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Together Rising continues to stand with families impacted by last month’s winter storm. Families are just getting back on their feet after the devastation — and thousands are in great need of vital essentials.  Today, through Together Rising, you just deployed $40,000 to the Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley to support their mobile…

This week’s winter storm in Texas resulted in the “largest forced blackout in history” according to Time, leaving at least 3.3 million in freezing temperatures without electricity or heat and countless people without safe drinking water.  At least 31 people have died, including a grandmother and her three grandchildren who tragically died in a house…

“Erin, a single mother of three-year-old Fitzgerald — lovingly called Fitz— was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer in spring 2020. She cried and then got to work. For Erin, that included surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and hospital stays, all while caring for Fitz, working full-time, and living through the pandemic.” After months of grueling treatment,…

At the beginning of the year, we asked what being part of this Together Rising community meant to you. In your comments, you highlighted the most beautiful aspects of this community!  Each of you make this community what it is: a powerful, direct, effective world-changing collective.  THANK YOU. Let’s keep changing the world, together.  

As millions of families facing overwhelming challenges know far too well right now: The line between financial stability and drowning in debt can be cruel and narrow — crossed quickly no matter how hard you try.  You, through Together Rising, are holding that line and restoring stability for families across the nation.  Meet Charles, Teresa,…

According to the UN, Yemen is experiencing the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. The civil war has decimated businesses and factories and closed hospitals and commercial ports —  leaving the country without the critical infrastructure needed to function at a basic level, let alone address the world’s worst cholera outbreak, flooding, and now COVID. A staggering…

At Together Rising, we are not a community of  “givers” and “receivers.” We are a community committed to showing up for each other — sometimes we need a little extra and sometimes we give a little extra. This is why we love Billy and Teagan’s story.   You met Teagan this time last year when she…

As we reflect on the last year, our hearts are filled to the brim with deep gratitude and immense appreciation for the countless ways you’ve continued to show up and make all of this work possible. Because of you, Together Rising helped more families in 2020 than ever before.  As we start a new year,…