Our journey

Well ladies (Joce, Amanda, Mel & Linds, I'm addressing this directly to you), we've come a long way from cooking and jacuzzi-ing in the mountains of West Virginia (Black Bear retreat I & II). During our first two get togethers we ate & laughed alot. We had that one brain flurry of "what can we all do together?" which led us to where we are now. This year in San Francisco we decided to start Spotlight. I've been putting a couple bucks a day in the bread box in my kitchen... Mostly money saved from no longer drinking any coffee priced over a dollar. I made my quota for April ($50) and am well on my way to making it for May (although I did have to "borrow" for laundry once while waiting for my paycheck). I'm thinking that this will be easier (financially) when I am no longer a starving grad student. I've been having a lot of fun so far thinking about who I will give the "pot" to when it's "my turn." I've already got a few organizations in mind that I think will be able to "parlay" a spotlight grant into something....(else - not sure what). In the running are a couple of organizations I will call "meta-NGOs" - in other words, NGOs that help other NGOs. I guess I've got a few more months to think about this... (What do you guys think about posting our "giving calendar"?)