Felt Pin/Brooch for your partner's social action

Here's an easy, inexpensive to mail swap - as felt pins/brooches (unless they are really big!) can fit in a regular envelope with double postage. it's a swap particularly aimed at members of Swapping for a Better World, but is open to everyone. It is intended for us to honour our partner's social conscience and to find out about each other and the opportunities that exist out there to make a difference.

This is an Canada / US swap open to swappers with a 4.5 or higher rating and no 1's or 3's in the past 3 months. Newbies are welcome with complete profiles - please message me first to show commitment. I reserve the right to ban folks that set off my flake alarm.

You will have 1 swap partner and you will make and send them one felt pin/brooch based on a social action, charity or cause that your partner supports. It is expected that participants put some care and effort into the item - nothing that is just a felt strip twisted into a ribbon, threatens to fall apart on the first wearing, or requires the new owner get a tetanus shot. ;)

After signing up, participants should post in the thread below, the causes that they support (e.g. fight against breast cancer, the humane society, habitat for humanity). Please avoid causes that you know may be contentious (e.g. pro life or pro choice organizations, political groups) and offer several choices if you are unsure.

once partners are assigned, come to this thread, find your partner and pick one of their causes. Seek out enough information to understand what it does and then make a felt pin that their partner can wear to show their support.

With the pin, the sender should include a note that describes one of their own favorite causes and why it is near and dear to their heart.

NOTE: This swap is about community and about respect. Please come to it with a generous spirit. No fights will be tolerated. If your partner posts organizations that you fundamentally can not work with, you are responsible to contact them and seek a common ground that you can support instead. If the partner that has you contacts you seeking an alternative common ground, don't grill them about why they are asking, just work towards it.

Cheers!

~Mo