Tomorrow is Match Day for Holiday Hands 2020!
Meet back here tomorrow at 12pm ET/9am PT for Together Rising’s 10th Annual Holiday Hands! Tomorrow is Match Day for Holiday Hands — a miracle that YOU pull off every year. It is the day we re-learn that small things with great love are what change the world. It’s when we prove what we…
You invested $50,000 to support women veterans and their children
Together Rising honors the sacrifices and visible and invisible wounds of every veteran who has served and is serving in the military. We believe that supporting our service members and their families is not just about bumper stickers and slogans and this particular day of gratitude – but about how we treat our veterans and…
10th Annual Holiday Hands
It is our TENTH annual Holiday Hands!! Holiday Hands is the miracle that YOU pull off each year, showing up for hundreds of families who need a little extra for the holidays. This year we are going to show up for more families than ever. Please mark your calendars for November 17! Whether you’ve been…
Letters to Eva-Marie
Remember Eva-Marie? Last summer, Eva-Marie’s caretaker Nicole wrote to us about how isolating and lonely this time of COVID-19 has been for Eva-Marie: “Eva-Maria came to the US from Germany. For all of these years she has kept in touch with friends and family using letters. Now, at 91, most of her friends…
Thank you from a mama of two
Laid off, with two small children — including one who has Down syndrome and related immunodeficiency — single mama Rebecca* was struggling to cope with the excruciating financial stress, loneliness, and exhaustion of this time. You sent your love along with money to help Rebecca pay rent and her electric bill. She wrote this…
Your additional investment to keep searching for and reuniting families.
Three years. That’s how long some of these babies have been torn away from their families. At least 545 of the thousands of parents whom the Administration separated from their children still haven’t been found. Read that again: 545 of the parents who were torn from their children by the Administration up to three years…
We’re all givers and receivers
Maureen* had been a regular TEAM LOVE giver to Together Rising, always grateful to share what she could with people who needed a little extra. However, when her husband, the sole income-earner for their family, was furloughed due to COVID-19, Maureen worried anxiously about paying bills and keeping food on the table for her three…
Thank you from Eva!
Eva left a toxic and homophobic environment to move to Brooklyn in August. Twenty three years old, she’d been working three jobs to make ends meet, but when Covid hit, she lost all of her jobs. She has been desperately looking for work, and selling her belongings online to scrape together enough for food and…
A wagon for Vicky!
Stacy, a mama of two girls, wrote to us recently about her family’s very limited transportation options. Walking is Stacy and her girls’ primary way of getting where they need to go — but for her Autistic six-year-old daughter Vicky, who has ankle issues that affect her ability to walk and require her to wear…