Ric Juarez started Dear Future as a small side project to help people in his birth country of Peru. After serving in the Navy, Ric felt the need to keep serving, and in just a few years the mission of Dear Future has grown and reached communities in the US, South America and Africa.
Category: Nonprofits (Page 3 of 5)
The header image is my brother Jeff and me after our “make-up” ride last year. We both got Covid the week of the ride so we did our own ride a few weeks later by doing a century ride on the Virginia Capital Trail.
We made it back to the official ride this year. It was year 20, and it was another great weekend in support of an amazing cause and some of the bravest people you’ve ever met. I’m speaking, of course, of all the people fighting MS every day. Progress has been made, but there’s still no cure for this son-of-a-bitch of a disease. It’s slow, progressive, and insidious. Riding a bike from Richmond to Williamsburg and back is easy by comparison.
Thank you to the MS Society, all organizers, supporters, donors, vendors, partners and riders.
There’s still time to support the effort. Go to jaysmack.com/MS2023 or click the image below to sponsor me. It’s my brother Jeff and me at the start line in Richmond on Saturday, June 3.
CLICK THE PIC TO SPONSOR ME!
Short clip from the ride from Richmond to Williamsburg on Saturday.
Nonprofits can sometimes be at a loss to paint a detailed picture of the impact they’re making. “Just HOW and HOW MUCH are we helping our constituents and our community?” Maryfrances Porter of Partnerships for Strategic Impact can help answer that question and many more. Nonprofits often don’t know what they know and think that the mission is enough. By using detailed data they can learn so much that it can lead to evolution and adaptation of that mission and sometimes even changing the nature of the mission itself.
https://impactstorycoaching.com/
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Much of this music can be found on my Bandcamp collection
2023 0304 RCL Jay Smack Host
NEW
Ships In The Night – Sun One (Aurora mix)
(Aletha Levanthal – orig. from Cville)
New remix EP dedicated to a friend who passed away
Buck Gooter – Time Flies (pre-release track)
Ghost Brain
Released in April
Harrisonburg
WKNDR – Middle Aged Agitator Single
Released Feb 24
GIF FROM GOD – Knife Goes In, Guts Come Out
Digital Red (released yesterday March 3)
KINDA NEW
Omen Stones – Skin Self
Released in Dec
Appalling – Father Inferior Sacrilege
Nov 2022
Pyramid Mass – Wars Monolith
Jan 20
B4NK M4CHIN3 – Days Like These
Leisure, Recreaton and Stability
-members of The Seymores, Dynamic Truths, Coral, Fudge, Dark Little Rooms
The Mitras – Caroline
Benjamin Shepherd – Thirty Hour Day
Charlie Glenn – piano
Hotspit – Meltng Point
Keep – Dasani Daydream
Book of Wyrms – Sodapop Glacier Nov 2022
Byzantne – Purity Nov 2022 Charleston WV
NOT NEW
Justn Golden – Ain’t Just Luck Hard Times and A Woman
Drook – Soap
David Brookings – If I Don’t Make It Back
Cali via Richmond – was here 3-2
DUMM DUMMS – Halogen
Colin Phils – Totokon
June 2022
Cut The Architect’s Hand – Contempt As A Weapon
Hail Hornet – Disperse The Curse
Stinking Lizaveta – Witches and Pigs (Philly)
Were here recently
Name is a Dostoyevsky reference
Jim Ivins – Me And My Bones
Large Margin – Smothered and Covered
Merciful Zero – Melonite Kingdom
NO BS! Brass – Undying
V.E. – I Stared A Joke
Local music on WRIR 97.3 fm Independent Radio every Saturday from 5-7pm with a revolving group of hosts. If you missed it you can listen at wrir.org or at studiobrva.com.
The River City Limits episode from 1-7-23:
Bio Ritmo – Bionic Boogaloo (re-release, orig released 2006)
Flashlight Tag – Remains
Gold Connections – Around Your Eye
Thunderchief – Evil Woman
Merciful Zero – A Show
Murdersome – Smoke and Mirrors
Lance Bangs – Trust Fall
Ten Pound Snail – Glass Skin
Weekend Plans – Slide
B4nk M4chin3 – Downtown Expressway
Byzantine – Red Skies (The Fixx)
Erik Larson – Drop In The Bucket
Benjamin Mauch – Shallow History
Dust – Je Ne Sais Quoi
Burma Jam – Crunch
Ett Eko – Modern Content
Frames – Brewery
Junnie Mac – Monument Ave
Lonely Rooms – Just Say When
Midlife Pilot – Day Trip
Noah Page (feat. PJ Sykes) – Black Like Love
Piranha Rama – PLACATE
Spooky Cool – I Lick The Sweat Off Your Back
Strange Cut – Say What You Will
Throttlerod – On The Mountain
TVLPA – The Eyes
V.E. – I Started A Joke
WKNDR – Color of Your Love
WRIR playlist/website post
Support the station that supports local music HERE
*new
Blush Face – Had To*
Henry Haggard – Such a Shame Bout the Redwoods*
FM Skyline – On the Promenade*
Byzantine – Wings of My Soul*
Byzantine – Purity*
Appalling – Father Inferior*
Charles Owens – Breakfast In America*
McKinley Dixon – Sun, I Rise (feat. Angélica Garcia) (radio edit)*
Jonathan Vassar – A Picture of Heaven*
Timothy Bailey & the Humans – Killer from the Mountain*
Midlife Pilot – North*
Spooky Cool – Net Ignored*
the Silent Boys – Living In The Lion’s Jaws*
Hewolf – The Ocean*
Sun Years – Teeth Like Stars*
THUNDERCHIEF – Don’t*
A New Dawn Fades – No Experts On Big Things
Deathcrown – Jackals
Omen Stones – Skin
Mouthbreather – The Night That Richmond Died
Deli Kings – Gimme ur love
Gusher – Funhouse Mirror (Livin’ Like Larry)
Honest Debts – Burn Your Banner
Prabir Trio – America
Butcher Brown – BLACK MAN
Matt Monta & the Haymakers – The Night
RIKKI RAKKI – Fire
Featured artists’ music is purchased whenever possible.
