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…

In the biggest wildfire outbreak in the U.S. in over a century, 200 wildfires are currently raging across 12 states.  The fires have destroyed towns, are burning hundreds of thousands of acres a day, have forced tens of thousands from their homes, and have killed at least 7 people, including a one-year-old boy.   The…

On August 10, a derecho storm with 100 mile per hour winds swept across the Midwest. The damage in Cedar Rapids, Iowa was catastrophic. In that region, the storm destroyed 43 percent of crops and half of the tree canopy, leaving at least 64,000 people without electricity. Tragically, the storm leveled several apartment complexes housing…

With ten years of nursing experience, Amelia* supported hundreds of fellow mamas as they welcomed their babies into the world. Her dream was to become a midwife.    A few months after she enrolled in graduate school to pursue midwifery, her husband died by suicide. He was a veteran who lived with PTSD. Overnight, she…

Together Rising stands with our heartbroken, enraged, and devastated siblings in Beirut.    While fighting a global pandemic, enduring political upheaval, and surviving an economic crisis, the people of Beirut suffered a devastating explosion last week.    Last Tuesday, thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate, reported to have been stored unsafely for years, detonated –…

After spending their lives in foster care, these Brave Ones had “aged out” of the system, and utterly alone in gigantic NYC – without a family, community or the tangible things needed to start a life. But they didn’t have to be. You stepped into this gap last May and gave enough for 32 youth…