On March 29,2020, we received our first donation for our community produce drive. On March 15, we passed $50,000 raised for this project! We began by delivering shares to individual homes when we were social isolating, and then moved to the neighborhoods model. That money has gone towards:
- $44,469.02 in produce and eggs from Standard Produce and Bellair Farm CSA distributed weekly– since May of 2020, I would guess we’ve missed less than 4 weeks!
- $5835 in stipends to neighborhood partners, and to weekly drivers.
- $331.25 to our Joint Project of Work partner, Virginia Organizing who handles tax deductible donations.
- $138.31 in the bank.
This money doesn’t include separate emergency community funding that goes toward: real estate taxes, gas bills, rent— all funding that goes towards strengthening and stabilizing our community.
We don’t have to wait for permission— we can practice reparations, solidarity, redistribution of wealth, and mutual aid and support now without institutional authority or permission. I so greatly appreciate this web of love and support we are building. I appreciate how you trust me and my partners to steward money and resources appropriately and with integrity.
Thank you for your ongoing support. It was amazing to realize that our community supports this work to the tune of $50,000. It would be totally okay with me to get to $60,000 this month.
