Help us buy food & preserve network infrastructure
Replace crucial medical foods and help us maintain disability aid access
Food
Of the essential medical foods that were lost for lack of refrigeration when the freezers defrosted during our Pittsburgh electrical outage, $500 worth has not been paid for yet.
(Read here and here about the necessity of specific foods to support safe digestion for me and others with complex physical conditions.)
The food source was especially kind to let us post-date a check at our last pickup, but to support the needs of that food source, that payment must go through before we can buy more.
Another $500 buys us replacement foods so that we can ensure I and our group members can be fed.
Because of the generosity of paid subscribers and readers who have made investments and donations to help us out, we've got $200 of this.
We are seeking out and welcoming in $800 more to cover the post-dated check and a new purchase to prevent us running out of food — as we are quickly nearing the end of what remains.
Infrastructure
We've gone through the base digital infrastructure for the Intuitive Network and trimmed it down to the barest possible survival minimum.
10th–16th May: $250 (done!)
These parts of our base digital infrastructure keep communication, writing, and planning tools online — disability aid functions that let us talk to each other, make decisions, and keep recovery work moving.
If we lose it, colleagues get cut off; coordination stalls; emergency supports break down. (I likely would not be able to post here.)
Maintaining it lets us keep working to get solutions in place... and keeps a lot of people alive. Including me.
With your help we've achieved $75 of this $250 block.
We are seeking out and welcoming in the remaining $175 to preserve this infrastructure and our function through to May 16th.
Update: Got this piece! Food funds crucially needed next (details at top of page).
Can you help us out?
Here's a link to contact information and more donations information for our 508c1a non-profit organization.
In any way that I and we can support you in return for your generosity, please say.
Building true relationships is the most important part of all of this. We want you to have your needs met too.
From our hearts to yours, thank you.