There’s Givewell, if you’re not married to the charities you’re giving to. They do mostly overseas disease mitigation - bed nets, anti-malarial drugs, Vitamin A supplementation to prevent blindness. It changes sometimes because they reevaluate what’s most needed and what the best use of their money is.
I don’t have anything helpful if you want to keep your current charities, though, sorry!
I do exactly this. I think I was able to choose what day my monthly donations happen cause I get their thank you emails the same day every month (you might want a junk email or an email filter for these).
GiveWell is good but obviously their resources are limited so they rarely have information on the local charities I want to support.
Do soap saver bags actually work? Like these:
Hung on hooks like that, yes. It gets all the little bits. Actually, great idea. I had just given up my solid shampoo because kid broke the last two, but a soapsaver/sock will help defeat him
Oh right, the little bits. I was also thinking about how hard it can be for my tiny dumb hands to hold a new bar and this might give me some extra grip
I have done this with the cut-off end of an old pair of stockings, it worked great and much cheaper!
Hey folks, I need to develop a personal system for work.
The primary purpose of my internship is to keep the commission I’m working for (and the people they report to) in the loop on current goings-on within the LGBTQ+ communities, as well as tracking anti-LGBT legislation.
What sources, streams, and feeds would you pull from?
How would you keep this information organized?
Further context:
edit: submitted too early
Flipboard might be useful for you! Both in terms of giving you a constant feed of LGBTQIA+ news happenings and also for finding good sources. I used it a lot for work and they have pre-set feeds for LGBT rights, voices, gender issues, etc.
This looks really interesting, thank you! I’ll definitely give it a try.
For finding legislation: I think you want a bill tracker. Various services exist, I haven’t tried them in ages so idk what’s out there now.
This one claims to offer free keyword search:
Some states offer RSS feeds, too:
https://www.ncsl.org/research/about-state-legislatures/bill-tracking-and-subscription-services.aspx
Also, making a separate email account and subscribing to LGBTQ orgs that announce this kind of stuff can also be a place to start.
I don’t really recommend Twitter anymore - there’s still good posters doing good work, but increasingly more formal non profit orgs / news companies / etc are closing their accounts because it’s gotten so toxic.
Hi friends 
Does anyone have a suggestion for a podcast that does one (once only, I’m currently using the 5-minute NPR news podcast, but it releases multiple times each day, not what I want) podcast/episode for news each day?
Seeking:
• Less than 30 minutes, the shorter the better.
• Highly condensed.
• Not local, can be world news, however I’m US-based.
• Pie in the sky wish: host has very average tone. Sometimes I listen to The Daily and the slight whisper tone Michael Barbaro uses sends me to sensory hell. 
Thx in advance!
If you are up for practicing another language, “slow news” has something like this in Spanish, French, and probably some other languages. They speak slowly 
I like Morning Edition and All Things Considered, but I think each of those is an hour. I also don’t know if they do podcasts. I stream from a local radio station.
I also stream from a local station and at 6AM/7AM/8AM they do the local headlines (which is mainly what I listen for) and the bigger headlines. By 7:04 I’ve heard everything I want for the day. I wish they released it as a podcast but alas.
Are you talking about Up First? I don’t listen because I hate learning news, especially first thing in the morning, but I thought it was 10-15 minutes once a day.
No clue, but I’ll look it up! 
I’m looking for any suggestions, I currently consume no news, because I’m on a news break (was having some panic attacks related to news) but I’m ready to have some high level daily news so that I can be part of the world again.
On my podcast app it seems to be 13 minute episodes once per day with one longer episode on a specific topic once a week
My vote is for up first. That’s what I listen to.
They’re weekly, though. Washington Post has a Spanish news podcast that’s three or four days a week.
It’s not strictly news. But i like the “ears edition” (aka just audio) of the daily show w Trevor Noah. I listen to 20 min and then skip the second half of the EP which is usually an interview.
Not news because it’s comedy, but still gives a taste of what’s out there.