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Lachlan Watts-Tobin is fundraising
Pedal Snappers Youth Kinetics
We are Team Pedal Snappers- a subsidiary dream maker non-profit of the Ink People Center for the Arts. We are an organized group, comprised of high schoolers determined to participate in the Kinetics Grand Championship, a local tradition since 1969 founded by Hobart Brown where engineers and artists come together “To have fun so that kids aren’t afraid to grow up”. Participants create unique mechanized sculptures to race across 50 miles of land, sand, water, and mud all over Humboldt County.

We are working to provide opportunities to young, aspiring engineers and artists considering careers in S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) fields. We aim to increase accessibility by providing foundational experiences, opening the door to otherwise unconsidered futures among the youth in our community. In order to race in the Kinetics Grand Championship/Build a Brand New Sculpture/Set Up a Shop, we must raise at least $12,000 . All money we raise will be used to support the involved youth by purchasing safety equipment, buying and replacing old tools, investing in quality materials, creating artwork, and covering all other expenses involved in the race. As well as the aforementioned expenses.

Unfortunately, as a completely youth-run, youth-lead, and youth-organized group, we have limited access to many resources required for participating in the Kinetics Grand Championship. We have done a considerable amount of fundraiser over the course of this first semester, but without community support it will not be enough to complete our goal.

We are seeking support from individuals and our community to aid our cause, and we accept donations in many forms. We are looking for donations of items for auction, monetary donations, and sponsor donations. Sponsor and monetary donations are tax deductible and donors will receive a receipt for their donation. If you as an artisan or your company would like to donate items for our silent auction, contact us through our website and we can arrange pick up of the items or donation.

Thank you for your attention and consideration.

As ever, for the glory!

For more information, visit our webpage Here
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MaryAnn Clark is fundraising
Support Kids in the Hive PlaySpace for Humboldt Kids
Help us keep our *kids in the hive* PlaySpace for Families with Littles alive at the Arcata Plaza Farmers' Market! Our PlaySpaces are open to all and totally free for families.

The Arcata Plaza Farmer’s Market (APFM) takes place on Saturdays in Arcata, CA & is open year-round, rain or shine. As part of the Ink People arts nonprofit, *kids in the hive* (www.youtube.com/kidsinthehive) started a consistent PlaySpace in September 2022. We have established a family-friendly presence there—offering a play area, arts & crafts, activities, and a few small events for families with small children.

Our grant through the county is over at the end of June 2024, so with this GoFundMe funding, we can continue our presence at the APFM, as well as provide Pop-Up PlaySpaces at other Humboldt County farmers’ markets during the summer.

Our PlaySpaces provide fun, social experiences for families, engaging them in community & building up social connections and parental resilience. We also introduce helpful social-emotional learning (SEL) information & tools, to help create more mentally & emotionally resilient kids and caretakers.

At our PlaySpaces we strive to: provide experiences for kids to form relationships with other children through interactive activities; provide a safe and equitable environment; give kids a sense of connectedness through social activities; and create plenty of opportunities for SEL development (playing with peers and with family members, participating in movement activities and breathing/mindfulness activities, etc.). These positive influences can help prevent, interrupt, and mitigate the effects of childhood adversity. Unfortunately Humboldt County has a high prevalence of toxic stress and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).

We believe that this project is making a positive impact on the health and well-being of children and families in Humboldt County, helping to build strong & resilient kids and families. Please help us continue the work!

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Alicia Jimenez is fundraising
Help Humboldt Immigrants Achieve Their American Dream
It would mean so much if you could support a GoFundMe Help Immigrants Achieve Their American Dream organized for English Express by a grateful student.

Help us say I DID IT! Help local immigrants become U.S. citizens! Give to our GoFundMe and help us purchase naturalization exam study materials. From Laos to Mexico, 51 students became U.S. citizens with the help of our program. Help 50 more students pass the naturalization exam and interview!

While strengthening English language skills and receiving access to opportunities, our students build confidence, connections, and self-sufficiency. Student goals also include: GED diplomas, higher education and local business ownership. Please help us to help them! English Express, Bringing English & Community to the People! English Express is a DreamMaker Project of the Ink People Center for the Arts.
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Phyllis Barba is fundraising
Transform Communities: Fund Live Art Walls
Want to join me in making a difference? I'm raising money to benefit the Ink People’s Dream Maker Project “Live Art Walls”, and any donation will help make an impact. Thanks in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much to me.

