B.C. man’s One Day’s Pay campaign raises more than $420K for Indigenous groups – BC

A motion that started with a single particular person donating a day’s value of pay on Nationwide Day for Fact and Reconciliation has now raised greater than $423,000.

One Day’s Pay started after Vancouver resident Joshua Hensman mentioned he felt “conflicted” being paid for a “vacation” meant to honour and have fun Indigenous peoples.

He determined to donate his earnings to organizations that help First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples, and with 5 associates, launched a marketing campaign encouraging others to do the identical.

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“I’m positively astounded by this,” Hensman instructed World Information, because the marketing campaign heads into its remaining week of fundraising. “I had an incredible crew.”

The general public can donate to One Day’s Pay till Oct. 12.

All proceeds have already gone to, and can proceed to go to, the Indian Residential School Survivors Society, the Orange Shirt Day/Each Little one Issues Society, and the Nationwide Affiliation of Friendship Centres.

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“I feel what was realized is that persons are actually prepared to have interaction and do one thing tangible,” mentioned Hensman.

To assist information the marketing campaign, One Day’s Pay partnered up with The Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada, an Indigenous-led group that helps mobilize the “settler philanthropic sector.”

These partnerships, mentioned Hensman, are a part of what he believes led to the marketing campaign’s sweeping success.

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“I might say that one individual can solely make a distinction after they’re connecting and interesting with different individuals,” he defined.

“I actually don’t take any private credit score for this.”

Hensman and the crew have determined to carry the marketing campaign again subsequent yr, forward of Canada’s second annual Nationwide Day for Fact and Reconciliation.

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Nobody from The Circle or Indigenous Residential College Survivors Society was obtainable to touch upon this story on Monday, but on Twitter, Kris Archie, CEO of The Circle, known as the marketing campaign “a begin towards money again.”

“I’ve been grateful to attach with & have our crew @TheCircleCanada work alongside the oldsters like Josh, Katrina, Jess & others as they work to mobilize settles to suppose & do in another way,” she wrote (sic).

“By giving, by studying, by doing … the @GiveOneDaysPay ask is extremely easy – Replicate then Act – share & amplify their ask with others, have conversations with your loved ones, coworkers and religion communities and most significantly – GIVE ABUNDANTLY.”