RVA 5x5 - Easy Like Sunday Evening, January 29, 2023

Living For Live Music; Helping Area Non-Profits; The Planet’s “Fighting Editor”; Ignore That First Referendum; LTL From RVA.

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You can find the 5 main stories from Friday’s edition here, and today features the “ALT 5” stories for a nice, leisurely, “Easy Like Sunday Morning” read. Enjoy!

THE ALT 5

ALT #1 — OFF THE BEATEN PATH: Helping Area Non-Profits
Karri Peifer at Axios reported this week that over 150 non-profits in the Richmond region will lose funding from the AmazonSmile program beginning next month. That’s the bad news. The good news is that Kroger’s Community Rewards program is not only there to pick up the slack, but even though it might be less glitzy than Amazon, it already delivers more to non-profits.

Amazon’s program allocated 0.5% of sales on certain purchases to one of 181 non-profits in the region that customers selected in their account settings. Peifer reports that, “Donations amount varied: Feed More saw more than $15,000 from the program over 10 years, and Richmond SPCA came to depend on $1,700 to $2,200 a quarter, they tell…