Live Art Walls is an artist-driven project where artists paint forgotten and neglected places in their communities. Artists supply their own paint, supplies, and time, gifting their talents to their communities. We started in 2018 in Eureka, CA at Halvorsen Park, when one artist was asked to paint a 100 sq ft mural on a 9,000 sq ft wall. That artist worked with the city and the Ink People Center Of Arts to propose that the entire wall be painted. After a few months of work, Live Art Walls was born. Artists have painted at Halvorsen Park a number of times and have extended their reach to the Mission in SF. This September 2024, 45 artists will be painting at Halvorsen Park during Cannifest, and in November we will have our 2nd Youth Mural Festival.

Donations will go towards the purchase of paint for artists, supplies and equipment like telescoping ladders, extension poles, rollers, brushes, paint trays, etc. Donations will also go towards paying artists a stipend for their time and efforts.

More information about Ink People: The Ink People has been changing people's lives since 1979 by connecting the community with resources for cultural development. We encourage people to exercise their humanity, build civic discourse, and engage their creative potential. We are a community-based, grassroots, artist-run, arts and culture organization. We know that young people are the future and are incredibly challenged by today's world, so we try to give them tools to build successful and fulfilling lives.
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Black Humboldt is fundraising
Black Humboldt Operations
What is Black Humboldt ?
Black Humboldt is interested in networking, building relationships and community with the black population residing and visiting Humboldt County, CA. A DreamMaker project of The Ink People.

As the 2% Black population and 28% People of Color (PoC) is growing through employment, education and even vacation, our goal is to represent and support one another by focusing on positive stories from the community, investing in black business, arts and culture and building community awareness of issues affecting Humboldt County residents.

People of Color (PoC): Historically oppressed and marginalized people as a direct result of American Colonialism.

How did this begin?

Black Humboldt began in April 2018 by visionary Dionna Fletcher and co-founded by Mo Desir as a response to Humboldt County's social climate and injustices, the overwhelming whiteness (or buzzphrase "lack of diversity"), and safe black spaces. Dionna wanted to provide a platform for all black and brown bodies who shared similar needs and interests while existing in Humboldt. Black Humboldt seeks to promote existing black businesses, professionals and organizations, support black navigation and to help unify people of color (PoC). It all started as a social media platform to gauge what the 1.5% black population could look like and a future vision for creating events, workshops, and forums. Black Humboldt hopes to provide a space where people can see a positive and beautiful reflection of themselves. In the summer of 2019 Black Humboldt was chosen to be A DreamMaker Project of the Ink People in Eureka CA.

“Our decision to use “Black” instead of “African American” is to ensure the geographical and cultural inclusivity of everyone within the African diaspora. We hope to highlight that African Americans are one of many variations within a larger global community of individuals who have a shared ancestry yet diverse cultures, customs, and languages.”
Find out more on this ideology at https://www.teachforamerica.org/life-in-the-corps/your-tfa-network/black-community-alliances

Mission: To enlighten, empower, and entertain our Black communities and all people of color in Humboldt County through events made FOR US and BY US.

Vision: Focus on positive stories from Black communities and people of color in Humboldt County, invest in Black and PoC businesses, and support Black and PoC arts & culture. Build community awareness of issues affecting Humboldt County residents. Create visible spaces within the community for the acceptance of Black & PoC presence and fostering relations with non-POC communities.

Values: Safety, Culture, Community, Empowerment and Education.

Goals:

1.Cultivate safe, supportive, and inclusive spaces for all people of color in Humboldt County.
2.Create, maintain and sustain economic empowerment for all people of color in Humboldt County.
3. Educate, empower and liberate all people of color in Humboldt County.
4. Educate non-POC groups within Humboldt county on race relations, inclusion, and alliship.
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Black Humboldt is fundraising
Juneteenth Donations
Our 2022 Juneteenth festival will take place June 16th - June 20th in celebration of the Black communities of Humboldt County. The weekend will include a wide array of Black & Brown curated events and projects. We will host our Juneteenth Picnic party on The Arcata Plaza Sunday June 19th 12 - 7pm. This event is an all day, community wide, event celebrating freedom, diversity and community. The event features local POC vendors, workshop facilitators, music and performances. Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States, celebrating that day in history, June 19th 1865.

