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Five years after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico claiming over 3,000 lives, $100 billion in damages, and the longest blackout in US history, the island finds itself once again plunged in darkness with millions of Puerto Ricans lacking access to basic services including clean water, electricity, and communications.
The brunt of the storm’s impact hit areas in the southwestern part of the island where 3,600 homes are still covered by blue tarps from Hurricane Maria five years ago, causing extensive flooding and damage. Decades of disinvestment in the island’s infrastructure alongside draconian austerity measures imposed by an undemocratic control board have decimated the island’s fragile social safety net, deepening the inequitable impact of climate related disasters. From Flint to Jackson, San Juan to New Orleans, we are reminded daily of the ways in which the toxic mix of climate change, racism, colonialism, and inequality pose an existential threat to low-income communities and communities of color across the country. We must do better.
As a racial equity organization, we stand in solidarity with the people of Puerto Rico and invite you to consider donating to the following collaborative philanthropic and community funds that are committed to investing in community led solutions to advance an equitable recovery. The FORWARD Puerto Rico Fund
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has spent the last five years supporting key nonprofit organizations and innovative projects that advocate for addressing the layered crises facing Puerto Rico in an equitable manner, while increasing the resilience of vulnerable populations on the island. Donations to the FORWARD Fund will focus on immediate relief, while supporting community organizations that contribute to moving Puerto Rico into a transparent, just, and equitable process of recovery.
Donate to the FORWARD Puerto Rico Fund
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Fiona Community Response Fund
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, a coalition of community-led organizations, is also working to address both the immediate humanitarian needs and long-term power building work to advance an equitable recovery in Puerto Rico. Powered by the Maria Fund
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and its existing infrastructure, the Fund is a partnership of approximately 25 organizations including Taller Salud, Ayuda Legal Puerto Rico, Agitarte, the Teacher’s Union, Instituto Agroecologica, Campamento Contra las Cenizas de Peñuelas, Étnica, HASER, and others.
Donate to the Fiona Community Response Fund
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