Thousands of families, women, children and men, who have walked hundreds of miles fleeing in-country violence and persecution, are now at the southern border of the U.S. prepared to do the difficult work of presenting their petitions for legal asylum.   The shelters in Tijuana are overflowing, rain has caused much of the area to…

Hi All! Meet Audrey. Audrey’s neighbors call her “the mayor of Minneapolis” because she is constantly serving mamas and children. This is from her friend, Jessica:   “Each year, in between acting as a year-round clearing house for clothes and kids’ items, Audrey singlehandedly organizes a love-yourself-first Valentines’ day celebration, a school supplies drive, a…

As we celebrate with family and friends, let us take time to appreciate and share the truth.   While this holiday purports to mark friendship among Indigenous peoples and Pilgrims in 1621, the truth is that the first settlers and the U.S. government’s forced removals; theft of ancestral lands; biological warfare (intentionally distributing blankets contaminated…

Hi All. This is Desmond. He’s nine. He’s in treatment for Leukemia, and his doctors believe that one of the reasons he’s doing so well is because he’s so physically active. His mama, Melinda, wrote to us and told us that her baby’s dream is a particular mountain bike he’s seen in a fancy outdoor…

Together Rising exists to turn our collective heartbreak into effective action. So–for the forcible tearing apart of thousands of families at the border with no plan to reunify them; for the deportation of parents without the children who were taken from them; for the indefinite detention of asylum seeking and migrant children in tent cities–Here…

Even before Hurricane Florence struck last month, Together Rising was already hard at work making sure we knew the best boots-on-the-ground helpers who could step in immediately after the storm’s destruction.   Because of your generous monthly donations to Together Rising, we were able –in the direct aftermath of Florence’s devastation — to deploy $25,000…

Hi. I know the world feels terrible – but it is also still beautiful. Listen up.   Lila is ten years old. When she was nine, she was diagnosed with Leukemia. Lila and her mama, Heather, have been at a hospital 13 hours from their home, battling this Leukemia for almost a year now.  …

Stephanie has overcome tremendous challenges in her life, from struggling with addiction as a teenager, to enduring domestic violence as a young adult. Her sister Anne credits those battles with making her the supportive and determined mother she is today.   Stephanie constantly worries about her teenage daughter, Trinity, who is bullied for being LGBTQ…

Michelle found herself up at night worrying about her best friend’s babies. Feeling the need to transform some of that worry into action, she wrote to Together Rising. She told us about her friend Britt’s twin 4-year-old daughters, Maddie and Chloe.   Maddie and Chloe were both born with epilepsy. About a year ago, the…