Please be part of keeping our storefront open as an awesome collaborative space of mutual aid and community building!
Please help us pay rent so we can continue to grow as a hub for mutual aid in Great Falls
Organized by Finders Collective
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Campaign Update
about 1 year ago
3/13/2024
Please consider becoming a monthly sustainer, or making a one time donation, and maybe encouraging a friend to do the same.
We are expecting some major organizational changes in the coming months: The Pioneer Valley Worker’s Center will no longer be subleasing the space on 4th street, and they will be discontinuing their monthly food distribution in May of this year. Their last distro will be May 17th. We are aware of the major impact this will have on folks who rely on the food distro for pantry staples and fresh foods for their families. It is a huge loss to our community!
This also means that the costs for rent, utilities, and wifi will dramatically increase for Finders and Great Falls Books through Bars, which are both run entirely on volunteer efforts, a few micro-grants, and crowd-funding.
We’ve enjoyed sharing this storefront with the folks from PVWC and we really appreciate all the work that went into making the food distro happen! We are hoping to connect with other programs and resources so that we can still access and provide free, nutritious, and delicious foods for our community moving forward. If you know of a project that focuses on producing or distributing food for free, we want to hear from you!
We will need to make up for a significant source of funding in order to pay the rent for our storefront, and make other awesome things happen here!
This is possible. And you can help! If just 50 more folks contributed $10 a month to our givebutter, this could secure rent for both GFBTB and the Finders Collective for the next year!
Additionally, if you have ideas for fundraising, events and benefits shows, you can reach out to us, and that means a lot too.
Thank you, dear friends, for your continued support of this project and all the endeavors which take place at our community center on 4th street.
Whether you have volunteered during open hours, if you’ve hosted or attended an event in our space, donated to the free store, shared our fliers, or made a financial contribution to our fundraising campaign, you are a part of what makes this all possible.
AS a reminder: We have open hours Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 3-6pm, during which you can visit the free store, check out books from our library, or just drop-in and hang out! We would love to see you there. Stay tuned for more events and projects in the works... a seed swap, film screenings, our tool library, and more!
