Project Care Kit
Our 2021 Giving Tuesday Campaign is to raise money for our Feed Our People Program's Care Kit Projects:
COVID Care Kits
See below Our COVID Care Kits are designed with community need in mind, and are filled with items created by BIPOC owned businesses.
Care Kits for Unhoused Neighbors
This cross-program project between Feed Our People and the PDX Disability Justice Collaborative is specifically providing care kits to be delivered by on-the-ground outreach workers from different partner organizations. These kits are designed for folks who are currently living outside with a focus on BIPOC community members.
To donate, click the button below and select "Project Care Kit" for 100% of your donation to go toward making these care kits.
COVID Care Kits
See below Our COVID Care Kits are designed with community need in mind, and are filled with items created by BIPOC owned businesses.
Care Kits for Unhoused Neighbors
This cross-program project between Feed Our People and the PDX Disability Justice Collaborative is specifically providing care kits to be delivered by on-the-ground outreach workers from different partner organizations. These kits are designed for folks who are currently living outside with a focus on BIPOC community members.
To donate, click the button below and select "Project Care Kit" for 100% of your donation to go toward making these care kits.
About the Program
Our equity and liberation work focuses on supporting Black, Indigenous People of Color, poor folks, folks who are disabled/chronically ill, and the Queer/Trans Community. UPRISE does a lot of work through in person storytelling and belonging events, community organizing, and civic engagement education. The pandemic may have interrupted how we engaged, but we are survivors and so we adapt. We are now building community spaces of belonging online to decrease isolation, develop mutual aid networks, and build coalitions.
Feed Our People came out of the reality that many of us queer and/or trans Black, Indigenous, and people of color womxn and femmes are doing the labor to move our world toward collective liberation without much time or energy to care for ourselves. This project's goal is to recognize that labor and provide real-time basic needs (hot meals, grocery gift cards, hygiene items, and menstrual supplies) to those doing the work.
Feed Our People came out of the reality that many of us queer and/or trans Black, Indigenous, and people of color womxn and femmes are doing the labor to move our world toward collective liberation without much time or energy to care for ourselves. This project's goal is to recognize that labor and provide real-time basic needs (hot meals, grocery gift cards, hygiene items, and menstrual supplies) to those doing the work.
Meals for Organizers Project
Our meals to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color community organizers during planning and organizing sessions are provided thanks to the Feed Our People Project. UPRISE has delivered sack lunches and hot meals to community partners doing the on-the-ground organizing, coalition building, and working toward liberation for our communities. All meals provided are purchased from local, BIPOC owned catering companies or restaurants.
COVID Care Kits Project
Our Care Kits are mailed packages mailed to folks who are doing the hard work of supporting our communities in reaching liberation. These care kits are varied based on funding but include a grocery gift card, teas, soaps, affirmations, resources, menstrual supplies if requested, and/or lotions. These care kits are intended to support Black, Indigenous, and other womxn, and femme folks of color who often go underappreciated and do the vast majority of the community care needed to keep our communities going.
Funding for this project in part is from the Oregon Women's Foundation.
Funding for this project in part is from the Oregon Women's Foundation.