This holiday is very important and empowering for the Black and Brown communities all over the United States, but especially for Humboldt County, as this community makes up a very small percentage of the population and is often oppressed as a result. Black history is a part of The United States’ history and is important to celebrate as we create safe spaces and inclusion for POC communities in Humboldt County. With the current racially fueled tragedies affecting POC communities it is important that we continue to celebrate and honor Black lives and Black joy.

All proceeds collected on this day will be redistributed to Black owned businesses in Humboldt County.
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Vicki Ozaki is fundraising
Help Build the Eureka Chinatown Monument
The Humboldt Asian and Pacific Islanders in Solidarity (HAPI) and the City of Eureka are proud supporters of the Eureka Chinatown Project (ECP), which seeks to honor the history and culture of the first Chinese people in Humboldt County, CA. The City of Eureka identified the corner of 1st and E Streets in Old Town Eureka where a permanent Chinatown monument could be constructed. Our need is to raise funds to build the monument; the City has offered in-kind assistance and future maintenance. With design, permitting, structural engineering, and construction, the monument will cost approximately $250,000 and HAPI has raised about 67% so far. ALL funds raised through this Gofundme will be directed to the monument.

HAPI, the City of Eureka, and ECP supporters envision a public art installation that honors the residents of the former Eureka Chinatown, remembers the 1885 Chinese expulsion and banishment for 70 years, and celebrates the growth of a vibrant and diverse community.

This monument exemplifies how past actions can be acknowledged and reframed with present day grace, compassion, and beauty in the form of public art, education, and poetry. We seek to give a voice to those silenced and erased by expulsion and tell their story.

Through the ECP, we have deepened our understanding of the familial ties between Chinese people and local tribes. Biracial Chinese and Native American people survived atrocities of Humboldt County’s 19th and 20th centuries. The monument will also celebrate their endurance and the familial connections between the Chinese people and local tribes.

We could break ground as soon as Summer 2024 at the corner of 1st and E Streets. An exciting development is the recent surfacing of 1884 Eureka title maps (one year before the 1885 Chinese expulsion). We now know that the monument site is central to numerous historical Chinese wash houses, laundries, and dwellings.

Thank you for considering a donation, taking a stand against racism, and supporting the Eureka Chinatown Monument. Please share this fundraising link and information.

“Doh jeh!” (thank you in Cantonese).

MONUMENT DESIGN

The monument is designed to be walked through and is accessible by people who are vision or mobility challenged. A visitor may experience learning without talking, feeling emotions that will vary depending on their race and unique individual background.

Elements of the monument include:

• A tile “river” timeline with nine concrete “stone” markers symbolizes the changing populations of Chinese residents in Eureka over time. At the beginning, marker heights rise representing the growing Chinese community from the 1850s to 1880s. Markers then become flat to represent the 1885 forced expulsion and the subsequent 70 years of banishment. Marker heights rise again for Asian people returning to Humboldt from the mid-1950s to present and including all who support and hope for an inclusive community.

• Each stone marker will be inscribed with a Chinese character and corresponding English word that describes the journey of Eureka Chinese resident and include: Hope (for opportunity), Gold Mountain, Chinatown, Expulsion, Resistance, Resilience, Return, Community and Hope (for inclusive future).

• A moon gate arch is a central focal point, symbolizing family completeness, cohesiveness, and return home. In an instance of good fortune and serendipity, one of the biracial Chinese and tribal families is surnamed Moon.

• A ginkgo tree and ginkgo leaves symbolize remembrance, and a magnolia tree and flowers symbolize perseverance, dignity, luck and stability.

• A commissioned poem written by a local Chinese American poet will be engraved onto metal reader-boards and asks, “How do we talk without words?”

• An interpretive panel will provide an overview of Eureka’s Historical Chinatown and links for more information.

Find out more about the Eureka Chinatown Project and monument at:

https://www.hapihumboldt.org/eureka-chinatown-project
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David Wickizer is fundraising
Humboldt Lemonade Day, a DreamMaker project
Want to join me in making a difference? I'm raising money to benefit Humboldt Lemonade Day, a DreamMaker project of the Ink People, and any donation will help make an impact! Thanks in advance for your contribution to this invaluable program that means so much to me and the children in our community.

More information about Ink People: The Ink People has been changing people's lives since 1979 by connecting the community with resources for cultural development. We encourage people to exercise their humanity, build civic discourse, and engage their creative potential. We are a community-based, grassroots, artist-run, arts and culture organization. We know that young people are the future and are incredibly challenged by today's world, so we try to give them tools to build successful and fulfilling lives.

