Talent For Life

⚠️ No longer actively maintained: Since launching TFL, it was determined that continued efforts and energy should be dedicated to projects already established. This decision was made to ensure more thoughtful support, contributions, and impact.

Worthwhile projects to look into

Please consider looking into these other resources and opportunities for getting involved:

Designers Available
- Connecting social justice orgs with pro-bono design help
- http://designersavailable.com/
Design for Black Lives
- Pro-bono design service sign up, request, and community
- https://designforblacklives.com/
- https://blmdesignform.netlify.com/
- https://www.instagram.com/designforblacklives/
Anti-racist Resource Guide
- Comprehensive guide for anti-racism
- https://www.victorialynnalexander.com/antiracistresourceguide

Everything below this line is for archival purposes (and to potentially serve as a template/inspiration for anyone who might find this useful). Email and contact information may be outdated. Contact talk@andrewc.io

Why

This resource exists to connect creatives, doers, and all other types of volunteers to the organizations that are fighting for life and justice by cutting out some of the leg work necessary to get the process started.

The goal is to provide actionable direction for channeling creative energy in supporting Black voices in lieu of misdirected, but well intentioned, creativity and energy.

This is how it works

Steps

Inventory your time, decide on what you can offer and prepare yourself by setting realistic goals
Find your state in the list of pages
Sign up to be a volunteer
If contacting to donate services, use the template below

IMPORTANT: If subject line is not available, please include the words "Talent For Life" in your message so that organizers can filter these messages should the response be overwhelming.

Support them with your skills and time
Hope that this branch of the universal wave function improves

Email template

Subject: Talent For Life: <your name>

Hello,

My name is <your name> and I want to offer my support to your organization. 

These are the skills/services I can offer:
- <list each skill> 
- <as a bullet point>

You can learn more about me via these links:
- <list each personal link >
- <e.g. portfolio, twitter, instagram>

Thank you for the work that you do!

Ten minutes here, a couple hours here, we've amassed knowledge and skills working for organizations who, for better or for worse, have been successful. Now let's use those powers in the right direction.

Disclaimer: Doing company work for free sucks (say no to spec). Working for mission driven organizations, on the other hand, is great. However, not everyone can work for free or has the privilege of free time. Find a middle ground if pro-bono or in-person volunteering aren't things that can be offered. Steward boundaries. This is purely a resource and is provided as-is. It is intended to help connect idle hands with hands that need help. So let's operate on a good faith basis.

Contribute

Edit and add to these pages using GitHub via the "Edit this page" link on each page. You'll need a GitHub account. This is the format for each listing:

- Title
    - Website URL
    - Contact email address or URL to contact page
    - Other links for getting involved

Learn more about how to use Markdown: https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/

The other option is simply sending a list of links to contact@talentfor.life and I will add them where they need to go.

Additional information

For organizers

Email filtering

In order to prevent flooding your organization communications, consider adding a filter to your email client(s) that better group Talent For Life emails.

Gmail or Google Apps