Heading to Costco to buy protestor & community aid supplies.

If you're one of the 20,000 white people in my mentions who "just wish they could do something" venmo or cash app me a few bucks (@/$mitchgayns and I'll post receipts after the drops.

Update, first 1500$ out!

Another run on the way around a thousand or so of target and dollar tree supplies to medics and protesters!

Another 1500 in food & supplies going out now, then a few more runs this afternoon and evening to restock medical.

1500 more out in aid. Going to reload and get another several thousand of medical and hardware out before curfew. Stay safe out there everyone.

Got another 2k out before lockdown. Hard hats, plywood, medical supplies, flashlights, sanitizer, masks, gloves (and fireproof gloves!) and more all distributed!

You guys donated so much that we're meeting with some larger orgs tomorrow to help get this out faster, thank you!

Hope is to get about another 8k or so out tomorrow through some of the orgs I'm connecting with and use the rest toward more food Bank restock, med supplies and @MNFreedomFund funds if we got stuff left over!

Recent receipt pics attached!

Lastly documenting here, as a receipt but didn't want to post a screen cap with ID in it, just sent $500 over to an organizer in North side Minneapolis for tomorrow's food drive via a connection at @RISEsisterhood!

Sharing a cool project I was just put onto. Donated a few hundred from what we've raised but feel free to spread and share to help get them to their goal.

Direct therapy services for those affected here in Twin Cities. https://twitter.com/Narwhalgian/status/1266450745085366274?s=19

Receipt:

"They have bulk face shields at Sam's Club right now, no limit. I've been buying and delivering about 150 a day with collected donations. Costco might have them as well. They also have facemask but it is one per person."

I just venmo'd $500 to this person, for shields.

This is from a local organizer here in MN, Will post a receipt when they share one with me, but documenting here as $$ go out so that people know where their money's going.

Will share their venmo here for another donation contact if it's cool with them.

Another $1800 in homedepot supplies heading out to University Rebuild a collective of theater set builders near the protests that are helping board up businesses and clean up the sidewalks.

& 200 ish more on extension cords I had to go back for

Boards, tools, & more!

Latest (probably last before curfew) run of $1k in diapers, hygiene products and more over to the North Side via a black owned business downtown who's helping coordinate distributions!

From last night:

Heading out to do plenty more today starting with a food drive for students in need, following up with black owned businesses we've connected with and restocking medical wherever we can! https://twitter.com/each1teach1sg/status/1267102239425953792?s=19

$1500. Ore in hygiene goods and food for a school who's students and families have store access and another 500$ in diapers.

Fully loaded and on the road for day 3 of our efforts to supply, heal and help this eon the front lines including medics, protestors and community orgs!

Another $500 out towards hotel rates for unhoused people after Nat Guard and police swept away homeless encampment under the guise of "enforcing curfew" last night.

Will likely send more later in the day just need to see what we'll have available.

Running plywood from a local theater to a nearby school to help board up the windows and talked to the principal to put him in touch with 4 nearby food drives for his students and families.

More supplies and food being run over to a group who calls themselves the Minnesota Avengers who's organizing all over the Twin Cities!

Also a middle eastern man with 3 kids claimed he needed gas money to get home to Toronto after losing his backback/laptop phone & wallet.

Hard to tell if he was legit or not but we our here helping everyone so I said fuck it and gave him a few hundo to get home.

He promised to contact me when he got home and repay me but something tells me that's unlikely.

Felt like the right thing to do anyway. Black and Brown folks gotta look out for each other and if he scammed me karma will get him back.

Did give me a VERY light gold chain tho

Another 800 out to Pimento x ABEP Partnership, likely with more to come for them. They're the bad ass Jamaican Rum Bar that's black owned and organizing everything from defense to food and diapers on the Northside of Minneapolis.

Couple more from our street corner drop off last hour.

$500 more to a fund renting hotel rooms for the unhoused or displaced.

(can't believe hotels are charging people given the circumstances to be honest).

Seeing as backpacks have been a big need (everyone is on foot and needs to be able to carry so much) we just order 300 drawstring backpacks to distribute later this week when they arrive. Til then we'll keep buying Costco out of those dope ADIDAS ones we found though!