A project I really like, Hollaback!, needs your help! From an email I received this morning:

“Hollaback! is a movement to end street harassment.  We believe that everyone should have the right to feel safe, confident, and sexy without feeling threatened or endangered in public space.

We’re raising funds to develop an iPhone app that will enable real-time tracking of street harassment, and the collection of the good data we need to make a real impact in the policy realm.  We’re scaling up. It’s exciting. It’s a movement.  And I need your help.

We a running a campaign on Kickstarter.  We’ve raised $5000 so far and we need to raise another $7,500 to make the iPhone app happen.  Here’s the catch:  if we don’t raise the other $7,500 in the next nine days, we don’t get any of the money.

Why does it matter? The iPhone app will allow folks to report on-the-go their harassment stories - constituting the first ever data collected on when and where street harassment happens in history.  Yes, in history.  We will map it and take it to the media, policymakers, and whoever else will listen.  We will change culture and policy.  With the touch of a button, we will turn harassment into history.

But we won’t do any of this unless we raise $7500 in 9 days. So donate now. (I just did!) Even 5, 10, 20 dollars is a big help, as it shows other Kickstarter users that the project has momentum and should be funded by them too! It’s tax-deductable too.”

I donated! Please do so as well!