Kids didn’t have drinking water in 91 degree heat. School couldn’t start. Toilets couldn’t flush. Dishes couldn’t be washed. Those are just a few of the countless ways the water system’s collapse has devastated families. Many had no water at all. Some had water, but it wasn’t pressurized and remained brown—filled with grit—and unsafe for…

Pakistan is underwater. Young girls float down the now-river that used to be a road, balancing on an old mattress turned makeshift raft, paddling with a broomstick. Fathers hold the only belongings they have left over their heads—whatever they could grab as the deluge descended—and try desperately to keep items dry as they wade through…

Together Rising steps into gaps for families—like Arie and her mom—whom you helped evacuate from Hurricane Ida’s wreckage this time last year. The devastation wrought by Hurricane Ida’s category 4 strength, 150 MPH winds, and relentless rainfall left thousands of families displaced from their homes. Arie’s family was one of them. Arie is a pediatric…

It has been one year since we watched in horror with the rest of the world as the Taliban took Afghanistan, knowing the unimaginable terror and persecution their control would guarantee, especially for women and girls. We promised that we would not allow them to be abandoned. Since then, Together Rising has raised and deployed…

On a terrifying day two years ago, Erin struggled to get her husband DJ—who was in intractable pain, and vomiting uncontrollably—in the car. But DJ was too sick to move any further, and Erin called an ambulance. At the emergency room, DJ was diagnosed with necrotizing pancreatitis, a life-threatening condition in which part of the…

THANK YOU FOR SHOWING UP FOR KENTUCKY AND ST. LOUIS! More than 823 of you have raised $58,418.39. THANK YOU! So many of you stepped up in the last few months to join TEAM LOVE, our community of recurring monthly givers, that we’re able to invest to ensure that $104,814.10 goes out the door in…

In eastern Kentucky, catastrophic flash flooding has killed at least 26 people, including children, and has left hundreds without homes, water, electricity, internet, and vital necessities.  The deluge has been unrelenting—engulfing entire homes and ripping roads apart, leaving countless people waiting on their roofs desperate for rescue crews to arrive. In Hazard, Kentucky, seven of…

Last year during the winter holiday season, Karla—a single mom of two—received heartbreaking news. The biopsy of the mass she found in her left breast confirmed what she suspected. At only 34 years old, she had breast cancer. Shortly after the new year started, Karla underwent surgery to remove the malignant mass. Her doctors recommended…

“This means so much. A brand new freakin’ start. I will be forever grateful and appreciate your part in my journey,” wrote Stacey about how you changed her life. Back in 2019, Stacey, her husband of 25 years, and three of their children moved into their dream home. Just six weeks later, her husband informed…

Content warning: This story includes one mention of interpersonal partner violence.  This community is a place to turn—just as it was for Debra. Debra is a single mom raising her three children on her own after surviving interpersonal partner violence. When we met Debra, two of her children had just been exposed to COVID-19 at…