Thank you Flamingo for providing a succient mission statement (I hope you don't mind that I've paraphrased your original post. Please feel free to make changes). What do y'all think? Isn't it time to get started?
Our Mission...
1. Provide handwoven articles to help people in need (local, global, etc)
2. Provide financial support to communities in need.
By becoming a community of weavers providing financial support (to charities we designate).
1 It allows us to participate using our special skills as weavers: that is who we are and what makes us different from any other donating individual or group.
2 It allows us to maintain our identity as weavers, while helping in situations where handwovens are not what is needed. As we all know, often money is more readily translated into what is needed.
What we could do:
1. We could donate locally (and share what we are doing with this group.)
2. The group could identify charities that can use handwovens (along with contact info) and could encourage donations to these groups via challenges, contests, etc.
3. The group/Weavolution could provide links to charities in need of financial support OR could provide an actual button (see that "Donate" button for Weavolution? Something like that, but for the charity. We could link to PayPal.) Again, we could encourage donations via challenges or contests.
