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Episode-2395- Joshua Sloan with an Update on Citizens Assisting Citizens

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Joshua Sloan is a longtime listener and friend of TSP and is known by many in the community. He has been involved with Zello since 2012 and Citizens Assisting Citizens since their formation in 2013. He runs his own consultancy and has a long background marketing and technology.

Joshua is the lead moderator of TSPN Zello channel, where he is known as PA Prepper, and was recently picked as the Tech and Communications Team Lead for Citizens Assisting Citizens. He is here today as an authorized spokesperson to tell us about the 6th anniversary of CAC, lessons, learned, new initiatives and the future of Citizens Assisting Citizens.

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Josh’s Top Ten Ways to Support CAC

  1. Become a Pledge Drive donor at https://www.cacteam.com/2019-pledge-drive/ while we still have spots open for the silver round/
  2. Donate whenever you can, WePay, PayPal, Check which you can also do on our website https://www.cacteam.com/donations/
  3. Donate us your Amazon gift card codes by emailing them to finance@cacteam.com (Unfortunately we cannot give donation receipts for these, but we will use them!)
  4. Shop through our AmazonSmiles link on https://www.cacteam.com/amazonsmiles/ and Amazon will donate a portion of your purchase to CAC.
  5. Create a personal fundraiser on Facebook. We are a registered 501(c)(3) charity in the Facebook system which makes it EASY. Just go to https://www.facebook.com/CitizensAssistingCitizens and click on the ‘Create Fundraiser’ link. We have raised hundreds already, so we know it works.
  6. Join www.G2Crowd.com and take short surveys about software you use, and earn Amazon Gift Cards codes you can send us. You can earn up to $40 by reviewing just 4 software tools.
  7. Check with your employer to see if they have a matching donations program. We may be able to help your donation go even further if they have such a program.
  8. Share a direct pay PayPal link: https://www.paypal.me/cacteam to friends, family, your church or anyone who believes in the relief work that CAC does.
  9. And of course anyone can help spread the word about Citizens Assisting Citizens and our fundraising by liking, commenting and spreading the word vial email and social media.
  10. Lastly, your time is just as valuable to us as your donations, in fact the government says 1 hour of volunteer time is worth $24.69 per hour. But to us it is PRICELESS.

 

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Episode-2395- Joshua Sloan with an Update on Citizens Assisting Citizens — 8 Comments

  2. Great show Jack!  Thank you so much for your continued support of CAC.  And Josh, you rocked it!  We couldn’t have asked for a better spokesperson.  We’re so excited for the future of CAC and it totally came through in the show.

    Erin Martin aka Lighthorse

    Executive Director

    Citizens Assisting Citizens, Inc.

  3. Great show! Thank you for the publicity Joshua and Jack. The CAC Team are doing great things.

  4. Thanks for your ongoing contributions as well Andy! I have faith CAC will reach its goal and do great things. It was really excellent to talk with Jack about Citizens Assisting Citizens!

  6. To give some credit where it’s due, starting a non-profit is a real beast. I’m on the board of 2 non-profits that are both more than a decade old. CAC is well on its way to surpassing where they are because the mission is clear and the results are real/visible. Making it fully operational to the extent CAC has in less than a decade is an accomplishment. I know the initial roll-out wasn’t a full implementation of the original vision, but it was a helluva start. The HARVEY/MICHAEL response really showed that it works.

    I look forward to what CAC is going to do in the future and am confident that it can continue growing based on the real results that it has demonstrated.

    Keep it up! And I’ll do what I can where/when I can. I’ve realized that in my professional role in a public utility, it may be best for me to support by asking for CAC support in areas and working with them rather than as a part of it. Not what I expected, but such is life. I’m really proud and thankful of the support to the Gulf Coast and my company’s customers that CAC has provided.

  7. During Florence we had a volunteer who never worked with us because he had to deploy with the sheriff’s dept but he fed us info, including pictures, of road closures, conditions, needs etc… That sort of info is invaluable. In your work you’d be getting paid to do your work and could also help us immensely with on-the-ground info and pictures. Things like road closures are crucial to know because we are often guiding our volunteers from and to distribution centers. TX has an amazing site with that info but other states really don’t. If you’d be willing to do that it could keep our volunteers out of harm’s way by helping us guide them safely.

    We can find use for almost anything people are willing and able to provide.
    Can’t help us with any time or money but have a secure shed we can use to store things? HUGE!
    Can’t do anything but text me a picture as you work of a closed road? HUGE!
    Can’t do anything but connect us with a local business owner who wants to help? HUGE!
    Only have 30 minutes to donate a day? Great! Here’s a list of hotels to call with phone numbers and scripts to see if they can donate needed supplies to us. If you find one who can help, let us know and we’ll handle the rest.

    We can often turn “small” things into massively impactful things but the first step is telling us what you can offer. We never want anyone to think they can’t help in some way. Thank you for your comment!

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