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Link: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/flightsforfamilies

this is the fucking organization my mom works with and i’m kind of shook that this came up on my tumblr dash. donate if you can, y’all

@copperbadge is this a legit charity thing?

Yep! Flights For Families is being run by the same coalition that ran the Families Belong Together marches, and processed through ActBlue, which I believe screens its clients because it works for Democratic causes only. 

This is not to scold at all, but I’m now trying to educate people as we go in how to confirm these things for themselves; I didn’t have any special tools or foreknowledge (other than that ActBlue was a Democratic thing) when I fact-checked this. I checked by: 

1. googling duvernay plus “flights for families” in quotes, which led me to a (unfortunately defunct) page about Families Belong Together being the ones who ran it. Because all I could see was the Google blurb and it wasn’t cached, I

2. Googled “families belong together” and “flights for families” both in quotes, which took me to the Mashable page, which included quotes from and links to the chair of Families Belong Together talking about it. 

Remember you don’t have to work in nonprofit or be a researcher to fact-check! 😀