$2,000 to provide $200 grocery gift cards for current RFC beneficiary families facing emergency circumstances.
A $1000 TAY Development grant for the 18-year-old targeted activist who was bullied due to her leadership in the BLM movement.
$2000 for educational supplies and sports for two kids, ages nine and 13, whose father participated in a hunger strike at a detention center to protest the detention of immigrants and unsafe conditions during the pandemic. As a result, he was threatened with deportation, told he would not be eligible for release and taunted by prison guards.
$1800 for art supplies and a CIF award for two children, ages 13 and 18, whose father is an immigrants’ rights leader. Since being denied a stay of deportation and entering sanctuary, DHS and ICE officials have escalated threats and pressure against him.
$2100 for educational expenses and a CIF award for two siblings, ages 15 and 19. ICE detained and deported their father in an apparent act of retaliation for his years of leadership within the immigrants’ rights movement.
$3127 for sports expenses for the two sons, ages seven and 14, whose mother became a vocal activist while in sanctuary. The boys’ father was detained in retaliation for his wife’s activism, and she and her community continue to face ICE persecution.
$4500 for virtual learning supplies for three children, ages 11 to 17, whose mother lost her job and faced threats for exposing severe medical malfeasance and neglect at an ICE detention facility.
$3000 for tutoring and therapy for two daughters, ages five and 15, whose mom faced online harassment and attacks as a result of her fight for reproductive health access for all. The attacks forced the family to relocate.
$1500 for dance and music lessons for a six-year-old girl whose mom went public about being stopped by a Customs and Border Patrol agent because she was speaking Spanish. She took legal action and had to move to escape the harassment she endured for speaking out.
$1800 for mental health support and educational supplies for the 17-year-old targeted activist youth who was bullied due to her leadership in the Black Lives Matter movement.