More information about Humboldt Lemonade Day: Humboldt Lemonade Day has been a free event/program staple for the youth within our community since 2011. It is a national event, designed to teach kids to set goals, develop a business plan, establish a budget, seek investors, design and build their own lemonade stand, formulate their own brand recipes, plan and implement an artistic marketing campaign, provide customer service and give back to their community.

Lemonade Day exists to infuse today’s youth with the spirit of enterprise, teaching them basic business and entrepreneurial skills -- one lemonade stand at a time. Participants get to learn how to start, own and operate their very own business. We encourage the kids to “spend a little, save a little and share a little” of what they earn.

This “event” consists of two full months of activities and preparation, including registration events and participant workshops, where the kids get to plan, learn and test. Lemonade Day, which next occurs on Saturday, June 1, 2024, is the culmination of all their hard work.

In the past, the funding needed to pay for this wonderful program was provided by incredible businesses and community supporters. Unfortunately, after submitting at least a half-dozen grant applications and more than fifty requests made of local businesses, we're still drastically short on funds. A substantial amount of money must be raised by December 31, 2023, to pay the required national licensing charter. If we aren't able to pay these fees by this deadline, the future of Humboldt Lemonade Day as we know it will be in jeopardy.

Won’t YOU consider supporting Humboldt Lemonade Day?

Your financial support will ensure that this program can and will continue to operate for our local youth. Humboldt Lemonade Day is a program I believe in so much, I'll be making a donation directly to Ink People in the form of a check, with Humboldt Lemonade Day specified in the memo line. Will you please join me in supporting this worthwhile cause, either through this platform or through other means? We only need 240 individuals or businesses to contribute $25 or more to reach our goal! Any funds raised in excess of our goal will be used to ensure that all young entrepreneurs receive recognition and support during the event, promotional swag for their efforts and participation, and the opportunity for various awards after the event.

(The Humboldt Lemonade Day DreamMaker Project is sponsored by fiscal agent, The Ink People.)
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Brieanne Mirjah is fundraising
Eureka Chinatown Project
The Eureka Chinatown Project is a collaborative effort of community members and Humboldt Asian & Pacific Islanders In Solidarity (HAPI).

Project Purpose: We celebrate the history and culture of the Chinese community in Humboldt, while raising awareness of the local expulsion events and the federal and state exclusionary acts that shaped our society today.
By educating our community, we hope to heal, grow, and move towards a more inclusive future.

Historical Background: The Chinese were integral members in building the West, including Humboldt County, before the national Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Expulsions that started in Humboldt County in 1885 - 1906. The Eureka City Ordinance and overall culture prevented Chinese Americans from returning to Humboldt County until the 1950’s. To this day, we are still feeling that void in our community.

First Stage Projects on/around Old Chinatown Block, located between E/F and 4th/5th Streets in Eureka:
- Commemorative Plaque
- Chinatown Lost & Found Mural in the Alley (back of Savage Henry Comedy Club)
- Informational Panels on the City of Eureka Wayfinding Signs
- Rename the Alley to commemorate the location of Old Chinatown
- Self-guided Walking Tours (Printed & Digital)

Follow the Project progress on Instagram @EurekaChinatownProject

Humboldt Asian & Pacific Islanders in Solidarity (HAPI) is a DreamMaker project of The Ink People
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Tamar Atik is fundraising
Honor The Land Mural Project
***** Exciting development!!! *****

With some extra funding, help, equipment hire, material donations (Thanks to Hensels Ace Hardware in Arcata! ) we are going to paint the WHOLE wall…..!!

So it’s double (actually more the double) the size…. the work load, the materials etc… but it is going to make such a impact.

Here is the design if the whole wall:

A huge Thankyou to our sponsors Coast Credit Union and Redwood Capital Bank for their generous donations outside of the go fund me. To The Humboldt Redwood company who donated $300. Also to the owner of the building who donated $1000 and the owner of Global Gallery who is also kindly donating $1000!

We are at nearly $5000!

~ A Community Funded Mural project for downtown Arcata ~ A mural to beautify our town and pay respect to the land.

▪️Initiated by Artist and Arcata resident Tamar Atik. Made possible by the help and support of The Ink People.

