Dear generous folks of PdLand,
In 2017, New Blankets has started a *Daily Benevolent Webcast* which will spotlight community organizations that are working to build communities in a free/open way.
- You can see our the netcast-of-the day shows directly from the New
Blankets website:
http://newblankets.org
- Every day New Blankets and other sponsors will be offering a *challenge
grant.* If you pledge a contribution for the feature community-organization on the day of the webcast, your contribution will be doubled (matched 1-1) by New Blankets and its sponsors, up to the amount of the challenge grant for that day.
- With this message, I'm particularly alerting Pd-list to two upcoming
shows of interest:
- On Saturday *January 7 the netcast will benefit *New Blankets
Initiatives in Europe* and work to build on some New Blankets launch activities already begun this past summer in Hebden Bridge UK. -- The guest on the January 7 show will be our own blanketeer and Pd stalwart, *Julian Brooks*.
- On Saturday *January 15 the NB Benevolent netcast show will be
dedicated to promote:
*-- Widening the Worldwide Welcome to Puredata --*
and the guest on January 15 will be Miller Puckette, whom some of you may have heard of.
Please drop by http://newblankets.org and listen if/when you care to. (We've _attempted_ to keep these netcasts under ten minutes, more or less.)
If you wish to help any of the New Blankets featured "good causes" on any given day of the netcasts, you may pledge any amount you choose: Simply send a message to calendar@newblankets.org and be sure to state the amount of your pledge in the "Subject:" line. ........................ (Once you've made a pledge by simple e-mail, your actual donation must be received within two weeks to be eligible for the 1-1 match funds. You may pay with paper checks or PayPal or most anything. -- If you need more info on how-to-pay after a pledge, -- please just send an inquiry to calendar@newblankets.org and we can provide more info about that.) ........................
By the way ... If you yourself have other "good causes" that you regularly donate to, you might consider passing the organization's information along to New Blankets. Perhaps NB can find a sponsor for a challenge grant and devote a day to your own additional "worthy causes," as well as those we've already identified for the New Blankets Benevolent Netcasts.
Cordially Joe Deken