<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: start;" class="">~~~~~~~This is an organization in our community supporting the infrastructure and “Common Good” </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: start;" class="">of what is so often taken for granted but is important and essential for the Life of Harmonious Community~. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: start;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: start;" class="">~ As we have personally experience and witnessed over the past, nearly 3 years, such as the closure of </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: start;" class="">many business, as well as, shortages of competent help in all areas including health care, trades, </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: start;" class="">locally grown foods and certainly the corporate threats that would objectify and deplete our natural </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: start;" class="">environmental resource base, threaten sustainability and the very values intrinsic of legacy life style. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: start;" class="">Meeting the threats that would commoditize what we hold near and dear to the heart and soul of our </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: start;" class="">coastal environment and <b style="font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="">the very </b><b style="font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="">things </b><b style="font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="">that you </b><b style="font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="">believe are important in the way you </b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: start;" class=""><b style="font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="">live </b><b style="font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="">and work</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="3" class="">. This is a WatchDog Action participatory group whose eye is upon those </font></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: start;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="3" class="">powers that </font></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="3" class="">would </font></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">extract and export our financial base out of community and much more~. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: start;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: start;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="3" class="">The GrassRoot Institute meets to determine community priorities and action plans. The </font></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: start;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="3" class="">Institute not only needs financial help ~ it also needs to know what your priorities are in </font></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: start;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="3" class="">order for your life to be the way you would like it to be~. If you feel called to involve your-</font></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: start;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="3" class="">self financially or as a </font></span><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="3" class="">volunteer or with ideas and/or input get in touch with them~!</font></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: start;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: start;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="3" class="">Vigilance in 2023 ~~~~~ Stay Healthy and Happy, ~~~~Ron </font></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: start;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: start;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: start;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: start;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: start;" class=""><a href="https://alliancefordemocracy.salsalabs.org/GrassrootsInstituteform/index.html" class=""><img alt="GRI 2023 fundraising letter.1.6.23.pdf.png" style="margin-right: 0px;" apple-inline="yes" id="10D6D0C2-05AA-491B-9A52-40E4622EBB37" class="" src="cid:ii_lcla8vnm2"></a><br class=""></div><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>