RAFFLE HAS ENDED! But feel free to continue donating to Hospitality House via their website www.hospitalityhouse.org.

Thank you for your help! Together we raised $1,065 to support their 6 community programs!

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Support an incredible organization— Hospitality House (www.hospitalityhouse.org) and be entered to win your choice of necklace pictured. Unlimited entries !!

*By participating you agree to join Hospitality House's mailing list!!*

Sterling silver Soleil pendant w/pink tourmaline stone, yellow bronze Soleil pendant w/ citrine stone, or Soleil pendant without stone— with a sterling silver 2mm ball chain, length of choice.

You can get your raffle entries here, or you can get them by donating directly at their website directly ( https://www.hospitalityhouse.org/donate.html ) just make sure to let me know via email or IG DM if you donate thru their website.

Again, by participating you agree to join hospitality house's mailing list (don't worry, it's not a lot)!!

Select "local pick up"to bypass the shipping fee at check out.

Thank you!

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Why?
Because, like many of you, I am feeling absolutely gutted w/ grief, heartbreak, and disgust — election results, HORRIFIC cabinet picks, icky proposition outcomes (c’mon California, prop 6 to ban slavery failed. wtf?), the seemingly never ending genocide in Palestine, the recent Supreme Court Ruling in City of Grants Pass, OR v. Johnson where local governments can enact laws criminalizing sleeping in public spaces, whether or not shelter is available…

So I remind myself, there are so many ways to channel these feelings into something meaningful and hopefully impactful— volunteering, organizing, donating, mutual aid, making art, self-care, voting with our dollars, etc. etc.

Today it will look like another raffle for Hospitality House. Because HH has my heart, and because HH is the antithesis of everything the incoming administration represents.

In the words of Hospitality House’s Executive Director Joe Wilson, “We must remind ourselves that human service organizations largely came into being to fill gaps and structural inequities. These gaps have widened into chasms over time because of racial, ethnic and gender inequities, America’s disappearing safety net, and systemic retreat from our social contract….Black and Brown San Franciscans continue to be overrepresented in the homeless population, overrepresented in health disparities, overrepresented in the criminal justice system, overrepresented in youth homelessness. One out of every 24 students in SFUSD is homeless - in every public classroom in the City, at least one child is homeless. Community-based organizations did not create these inequities and societal realities. Our collective mission is to help America be what it claims to be – starting here, in the City of St. Francis.”