Thanks so much for supporting the new RISSE Amazon Wish List, it is long and revealing, in itself a window into the great need of the refugees and immigrants who have come to America in search of a meaningful new life and found themselves instead in the middle of an awful controversy about their very right to be here.

I was touched to see that one of the items listed are 15 new shorts for the soccer team, now back under the sponsorship of RISSE.

I could write a book about my tortuous relationship with RISSE, but I’d rather channel all of our energy and compassion into helping these children and their families directly.

I am grateful for the support you have the team, which desperately needed our support. They have uniforms and soccer balls now.

I hope RISSE will take good care of them this time around.

RISSE, the refugee and immigration center in Albany, N.Y., does a lot of good, and is the last and only refuge for so many of these people, struggling ot acclimate to a complex and expensive culture.

I begin every day with a donation to the RISSE Wish List, there are many inexpensive items there and I hope we can get the soccer team the shorts they need to play and also help the children  and their families get some desperately need winter clothes and underwear and and books and tools for learning.

Ali’s soccer team, a wonderful good work in itself, is now under the umbrella of  RISSE, I am happy to try to help them, they are wonderful people.

I am a fan of the wish lists, the money goes quickly and straight to where it is supposed to go, there are no go-betweens or administrators or board members in between. You know exactly what your money is doing.

The other Wish Lists we have worked to start, the Amazon Mansion Wish List,  has also been successful. The list is empty now, we’ve buzzed through it a dozen times.

I’ve also recommend a Wish List for WBTN, a community radio station where I do my “Talking To Animals” show every Wednesday.

I think the Army Of Good has had an enormous impact on the the way to contribute to good causes, all of our wish lists have been transformative.
We have helped little WBTN in quite a bit in just a few short weeks. They are in shock.

Small acts of great kindness all over the place.

You can choose what you wish to purchase, and how much money you want to spend. This is a very effective way to do good, I hope you will take a look.

The RISSE list was very successful when we first recommended it, then it stopped suddenly. I am grateful that RISSE is putting it up again.

The Army Of Good has supported these refugees from the first, and I will not ever give up on that direction. They haver never needed us more than now.

Next week, I am meeting with officials and students at a prestigious private school, they wish to join up with me and get at least one full scholarship for next year for one, perhaps even two, refugee students who are succeeding so brilliantly in the public school system.

I am urging them to join forces with me and my blog readers, they have  raised a considerable amount of money already. We can work together, and successfully, I think,  I’ll explain all of this when we meet.

I am focusing heavily on getting scholarships for some of these students, as we did for Sakler Moo. Thanks, as always, for your support. You can see the new RISSE list here.

It is so much better to do good that to argue about what good is.