5/7/2021 Foundry Giving Friday: Rebellion Relief Fund

• Posted on 2 May 2021
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Every Friday The Foundry Home Goods donates 5% of our total sales to a different community-nominated small-and-mighty cause. This Friday's Foundry Giving Friday recipient? Rebellion Relief Fund!

Rebellion Relief Fund is a Minneapolis-based Mutual Aid organization focused specifically on connecting Black and Brown mothers, caregivers, and their children with crucial supplies and targeted support. 

Put simply, Mutual Aid is community-led support of community. Powered by the people, for the people, Mutual Aid is a means of offering a sort of lateral solidarity outside the limitations of plagued and/or paternalistic systems. Founded by holistic healer Zedé Harut, Rebellion Relief Fund became a resource for the Black and Brown community within the Twin Cities area shortly after the murder of George Floyd. Where protests (and accompanying violent state-sanctioned backlash) were and are occurring is largely residential—there are dense populations of Black and Brown families, mothers, caregivers and children, living through the uprising without safe access to bare essentials. 

In the immediate aftermath, Rebellion Relief Fund gathered residents in the community to come together and volunteer to pick up and drop off food and items to the mothers that had no transportation to the donation sites and stores, take them to the pharmacy for prescription pickup, and more. Then, as resources became more inaccessible for these families, and COVID-19 and state curfews made things more restricted, they started their Mutual Aid fund to channel any additional relief exactly where it needs to go.

Now we are here. Until systems are dismantled and retooled to truly serve us all, this is a simple, clear-cut way to ensure that mothers and their children are connected with the tools and resources they need to survive. Happy Mother's Day!

Thank you to Christy for the nomination!

We are pleased and proud to support this excellent, necessary work, this Giving Friday and always. If you don't need anything from us, consider donating to Rebellion Relief Fund directly.

If you DO find yourself in need of something for YOUR mama or something to treat yourself, know that your purchase goes to support good change happening on the community level.

If YOU have a worthy cause to nominate for our Foundry Giving Friday initiative, pop on over to our Nomination Page and drop us a line. We're all in this together.