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Indigenous Lifeways and local organizations are collaborating to gain funding to help our at-risk elders and families within
Our Partners for McKinley Mutual Aid
McKinley Mutual Aid
Your support and contributions will enable us to meet our community needs during this COVID-19 health crisis. Your generous donation will fund our mission and bring food and supplies to elders and families in McKinley County.
Total Fundraised with PayPal- $78,652.92
*Updated 11/19/2020
100% of funds are being used for materials and gas money. 0% overhead--all volunteer!
Our Donors for McKinley Mutual Aid
McKinley Mutual Aid
Community Care Packages
Welcome, Yá'át'ééh , Hola, Keshi,
McKinley Mutual Aid is a collaborative effort among the following organizations:
- Indigenous Lifeways
- Strengthening Nations
- New Mexico Social Justice and Equity Institute
- McKinley Community Health Alliance
- First United Methodist Church
We are an intertribal, interfaith, and interracial group of volunteers. As leaders of community-based nonprofits, we have a strong pre-existing network that allows us to quickly organize and establish a relatively immediate supply chain, production and dissemination. Each nonprofit is contributing to grant writing/fundraising, supply chain, compilation of boxes and/or distribution of food, water, wood, PPE and other supplies.
MMA prioritizes the following groups:
- Elderly
- Immune compromised
- Those living in uranium contaminated areas, and/or without running water
- Single Parents, Households with DV
- Immigrants and Unsheltered Relatives
- THE LAST MILE
McKinley Mutual Aid Accomplishments:
Outreach Highlights
4,569 families received a McKinley Mutual Aid Community Care packages!
In collaboration with World Central Kitchen and MMA, 2,600 families received a food kit with the help of MMA food trucks and volunteers.
In total, MMA has reached 7,169 families!
In collaboration with C.O.R.E Response and MMA, we have delivered 6,136 hygiene/sanitize kits.
A total of 3881.5 Volunteer Hours logged!!
MMA Update on Phase II
Con Alma Health Foundation has granted MMA $40k to create a Community Covid-19 Gap Analysis and help MMA with organizational development.
MMA will be holding Community Town Halls in early 2021.
Please email krystal@ourindigenouslifeways.org if you would like to be involved.
MMA Fundraising Highlights
- Raised over $305,364.82 in Grants and Private Donors ($10k-Seventh Generation, $10k NDN Collective, 15k Decolonizing Wealth, 5k New Mexico Women, $10k Javier Martinez, $24k Paypal, $2k-Indigenous Lifeways, $1k-First Born [soon to be $5k] 5k-Private Donor, 30k Tarbell Charitable Fund, Recognition of Vanessa Roanhorse 4k-Cornerstones, 64k- C.O.R.E, 3k-Sisters of Mercy Recognition Sister Martha, 10k-Notah Begay III Foundation Re: Crownpoint Coivd-19 Relief Effort, 10k New Mexico Foundation, 20k Con Alma Health Foundation, $1,008 Hanuman Foundation, $3K Jewish Foundation of New Mexico, $1K Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona, $4,749.90 Partners in Community Action, $10k Ballatine Foundation, $925 Network for Good, $1k Your Cause, $4,2420 COPE, $100 Capital City Lions Club, $7,500 Presbyterian Mission, Self Development of People, $5K PRBB Foundation, $800 Mailed donations )
- Over 300 individuals have donated to our Paypal fundraiser which totals to OVER 78K!!!!
- Con Alma Health Foundation has granted MMA $40k to create a Community Covid-19 Gap Analysis and help MMA with organizational development.
- 20k Cliff Bars in collaboration with Peter Stetina and Silver Stallion Bicycle & Coffee Works
- Received a few truckloads of donations from Toh-Atin Clothing Drive in Durango,Co! Thank you to everyone involved for helping our unsheltered relatives and families on Navajo and Zuni Reservations!
- 710+ Masks from Constance Parng and the Auntie Sewing Group, 500+ on the way!!!
- 100 Masks from Brenda H.
- 50+ Masks from Willcita C.
