', which we need now more than ever before.
Kafenia offers welcome, refuge, and real human connection in an ever more virtual world. Our community is inspired by diverse voices from village cultures who understand the value of relationship. We weave ourselves into a Village of all Together, listening and sharing our voices, stories, cultures, visions, callings, through circles and creative community offerings. In the process, we build a more humane, interconnected Silicon Valley & a more peaceful, inclusive world.
Our civic engagement guide has practical things you can do to help. And check out this PA Weekly column by the Kafenia COVID team.
Finally, join our virtual gatherings for heart-centered connection and support.
Our civic engagement guide has practical things you can do to help. And check out this PA Weekly column by the Kafenia COVID team.
Finally, join our virtual gatherings for heart-centered connection and support.
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About The Kafenia:
Normally (except during COVID!) we are a physical place for our global humanity
- deep connection, friendship, and food in Silicon Valley.
Status:
We've gone virtual! We're continuing to host weekly gatherings to bring people together and support each other during the COVID crisis. And our COVID team is connecting people who want to help out with those in need. We're focusing especially on East Palo Alto, where the need is great and resources are limited.
Who are we?
The Kafenia Peace Collective is growing a community of "bridge builders" with roots around the world who stand for a Silicon Valley & world where everyone is included and thrives. We call this a "Village of All Together." (Inspired by this.)
We do this by creating a village-spirited cross-cultural deeply connective HOME BASE (right now, temporary, but eventually permanent) from which we can grow this spirit, share our cultures, prototype new inclusive paradigms and wreak some loving creative havoc in SV. You are welcome!
What is the Kafenia?
The Kafenia is a reimagining of the traditional Greek kafenio where men shared food, friendship and social and political life together. My grandfather had a kafenio at 16th and Folsom in San Francisco in the 1930s to keep the village alive in a bustling metropolis - but it was only for men. Now, as his granddaughter, Mary Jane, whose father was a WW2 refugee and who has done peacebuilding around the world, I am reimagining it as a multicultural village in Silicon Valley- with women front and center. (see World Pulse story.)
Normally (except during COVID!) we are a physical place for our global humanity
- deep connection, friendship, and food in Silicon Valley.
Status:
We've gone virtual! We're continuing to host weekly gatherings to bring people together and support each other during the COVID crisis. And our COVID team is connecting people who want to help out with those in need. We're focusing especially on East Palo Alto, where the need is great and resources are limited.
Who are we?
The Kafenia Peace Collective is growing a community of "bridge builders" with roots around the world who stand for a Silicon Valley & world where everyone is included and thrives. We call this a "Village of All Together." (Inspired by this.)
We do this by creating a village-spirited cross-cultural deeply connective HOME BASE (right now, temporary, but eventually permanent) from which we can grow this spirit, share our cultures, prototype new inclusive paradigms and wreak some loving creative havoc in SV. You are welcome!
What is the Kafenia?
The Kafenia is a reimagining of the traditional Greek kafenio where men shared food, friendship and social and political life together. My grandfather had a kafenio at 16th and Folsom in San Francisco in the 1930s to keep the village alive in a bustling metropolis - but it was only for men. Now, as his granddaughter, Mary Jane, whose father was a WW2 refugee and who has done peacebuilding around the world, I am reimagining it as a multicultural village in Silicon Valley- with women front and center. (see World Pulse story.)