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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Four weeks ago, Hurricane Laura, the strongest hurricane to hit Louisiana’s shore in over 160 years, decimated Cameron and Lake Charles with 150 MPH winds and unrelenting storm surge that engulfed entire buildings and ripped trees from the ground and roofs from homes, then tore through surrounding areas of Louisiana and Southeast Texas and Arkansas,…

  Toni*, a mom of two who is working hard to live with anxiety and depression during these difficult times, was about to lose phone service and electricity when she found the check from Together Rising in her mailbox.   “When I got the check in the mail I couldn’t believe it,” she wrote. “I…