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The best thing we can do is good. The Steemit Inc team is keen to do good. One way we can do that is to support some of the great charitable causes that have made their home on Steem. We are therefore launching Steem Charity Day. --- ### The Charities We Will Be Supporting

We have been following the activities of two great charities that have both been on Steem for quite some time. One is the **Little Disciples** project that works with disadvantaged children in Venezuela… * [**Thanks Steemit for your support**](https://steemit.com/adollaraday/@littledisciples/thanks-steemit-for-your-support) @littledisciples joined Steem in May 2018 and is led by @lopzdaniel and his wife. They also have a presence on Facebook… * https://www.facebook.com/fundacionpequenosdiscipulos/ --- The other charity we will be supporting is **The Greens** - an environmental education organisation based in Bamenda in western Cameroon… * [**The 1000 COVID-19 Reusable Face Masks Project Update**](https://steemit.com/coronavirus/@thegreens/7hjs2y-the-1000-covid-19-reusable-face-masks-project-update) @thegreens is led by Ngalim Franklin and they have been on Steem since June 2017. More information about their activities is available on their website… * https://www.thegreens-international.org/index --- We will also be on the look-out for other charities on Steem to support. If you know of any please put their details and Steem account in the comments below. --- ### How Steemit Inc Will Be Supporting The Charities

We will be supporting @littledisciples and @thegreens, and other potential charities, in two ways initially. Firstly we will be upvoting their posts as often as we can with the @steemitblog and @steemcurator01 accounts. **Secondly, from now on all 100 Days of Steem posts will be set to 50% beneficiary to @littledisciples and 50% to @thegreens.** It will be a great shame if we get continued downvoting on the posts as that will reduce the funds that could go to these excellent charitable projects. --- ### Thursday will be Steem Charity Day

So the community can join in with supporting these two great projects we are designating Thursday each week as **Steem Charity Day**. It will be totally voluntary to participate but if you would like to support the work of @littledisciples and @thegreens we would ask you every Thursday to… * upvote one or more of their posts * set some part of the beneficiaries of a post on that day to one or both of their accounts. When posting on steemit.com you can set the beneficiaries via the ‘Advanced Settings’ beneath the Rewards details. We hope as many of you as possible will join in with Steem Charity Day every Thursday. It will be a great demonstration of how the Steem Community can come together to do good. --- Thank you, and keep following for a big announcement on Saturday _The Steemit Team_ --- --- ### Notes from the Community...

#### Shopify now accepts STEEM

@offgridlife and @shortsegments have both reported on the news that sites using the very popular Shopify ecommerce system can now accept payments in STEEM and SBD... * [**Steem is accepted on Shopify!**](https://steemit.com/hive-123507/@shortsegments/steem-is-accepted-on-shopify) * [**Breaking News: Shopify to accept payments in Cryptocurrency including Tron and Steem**](https://steemit.com/steem/@offgridlife/breaking-news-shopify-to-accept-payments-in-cryptocurrency-on) --- #### The Steeming Showcase #5

@steemingcurators have posted the fifth edition of their showcase of the best creators on Steem... * [**The Steemingcurators SHOWCASE Edition #5**](https://steemit.com/steemexclusive/@steemingcurators/the-steemingcurators-showcase-edition-5) --- #### Steem Community Forum - Sunday, June 7th

Another forthcoming June Community Curator @greenhouseradio has announced that they are transforming their previous Steem Witness Forums into wider Steem Community Forums. The next one will be on Sunday, June 7th at 6pm UTC. Everyone is welcome to join in... * [**Growing Together**](https://steemit.com/hive-121089/@greenhouseradio/growing-together) --- ---