Mutual Aid Brookline Birthday Fundraiser!
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Happy 1st Birthday, Mutual Aid Brookline!
MAB was launched on March 15th, two days after Brookline schools first closed at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis. We are still building, fundraising, and organizing for the future so that we can continue to provide essential resources like food, cleaning supplies, medication, childcare, financial assistance, language access, and library materials as immediately as possible, and to build community through our community notes digest.
There is no question that this year has been hard on everyone. And, we must acknowledge that the coronavirus and its accompanying socially reproduced housing and food access crises, to name just two, have most deeply affected communities and people who were already subjected to starkly inequitable conditions. Both in Brookline and across the country Black, Latinx, Asian and Indigenous communities, older adults, people with disabilities and chronic illnesses, trans and queer people, people who've been subjected to poverty, and all the intersections of the above named groups, are disproportionately killed, exploited and hurt due to COVID and our government’s response. We also recognize that as a white led organization, we need to work towards accountability to our BIPOC, poor and working-class, and multiply-marginalized neighbors.
We are committed to coming together as a community to support each other, and we as a network are learning what solidarity can and ought to look like in Brookline.
In a year filled with so much loss and absence, we built something. Together. To keep our neighbors alive, and safe, and fed, and hopeful. And that’s worth celebrating.
For our birthday, we want to do what we do best - keep giving back to the Brookline community! Over the last twelve months, we have:
Redistributed over $61,000 in grocery and medication subsidies
Completed more than 1,100 deliveries
Subsidized more than 635 hours of childcare
Redirected over $15,000 in Direct Financial Aid
Volunteered more than 10,500 hours across eight initiatives
Our goal of $12,000 may seem like a lot, and to many of us, it is. That’s just enough to keep MAB up and running for two more months.
Let’s get our community through this dreary winter together. Everyone who has answered the hotline, stayed home to keep their neighbors safe, delivered groceries, translated requests, reached out at a time when we are physically apart - all of you are part of MAB. So, this is YOUR birthday, too.
So, what do you say? Please share, donate, spread the word, and/or volunteer with us. Let’s keep MAB going for our birthday!
MAB was launched on March 15th, two days after Brookline schools first closed at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis. We are still building, fundraising, and organizing for the future so that we can continue to provide essential resources like food, cleaning supplies, medication, childcare, financial assistance, language access, and library materials as immediately as possible, and to build community through our community notes digest.
There is no question that this year has been hard on everyone. And, we must acknowledge that the coronavirus and its accompanying socially reproduced housing and food access crises, to name just two, have most deeply affected communities and people who were already subjected to starkly inequitable conditions. Both in Brookline and across the country Black, Latinx, Asian and Indigenous communities, older adults, people with disabilities and chronic illnesses, trans and queer people, people who've been subjected to poverty, and all the intersections of the above named groups, are disproportionately killed, exploited and hurt due to COVID and our government’s response. We also recognize that as a white led organization, we need to work towards accountability to our BIPOC, poor and working-class, and multiply-marginalized neighbors.
We are committed to coming together as a community to support each other, and we as a network are learning what solidarity can and ought to look like in Brookline.
In a year filled with so much loss and absence, we built something. Together. To keep our neighbors alive, and safe, and fed, and hopeful. And that’s worth celebrating.
For our birthday, we want to do what we do best - keep giving back to the Brookline community! Over the last twelve months, we have:
Redistributed over $61,000 in grocery and medication subsidies
Completed more than 1,100 deliveries
Subsidized more than 635 hours of childcare
Redirected over $15,000 in Direct Financial Aid
Volunteered more than 10,500 hours across eight initiatives
Our goal of $12,000 may seem like a lot, and to many of us, it is. That’s just enough to keep MAB up and running for two more months.
Let’s get our community through this dreary winter together. Everyone who has answered the hotline, stayed home to keep their neighbors safe, delivered groceries, translated requests, reached out at a time when we are physically apart - all of you are part of MAB. So, this is YOUR birthday, too.
So, what do you say? Please share, donate, spread the word, and/or volunteer with us. Let’s keep MAB going for our birthday!
Give $80 to help get this fundraiser to its goal
Fundraising team (6)
Eva Ackerman
Organizer
Brookline, MA
Eliana Von Krusenstiern
Team member
Liz Neill
Team member
Ari Zimmet
Team member
Samuel Tarlow
Team member
