With just a few thousand dollars, that small family facing a terrible crisis―poor kid, barely awake in school, mourning and facing homelessness—is doing much better. Let's help this family, too! (Contact me if you're local! They've nothing. Shirts on their back situation
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Rachel Nusbaum
So true! Just a few thousand dollars at the right time can be the difference between catastrophe and a chance at stability, and yet there are so few ways to get such money to families quickly. Hence we just fundraise, address one crisis at a time.https://twitter.com/r_nusbaum/status/1091360921010741248 …
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Rachel Nusbaum @r_nusbaumThere is something very wrong with a society where the best (and perhaps only) option for families in this kind of distress is Twitter and GoFundMe. We should all help where we can, of course, but as a system this is completely unsustainable and insufficient. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1091357317130608643 …1 reply 6 retweets 27 likesShow this thread -
Halfway to goal! If you're local to CH/Durham/Raleigh and would like to help— *especially* if you have a car to sell/donate—ping me! Without transportation, mom will risk new job. Traps of poverty: a bit of help at the right time is difference between stability and catastrophe.
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Here, again, is the fundraiser. Halfway there! If you want to cheer up, read upthread on the really positive outcome of the last effort to reach out to a family in crisis. Hopefully, we can help this family, too. The kids have been through a lot.https://www.gofundme.com/mcdougle-mom-and-4-kids-facing-homelessness …
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Also if you’d like to donate a phone! Mom has an old, cracked iPhone that doesn’t really work reliably and seems beyond repair. Easy enough if you’re local but can be mailed, too. Ping me!
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Less than a thousand dollars to go for our goal. TBH, this is family has a real chance at stability—mom has gotten a decent job (starting in a few weeks)—but immediate needs are great. Car, phone, furniture, clothes for kids... They have very very little.https://www.gofundme.com/mcdougle-mom-and-4-kids-facing-homelessness …
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Replying to @zeynep
Family Promise in Raleigh might be a good resource. They specialize in providing support to homeless* families, helping them return to stability. *or 'precarious'https://www.familypromisewake.org/
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Thank you! We have a social worker on the case will pass this along, too. The problem here is the crisis is immediate but what help is available is rarely quick enough. Trying to keep the kids in the same Chapel Hill school district, too―they have been through enough upheaval.
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Family Promise might be able to move quickly because they deliver service primarily through affiliated church congregations. It's like neighbor-helping-neighbor with professional support. Family Promise Wake Co. would need to use a congregation close to Chapel Hill
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Replying to @MrMeritology @zeynep
FYI I was a Board Member for a similar organization, formerly affiliated with Family Promise.
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Awesome. Sharing this with the small team, including the social worker, who's been focusing on the emergency.
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