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Geraldine Talley Celestine Chaney Roberta Drury Margus Morrison Andre Mackniel Aaron Salter Heyward Patterson Katherine Massey Pearl Young Ruth Whitfield Those are the names of the ten Black people who were killed in Buffalo on Saturday in a racist massacre by a white supremacist. Three more were injured.  One of the victims, Andre Mackniel, was…

We support safe, accessible healthcare as a human right. Today, we are investing $135,000 in three organizations that are working tirelessly to provide safe access to critically-needed reproductive healthcare: All-Options, Colorado Doula Project, and WE Health Clinic. Queer and BIPOC-led, All-Options provides stigma-free, peer-based counseling and support to patients via a toll-free talkline available in…

Meet James! Through Together Rising, you helped James’ mom, Jessica, reserve a service dog that will help meet her son’s daily needs, including safety, comfort, and mobility. James is a nine-year-old dog lover who lives in the western part of the United States. At fifteen months old, he was diagnosed with partial agenesis of the…

On the day Russia invaded Ukraine, Oxana’s four little ones were playing outside. Their laughter was interrupted by the roar of a missile strike near their home. Oxana and her husband loaded their terrified children into the car. Together, the family left everything behind in Odessa to seek refuge at a tiny cottage in the…

Today, we are sharing for the first time the story of an investment we made last year. Nearly one million Rohingya refugees have been forced from Myanmar to Bangladesh, escaping decades-long disenfranchisement, persecution, and violence so heinous that the U.S. and other countries have formally recognized the Rakhine state’s actions against Rohingya Muslims as genocide.…

On Tuesday, during rush hour as children were on their way to school and adults to work, a gunman opened fire in a subway car in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. As of this writing, thirty people have been reported injured. At least ten were struck by gunfire, including several…

How has our partner, Estonian Refugee Council, evacuated more than 8,000 people from Ukraine and delivered emergency, multi-purpose cash assistance to 4,200 households? Your support. ERC’s response to the attacks on Ukraine has been extremely comprehensive, meeting the most urgent needs of families and children in both Estonia and Ukraine. For weeks, ERC coordinated as…

What follows is the story of how you, through an additional $250,000 investment, are delivering 5,000 more life-saving, emergency food baskets to families in Yemen. Facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, families and children in Yemen are fighting to survive impossible conditions, including a grave lack of access to the most basic of…

Seven months ago, we watched in horror with the rest of the world as the Taliban took Afghanistan, understanding the unimaginable terror and persecution their control would all but guarantee, especially for Afghan women. Very soon after, we made a commitment to you. We promised we would show up for Afghan families. Since then, we…

You helped a military family get some much-needed breathing room after going through an extremely stressful time: two tours of duty overseas, several surgeries and hospitalizations, a difficult cross-country move, and more. Maddie and Robert are parents to three little ones, Easton, Emery, and Amelia. A staff sergeant in the army, Robert has served in…