Rent For Moms (R4M) is a grassroots fundraising initiative led by Black women and other marginalized genders that centers the family, redistributes resources and places agency where it belongs – with the Moms.

Though white and non-Black folks are often eager to give money around the holidays, this campaign moves beyond saviorism. R4M challenges systemic issues that maintain the need for feel-good campaigns like toy drives, all the way back to their sources. By putting cash directly in the hands of Black moms across the country, R4M will help subvert oppressive and predatory economic systems stacked against Black MaGes, and ensure that each family has the agency they deserve & are owed this holiday season.

Decolonize Abundance is a Reparations and Food Justice Project.

Our Cashless Reparations platform seeks to connect Black organizers and their communities to direct reparations from white people in the form of items and services. This includes the educational and consulting services provided by our Food Justice Project.

Those who join and give in our networks must commit to our Mission and agree to follow our Community Agreements in order to create the safest space possible for the Black and brown communities we serve.

Along with reparations, we seek to educate white members of our project and our public following on deconstructing white supremacy, capitalism, consumerism, paternalism and other forms of both social and economic marginalization. This includes the educational and consulting services provided by our farm.

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Since 2016, DiDi Delgado has facilitated a class called “Dismantling Racism … And The Other Isms.” The protests of Summer 2020 awakened another wave of white people starting anti-racism book clubs, posting on social media and joining local protests. However, there still remains a disconnect between white people’s anti-racism education and material benefits for Black and Brown communities.

This is lifelong learning, but when white people begin their anti-racism education or activism, they often cause more harm by not following Black leadership and trying to find quick fixes to Black liberation. This class has been essential learning for white and non-Black folks who are practicing showing up in anti-racism work with material support and meaningful action.

The course content includes: creating an anti-racism action plan; bystander intervention; speaking up in the workplace; co-creating anti-racism workforce teams; and directly supporting Black organizations and people with money and labor. Class participants learn through the informed perspectives of people with lived intersectional identities (Black, Femmes, non-men, LGBTQIA, GNC, and people living with chronic illness).

This course directly strengthens anti-racist movement building, and we ask participants to follow the class with ongoing participation in our Facebook community: Done For DiDi - White Labor Collective (WLC). Through our community approach to learning and direct giving, we are increasing the likelihood that white people - particularly women, femmes, and non-binary individuals in the US - will stay in this work for the long haul, reduce the harm they cause and more effectively disrupt institutions of oppression.

Craft Fair: Hosted by the Crafty Circle Project Squad, the Done For DiDi Seasonal Markets provide another way to pay reparations: through art! Makers of all kinds donate items to be sold to benefit the projects and programs of Done For DiDi. The Crafty Circle Squad makes special efforts to find Black artists and creators to offer them a platform for sales via the Done For DiDi Seasonal Markets.

Crafty Circle: The Crafty Circle is a crafting squad, centered around the Done For DiDi WLC Community Agreements. Members meet bi-weekly to brainstorm, craft, and workshop projects. These folks are creators and crafters at varying capacities and skill sets, working with various mediums. The goals of this squad include amplifying Black creators & crafters, crafting for reparations, and building anti-racist community. Some events the Crafty Circle has hosted include Done For DiDi’s Fall & Winter Craft Fairs. We aim to find more ways to share skills and resources around crafting and creating.