I think that's a terrible thing to do... There are real people which might have to find workarounds just to know what your initiative is about.

I'm also curious about the type of your initiatives, are they really local? Programming stuff isn't limited to the US[1].

[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#methodology (only 25% of the stack overflow 2018 survey responses were from North America in general)