Since 2018, the Cambridge Modern Quilt Guild has raffled off a quilt to benefit youth interested in attending gather here's fiber camps. We are pleased to announce that this partnership continues and like previous years, we will match up to $1,500 in raffle ticket sales to help young folks in the community learn to sew, quilt, and more this summer. We are so freakin' excited to share this opportunity with all of you to win a beautiful handmade quilt and to help coordinate applications. The CMQG will be at the 6th Annual Inman Eats AND Crafts event on Sunday, May...

Our March 1, 2023 newsletter brought in some great suggestions for this year's We Care Wednesday recipients. Many thanks to Joy, a gather here workshop participant, for reaching out to tell us about Lakota YouthStay, an enriched homestay program with Native youth from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and Eastern Massachusetts host families engaging in a variety of shared activities of interest over the course of 8 days in July. The mission of Lakota YouthStay is to build authentic, mutually rewarding and sustainable friendships between Native and non-Native people with the goal of inspiring hope and creating cultural...

The vision for Neighborhood Birth Center (NBC) is rooted in the belief that people should have access to a full range of pregnancy care and birthing options. They believe that birth is a sacred process, and when the pregnant person is centered, the experience has the power to transform and heal individuals, families, and communities. NBC's mission is to offer comprehensive midwifery care throughout pregnancy, labor, birth, and the postpartum period in a safe and comfortable community-based setting. Families who are seeking a safe alternative to hospitals, can birth here, supported by midwives, doulas, and family. Centered on a midwifery...

Like many members of the Asian/Asian-American Pacific Islander community, we are reeling from the violence and murders that occurred around the Lunar New Year. In an effort to hold the community close, we have chosen an organization that prioritizes coalition building and mutual aid. Red Canary Song is a grassroots collective of Asian & Migrant Sex Workers and allies, organizing transnationally and based in Flushing, NYC. They began organizing in a fight for justice and police accountability, after the death of flushing massage worker, Yang song, who was killed during a police raid in December 2017. With over 9000 workplaces...

We are so excited to be continuing this initiative in 2023! Last year we donated over $15,000 to various nonprofits and mutual aid organizations thanks to your generosity. Whenever you make a purchase on Wednesday (in the store or online) we donate 5% of the day's profits to that month's recipient. In the last couple of years we have been working with Aeolidia on our email marketing and they encouraged us to incentivize less engaged customers by offering some reward. Most businesses do a discount code, we chose to donate 5% of the sale to the We Care Wednesday fund,...