- 12 boxes- 12ct of Tanka Bars from The Seventh Generation Fund.
- 1000 masks from Melinda.
- 1300+ masks from Pueblo Action Alliance
Impact Highlights
- In March, Chopped, hauled and delivered 5 truck loads of wood
- in April, Procured 5 large truck loads (Uhauls) of food, water and baby supplies.
- To date, McKinley Mutual Aid has established its own supply chain through Ben E Keith (and Pueblo Fruits), along with other local indigenous farmers, including Ben Farms and White Mountain Apache Ndee Bikiyaa (The People’s Farm).
- Established local partnerships with businesses, Glenn's Bakery and T&R Market, to help procure food for our community care packages.
- Receiving Referrals from GIMC Social Workers.
Partner Highlights
- Collaborated with Strengthening Nations and the United Methodist Church of Gallup to utilize their church as a distribution and storage center.
- Partnered with First Born, Growing in Beauty and Avenues Early Childhood, Navajo Nation WIC (Crownpoint and Gallup Offices) to distribute baby supplies to families.
- At our peak, McKinley Mutual Aid produces 250 40-lb food boxes per week, designed to feed a family for approximately 5+ days. World Central Kitchen matched MMA production by supplying 200 produce and 200 dry food item boxes every week, which MMA then distributes to communities most in need from June- August 2020.
- 8K worth of First Aid Kits donated by NMSJEI.
100% of funds are used for materials and gas money.
0% overhead--all volunteer!
McKinley Mutual Aid Information
Contact MMA by
Emailing:
Krystal@ourindigenouslifeways.org
Requests are based on capability, supplies, and funding.
Donation Information
All Checks should be addressed to
Indigenous Lifeways
#259 2418 E. Historic Hwy 66 Gallup, NM 87301
Media Coverage for Mckinley Mutual Aid
USA TODAY
USA TODAY
USA TODAY
Deadly Discrimination
26-OCT-2020 by Dennis Wagner, and Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY
USA TODAY
USA TODAY
USA TODAY
On the Navajo Nation, COVID-19 death toll is higher than any US state. Here's how you can support community relief.
24-OCT-2020 by Wyatte Grantham-Philips & Jasper Colt USA TODAY
USA TODAY
USA TODAY
New Mexico In Depth
COVID deaths of Native Americans linked to limited access to resources and healthcare
20-OCT-2020 by Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Dennis Wagner & Jasper Colt USA TODAY
New Mexico In Depth
The Rockefeller Foundation Announcements
New Mexico In Depth
Mutual aid groups rushed to the rescue during COVID-19
By Elizabeth Miller, New Mexico In Depth | September 28, 2020
New Mexico First Newsletter
The Rockefeller Foundation Announcements
The Rockefeller Foundation Announcements
Newsletter: Responding to COVID19 as a Community, June 8, 2020
19-JUN-2020 by New Mexico First
The Rockefeller Foundation Announcements
The Rockefeller Foundation Announcements
The Rockefeller Foundation Announcements
CORE Expands Covid-19 Testing and Support Services for The Navajo Nation and White Mountain Apache Tribe with Support from The Rockefeller Foundation
6/18/2020
Censored News
University of New Mexico- Gallup News
University of New Mexico- Gallup News
Navajo Volunteers race with food and water, as governments fail during pandemic
6/18/2020 by Brenda Norrell
University of New Mexico- Gallup News
University of New Mexico- Gallup News
University of New Mexico- Gallup News
Called to a New Mission: Local Veterans, Nonprofits Lead Local Relief Efforts for Elders & Families in Need.
5/27/2020 by UNM Gallup News
Gallup Independent Newspaper
University of New Mexico- Gallup News
Gallup Independent Newspaper
Providing Mutual Aid: Collaborative volunteer group merges amid pandemic
5/112020 by Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola
Ms. Magazine
Ms. Magazine
Gallup Independent Newspaper
Earth Day, Ecofeminism and Racial Injustice in the Year of the Plague, COVID-19
4/22/2020 by Heidi Hutner