2016 Year in Review

Here are some of the gifts you gave through Together Rising over the past year to make life more beautiful for our brothers and sisters across the country. Thank you.

As we begin 2017, let us resolve to stand fiercely for ourselves, and for each other.

· Warm coats and boots for single mom and daughter

· Grocery assistance for veteran mom with disabilities

· Headstone for baby who died unexpectedly, allowing family solace in knowing that his resting place was properly marked

· Grocery and housing assistance for a survivor of domestic violence, to help get her and her children away from their abuser

· $1500 to a woman to help her open her home to foster a pregnant teenage girl and her soon-to-be baby.

· Stroller for struggling new mom

· One month’s rent to help struggling family get back on their feet after medical issues

· Diapers, clothing, and food for survivors of domestic violence

· Help to move homeless mother caring for her daughter and her own mother into an apartment

· $10,000 to purchase school supplies for Louisiana teachers whose classrooms had been decimated in the floods

· Assistance to family at risk of losing their house because the father’s illness prevented him from working

· Rental assistance to family when husband diagnosed with colon cancer

· Phone bill of single mom going through chemo

· Initial brushing kits for two foster children needing braces

· $5,000 to a Title I elementary school to re-establish privately-funded reading program for kids who need extra help learning to read

· Utility bill of a family going through a difficult season of life due to job loss

· Funding for a photo project for a family who lost two sons in house fire

· Housing support for single mom going through immigration issues.

· Support for mother of four whose husband left her

· Financial grant to mom out of work and suffering from chronic Lyme disease

· $300,000 in funding to homeless youth centers across the United States, including to house, mentor and provide therapy for homeless young mothers, purchase critical items for one hundred children aging out of the foster care system, provide internships to LGBTQ homeless youth, expand food pantries and enhance outreach opportunities.

· Grocery assistance to single mother out of work and healing from neck surgery

· Scholarships for underprivileged teens attending a leadership school

· Deposit and rental assistance for family of 8 to give them an opportunity to start over

· Financial support to a beloved teacher whose son suffered a life-threatening injury in an automobile accident

· Funding for a Homecoming Dance to provide West Virginia high school students whose school was devastated by flooding some much needed hope, fun and normalcy

· Therapeutic tub for child suffering with debilitating illness

· Grant to help woman struggling while going back to school

· Coordination of Holiday Hands program providing a brighter holiday season to 700 families, and warm clothing, toys, and food to dozens of additional families needing help during the holidays after Holiday Hands program closed.

· Grocery assistance for single mom living in homeless shelter

· Christmas tree for family of 6 to brighten the holidays

· $10,000 in supplies and scholarships for children with disabilities to attend Camp PossAbility.

· Car payment and one month’s rent for woman with significant learning disabilities who has been trying to get up on her feet

· Financial assistance to family struggling with tragic loss of husband and father

· Christmas gifts for family with mom struggling with severe anxiety/panic attacks

· Financial assistance to family struggling with infant son’s health issues

· Groceries for mom and children whose father is incarcerated

· Special formula for baby boy with special chronic condition, as parents were suffering from job loss

· Grant to woman in financial distress, whose mother had recently passed away and she was dealing with health issues

· Grocery assistance to family living paycheck to paycheck and struggling during the holidays

· Financial support for family struggling with veteran husband’s cancer diagnosis.