▪️A Community funded Mural Project with the theme and title ‘Honor The Land’

▪️The Mural will be painted on the wall on the corner of H and 10th street. Seen when facing South towards the plaza.

▪️ The mural is proposed to be painted in June.

▪️The mission is to encourage healing and connection to the earth through art. Tamar is a passionate artist with a wish to bring art with a purpose to community spaces. She designed this mural with the intention of bringing awareness to the natural beauty and cycles of our planet and the importance of honoring it.

▪️To make this project a reality we need donations from the community! The goal is to raise $10000 to pay for materials, equipment hire, insurance, permits and the artists time to plan, prep, paint and seal the mural.

▪️15% of all funds raised will go to The Ink People:

More about the Ink people:

'The Ink People has been changing people's lives since 1979 by connecting the community with resources for cultural development. We encourage people to exercise their humanity, build civic discourse, and engage their creative potential. We are a community-based, grassroots, artist-run, arts and culture organization. We know that young people are the future and are incredibly challenged by today's world, so we try to give them tools to build successful and fulfilling lives.'

Photos and more details below….

The intention of the mural, ‘Honor the Land’ is to inspire in people a respect for the land that we inhabit. To encourage people to reflect on where we live and what was here long before us. It will tap into our instincts of honoring the cycles of Mother Nature. Remind us to connect with our surroundings and to respect all living things.

This mural’s mission is to bring more art, color and light to arcata. To encourage more community art and to facilitate deeper thoughts and healing conversations about our earth, it’s well-being and our duty to take care of it.

It will have elements of sea, sky, stars, the moon cycles, mountains, deer, and salmon, with a Torus in the center. The shape known as a 'Torus' is a self-organizing system of energy and geometry that flows through itself constantly. It can be found everywhere in nature, in ourselves and even in the cosmos.

To make Project: ‘Honor The Land’ a reality, we need funding from the community. The goal is to raise $10000 to paint the mural on the wall of the ground level of the building.

All money raised will go through The Ink People. And will be used to cover the cost of materials, insurance, permits, equipment hire and the artists time in planning, prepping, painting and sealing the mural.

15% of money raised will go to directly to the Ink People.

Any money raised over the goal will be be donated the Wiyot Tribe Tuluwat fund.

Accounts of money spent will be available for those who wish to see.

The images shown are digital mock ups of what the Mural will look like. When painted on the wall the colors and shapes may vary slightly.

All donations big and small are greatly appreciated!

Together we can brighten up downtown Arcata and encourage more art, healing and connection in an already very vibrant and artistic community.

THANKYOU so much for your support.

If you want to see more of the artists work go to www.tamaratikart.com or @tamaratikart on Instagram.
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Jasmin Segura is fundraising
Speak Up for English Express!
English Express, a DreamMakers project of The Ink People in Eureka (CA), opens the door to our non-English speaking neighbors by providing free language classes, field trips and connections to people and local resources in Humboldt, Del Norte and Trinity Counties (CA) and Curry County (OR).

We're raising $5,000 to support the program started in 2016.

The operating budget needed to maintain and grow the program in 2021 is $80,000. Grants and contributions have raised $30,000. You can help us fill the gap!

Will you join the friends of English Express and keep the program rolling?

In the first half of 2021, during the pandemic, the program started and led by Mary Ann Hytken provided 30 students with 80 online classes, tutorials and individual consultations. Grants and donations were used to get laptops for remote classes and to make the program free for participants, most from low-income households.

Everyone deserves a chance.

English Express builds confidence and connections and fosters self-sufficiency for our students.

Read about the program featured in June 1 edition of the Eureka Times-Standard.

Once part of the local community college, English Express operates as an independent community project under the financial umbrella of The Ink People. The Ink People has been changing people's lives since 1979 by connecting the community to the arts and resources for cultural development.

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The Ink People

PO Box 111

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About Ink People

Started in 1979, the Ink People changes lives by connecting the community with resources for cultural development. We encourage people to exercise their humanity, build civic discourse, and engage their creative potential. We are actively weaving the arts into the fabric of community. The Ink People is a community-based, grassroots, artist-run, arts and culture organization. We are organized on community access principles and the belief that art, in all its forms, is essential to the human spirit and well-being. We base our activities in a philosophy of sharing and community building. We know that young people are the future and are incredibly challenged by today’s world, so we try to give them tools to build successful and fulfilling lives.

627 3rd St.Eureka, CA 95501

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