We are Katey, Frank, and Ellie, three Minnesotans living in Brooklyn, raising funds to support mutual aid efforts on the ground in Minnesota.

Here’s a bit more about us and where your support will go:

Ellie is a Twin Cities native whose parents live less than a block from where Alex Pretti was executed. For the past nine years, her nonprofit, the Neighborhood Theatre Project (NTP), has worked closely with community members in Willmar, Minnesota. After spending this past week on the ground in both Minneapolis and Willmar, Ellie will help direct funds to trusted mutual aid efforts in the Willmar area: a Somali-run halal food shelf and a community-led group delivering groceries, hygiene supplies, and notes of care to more than 200 households every week, as well as providing rent and utility support as neighbors shelter in place due to continued ICE violence in the community.

Katey is a Rochester native with family and friends throughout the Twin Cities. She has been amazed by the mutual aid groups that have stepped up to care for their neighbors who are unable to leave their homes while ICE terrorizes their community. The most urgent needs are food, clothing, hygiene products and other essentials, activity kits for kids unable to attend school, and rent support while people are afraid to go to work. These groups have provided kits to over 600 young people across six twin cities school districts, direct food and critical supplies for 60 families sheltering in place and paid the rent of 10 families to keep them in their homes. These are neighbors showing up for neighbors. No questions asked.

Frank is an Excelsior native and the owner of Greenpoint’s very own Minnesota bar, Lake Street, on Manhattan Avenue. We are deeply grateful that he is contributing 10% of all event sales to support these efforts.