Dear ,
Our affiliate members are on the frontlines of a challenge like none we have faced in our lifetimes. Health aides, restaurant workers, grocery workers and delivery workers are now deemed essential, but many are excluded from federal relief. This exclusion heavily impacts Black, Brown, and immigrant communities who are the vast majority being exploited within this crisis and across the system.
Black people—only 12% of the population—account for 42% of virus-related deaths in the U.S. And in New York City, Latinx residents are dying at the highest rates, according to the Associated Press1 and the New York Times.2 These are the individuals who are still going to work every day driving our buses, cleaning our streets, stocking food and caring for our elderly, or who have lost their jobs and aren’t getting government support.
CPD has launched the Community Solidarity Fund to provide critical relief to the essential communities most impacted by this crisis. We’re also joining the call on social media asking people to use the hashtag #ShareMyCheck to encourage others to give as well. Click here to donate now to our Community Solidarity Fund.
Black, Brown, and working-class people––the communities who are the backbone of the CPD Network and this nation––are already subject to systemic ills that have led to economic disadvantages and inadequate health care in poor communities and communities of color, making them more vulnerable to COVID-19. Further, immigrant workers have been declared essential, meaning they must risk their lives daily, yet they are almost completely excluded from response and relief efforts to date.
Will you #ShareMyCheck with the Community Solidarity Fund to support those most impacted by the pandemic?
From immigrants who are ineligible for unemployment or stimulus checks, to Black and Brown communities doing much of the work newly-deemed as “essential,” and low-income people who don’t have income or bank accounts and won’t receive a stimulus check, these are the families left behind by the government’s emergency relief and malevolent leadership. That’s where the Community Solidarity Fund comes in.
So far, we’ve raised almost $300,000 from 50,000 small donors—and made 11 emergency grants to communities at the epicenters of the pandemic from New York to Detroit to New Orleans and beyond. Gifts to the Community Solidarity Fund help grassroots organizations provide cash assistance, food, groceries, and other basic needs to the most impacted members of our communities—and bolster their ability to fight for the policies our communities need most in this crisis moment. We’re asking supporters like you to help us by pledging to share some of your own resources with those who need it most right now.
We need your help to raise $100,000 more in the next week to support more emergency grants—will you pledge to give and post #ShareMyCheck?
For years, our affiliates have been rooted in these frontline communities and have been organizing to win paid sick leave, access to healthcare, worker protections, and economic and racial justice. Today, our organizations are struggling to meet the overwhelming needs of our communities.
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