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Aug 26, 2021

We are each other’s safety net.

Help our 43 Neighbors lift each other up. — Today at GatherFor, we begin a grassroots effort to raise $86,000. Our goal is to provide each of the 43 Neighbors in our Brooklyn pilot with $2,000 in direct cash. These funds will help them pay rent and bills, buy food, and keep their families going while the pandemic rages…

Community

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We are each other’s safety net.
We are each other’s safety net.
Community

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Aug 20, 2021

Supporting One of Us Means Supporting All of Us

Ways to Stand with the People of Haiti and Afghanistan — “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. One of our newest Neighbor Teams at GatherFor, consisting of five mothers living in Brooklyn, has come up with the following…

Afghanistan

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Supporting One of Us Means Supporting All of Us
Supporting One of Us Means Supporting All of Us
Afghanistan

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Jun 14, 2021

What I Got Wrong: Revisions to My Post about the Blackfoot and Maslow

By Teju Ravilochan (contributing editors: Colette Kessler & Vidya Ravilochan) — “The fastest way to learn is to be slightly wrong in public.” — Patrick O’Shaughnessy In April 2021, I published a post originally titled Maslow Got It Wrong. Turns out, I got a number of things wrong in that post myself. Feedback from readers led me to digging in deeper…

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What I Got Wrong: Revisions to My Post about the Blackfoot and Maslow
What I Got Wrong: Revisions to My Post about the Blackfoot and Maslow

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Apr 4, 2021

Could the Blackfoot Wisdom that Inspired Maslow Guide Us Now?

By Teju Ravilochan (contributing editors: Vidya Ravilochan and Colette Kessler) — Author’s Note: This is a complete revision of the post originally titled “Maslow Got It Wrong.” My earlier version included inaccuracies, as some readers pointed out, like the assumption Maslow depicted his theory in a pyramid shape. I have documented and attempted to correct these errors in this companion post…

The American Dream

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Could the Blackfoot Wisdom that Inspired Maslow Guide Us Now?
Could the Blackfoot Wisdom that Inspired Maslow Guide Us Now?
The American Dream

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Mar 15, 2021

Starting with Belonging: Shifting GatherFor’s Model

By Teju Ravilochan — Over the last few years, I have been researching models that centered the experience of belonging for people as a transformative and overlooked part of addressing society and structural inequality. …

Community Organizing

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Starting with Belonging: Shifting GatherFor’s Model
Starting with Belonging: Shifting GatherFor’s Model
Community Organizing

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Jan 8, 2021

Just Give Them The Money

By Teju Ravilochan — We’re in the process of submitting a form to secure 501c3 status for GatherFor, with the help of some wonderful and supportive lawyers. One of them asked, in reading about our work, “How do you know that the people you’re giving $500 to will use it appropriately?” …

Covid 19

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Just Give Them The Money
Just Give Them The Money
Covid 19

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Jul 15, 2020

How the Powerful Co-Opt Racial Justice to Amass More Power (Part I)

By Teju Ravilochan — A New Series on the Internal Work of Justice On a recent podcast episode of On Being, Krista Tippet reflected on growing up in the sixties, when the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968 were passed. Though these laws transformed our country, she wondered why, more than 50 years later, the scenes in our streets and the discussions…

Racial Justice

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How the Powerful Co-Opt Racial Justice to Amass More Power (Part I)
How the Powerful Co-Opt Racial Justice to Amass More Power (Part I)
Racial Justice

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Jun 3, 2020

Black Lives Matter.

By Teju Ravilochan — A response to the structurally-designed separation in our country. Below is an excerpt from an email written by Gather For’s Founder Teju Ravilochan to our team. We wanted to share this publicly to add our message to the movement: Black Lives Matter. …

Black Lives Matter

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Black Lives Matter.
Black Lives Matter.
Black Lives Matter

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Jun 3, 2020

Our Beginnings

By Laura Saracho — What we’ve learned since starting GatherFor. It’s been almost two months since we began GatherFor. During a short seven weeks, we’ve created partnerships, renamed our company, engaged with and trained volunteers, talked with people in New York who are struggling to have their basic needs met, and have had long conversations about the unique value we…

Startup

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Our Beginnings
Our Beginnings
Startup

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