Donate to Support Our Work

Organizing for systemic change is longterm work, and we rely heavily on community donors to sustain our work for the long haul. Your donations are unlike grant funding, which require significant staff work in application and reporting requirements, must be used up in a given time period, and often carry restrictions in how we spend the funds. 

In addition to supporting our campaign work, community donations have allowed us to grow our organization and the leadership of our community by:

• Organizing mutual aid projects to engage and recruit community members to our work, including weekly tabling outside 6th District courthouse, the Community Court Debt Fund, longterm participatory defense for community members in the court system, and regular letter writing to incarcerated Rhode Islanders
• Expanding political education and organizing training for member-leaders, including sending directly impacted people to national conferences and trainings across the country; launching our own Men’s and Women’s and Nonbinary groups focused on gender justice and support for BIPOC, system-impacted people; and expanding our DARE Leadership Institute offerings, which cover systems of oppression and organizing skills. 
• Hiring three new system-impacted organizers from our membership, two of who are formerly incarcerated.
• Starting out all staff with a living wage of $25/hour.
• Developing and recruiting impacted members to join our Board of Directors. 9 of 11 identify as BIPOC and 8 are directly impacted by incarceration and housing insecurity.

Sign up today to sustain our community as a monthly donor!