Causes to Donate to in Minnesota to Help Our Communities Defend Themselves from ICE
This list is now available/shareable at standwithminnesota.org
*Note: I am from Minnesota, and these come from people I know or I am connected with. I cannot vouch for all the individual GoFundMes, but it is up to you to decide where to give. If you have something to add please DM me at @ziibiing.com on BlueSky, I update it often.
Buy/Donate Materials:
- Help buy dashcams for legal observers
- Bethel Church Food Pantry
- TC Food Justice: Donate food
- Academias de la Paz Food Drive
Food Support
- MiCasa: Feeding vulnerable people in Shakopee
- Despensas (Hope Church Food Drive Fund) Volunteer to do drop offs
- Fe y Justicia: Helping feed Immigrants in Central MN
- Joyce Uptown Food Shelf
- CANDO: Rent, Food and Rides in Central Neighborhood (Tick the box to direct your donation to the care team)
Rent Relief Funds:
- Rent Relief Fund for Southside Families
- Colectiva Bilingüe’s shared rent relief fund
- Rent Relief for MPS Families
- Rent Support for Bancroft Families
Mutual Aid Funds:
- Lyndale School Mutual Aid Fund
- CANMN: Community Aid Network (CANMN) is a grassroots volunteer-led organization located in the Bancroft neighborhood of Minneapolis, MN. We work to build solidarity with our neighbors, organize volunteers and redistribute resources to ensure everyone has the means for dignified survival.
- Pow Wow Grounds Coffee Shop, venmo @powwowgrounds. A pit stop for observers and hub for the Indigenous community in South Minneapolis. They are also looking for donations of Tobacco, blankets, hand warmers, whistles, coffee, air mattresses
- Indigenous Protector Movement
- Neighbors Helping Neighbors Mutual Aid Fund
GoFundMes
(I am only including campaigns that haven’t met their goals):
Individuals:
- Alexander Erazo (Struggling for Funding)
- Mauricio Serrano (Attacked at Speedway)
- IFCW Member Ivan Gomez
- Support Ely & Her Children
- Support Felix
- Ike Muringai: Detained by ICE
- Bring Our Mother Home
- Help Our Neighbor
- Para poder sacar a mi esposo que fue detenido por ice
- Support Juan-Carlos After Assault
- Support Gerardo & His Family
- Help keep a single mother and her baby safe from ICE
Funds for Schools:
- Support South High School Students
- Support Twin Cities families in Crisis: Metro Surge
- Support for Language Sprout
Funds for Employees:
Funds for Communities:
- Support Powderhorn Families (Area where the shooting happened)
- Helping Longfellow
- Support Near North Families Affected by ICE Raids
- Show love to North Minneapolis families in crisis
Organizations Doing Work On The Ground:
- Immigrant Law Center of MN: The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota (ILCM) is a nonprofit organization that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in Minnesota and North Dakota. ILCM provides services based on our capacity. ILCM has a generally high demand for services. Unfortunately, we may not always be able to assist someone. If we cannot assist you, we will refer you to another trusted organization or immigration attorney.
- COPAL MN: COPAL, Communities Organizing Latine Power and Action, is a member-based organization established in 2018 to improve the quality of life of Latine families. Over the past six years, COPAL has evolved to become a well-known, grassroots power-building, and visionary transnational organization.
- UNIDOS MN: Unidos MN is a grassroots organization that builds power with Minnesota’s working families to advance social, racial, and economic justice for all. Born from the strength of the DREAMER movement, we place immigration, education, and climate justice at the heart of our work. As an intersectional and intergenerational organization led by women and multiracial communities, we unite people from all backgrounds to fight for a future where everyone can thrive—no exceptions.
- MIRAC: MIRAC is an all-volunteer, grassroots, multiracial, and multinational immigrant rights mass-movement organization. MIRAC fights for legalization for all, an end to immigration raids and deportations, an end to all anti-immigrant laws, and full equality in all areas of life.
- SWOP: Support Sex Workers Impacted by ICE Presence
Events:
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