Most of this music can be found on Bandcamp in my collection.
River City Limits is one of WRIR’s local music shows and airs every Saturday from 5-7pm. I host the show at least once a month with a revolving cast of DJs.
This week, Mackenzie Roark talks about the upcoming release of her new record “Rollin’ High, Feelin’ Low” on October 18 on Vocal Rest Records. The album release show is October 22 at Get Tight Lounge.
Also new music from Merciful Zero, B4NK M4CHIN3, Lean Year, Drook, Ohbliv, Piranha Rama and more.
This episode’s WRIR blog post.
Full playlist:
Merciful Zero “A Show” from single
I Am the Liquor “A Speck of Light” from A Speck of Light – Single
B4NK MACHIN3 “Days Like These” from single
Mackenzie Roark “Sweet Thing” from Sweet Thing – Single
>>Mackenzie Roark interview
Mackenzie Roark “Highway I’ve Been On” from Highway I’ve Been On – Single
Lean Year “The Trouble With Being Warm” from The Trouble With Being Warm – Single
Hotspit “Cave Dweller” from Hotspit on Audiotree Live – EP
Drook “She” from She – Single
Drook “Soap” from Soap – Single
Deau Eyes “Make Some Time” from Make Some Time – Single
Colpa Mia “Annie” from single
ohbliv “Raw Power Vibrations” from Raw Power Vibrations Extended Play – EP
Spooky Cool “Net Ignored” from Net Ignored – Single
Piranha Rama “A Door” from A Door – Single
Piranha Rama “Golden Blues” from Golden Blues – Single
Armagideon Time “Foxed In The Head (radio edit)” from single
Thunderchief “Screaming Pope Study (Dirty Feather Boas cover)” from single
TVLPA “The Eyes” from Fire… – EP
Dumb Waiter “Digging a Hole under a Bodega” from Gauche Gists
Halfcast “Return” from Return
Gold Connections “Confession” from Confession – Single
Pete Curry “Chevy Van” from Advice on Love
Keep “In the Deep” from In the Deep – Single
Ryan Kent (feat Jimmy Bower) “Bring Me My Monster” from single
The Ar-Kaics “To Be Free” from To Be Free – Single
Landon Elliott “Mona Lisa” from Mona Lisa – Single
Denali “Surface” from The Instinct
Today’s episode is a recap of the 3rd Annual Go Forward Together Ride. It was recorded at Final Gravity Brewing, the start/finish line for the ride and site of the after party. The after party actually became the main event as we had to cancel the ride due to remnants of Hurricane Ian rolling in and a state of emergency having been declared. Safety is always the #1 priority. Participating in the discussion are :
-Andrea Starr – Executive Director of the Forward Foundation
-Dan Cherkis – Forward Foundation cyclist advisory board and ride leader of the Carytown Bicycles Saturday morning group ride
-Tim Mullins – Market Manager Atlantic, Specialized Owned Retail
-Bryan Oprel – General Manager Carytown Bicycle Co., Specialized Owned Retail
-and me, Jay Smack – Forward Foundation cyclist advisory board and host and producer of the Good Eye Podcast.
Go Forward Together Ride
The Forward Foundation
Carytown Bicycle Company
Final Gravity Brewing
For a complete list of sponsors and media partners go to goforwardtogetherride.com
Susanna Calvert is the founder of the Foundation for Family and Community Healing. Their mission is to “empower us all to create healthy, positive, rewarding relationships woth ourselves, each other, Earth, and the loving force greater than ourselves”. What started as something Susanna began in 2018 following several tragic life events now reaches internationally helping people “change their behavior, and change their world.”
Foundation for Family and Community Healing
Launch of thier Synapse Hub Sept 13
Silent Auction Fundraiser Nov. 18, at the Crossroads Art Center
Register for the ride, or just come out to Final Gravity Brewing in Lakeside on Saturday, Oct.1. Riders will start getting back to Final Gravity about 11am after the ride. There will be an after event with food and fun for everyone.
Info and registration at GoForwardTogetherRide.com
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