Black joy is in season! You can help plant a seed of self-care for single moms and their families.

#DoneForDiDi’s Restore National and a team of leading community organizers are raising at least $40,000 to help single Black moms retain or obtain housing. Rent for Moms will help moms pay rent in cities across the US, each inundated with their own set of inequities: from Boston (MA) and Portland (OR) to Binghamton (NY), Oklahoma City (OK), Houston, Dallas, and Fort Worth (TX), to Cleveland (OH) and Washington, DC.

When Black moms are supported, Black communities are supported. Black women are the driving force in keeping generations of families and neighborhoods together.

As spring cleaning sweeps in, check under the couch cushions, in the pockets of your winter coat, and that cute purse from last season - all those found coins can add up fast to help a family stay housed for Mother’s Day. This radical campaign moves beyond saviorism and places the agency in the hands of the experts. When housing is not a stressor, people are able to secure better jobs and build better family and community connections.

Decades of discrimination in employment, housing, lending, and the justice system have left Black moms struggling to make ends meet.
4 out of 10 people who are unhoused in the US are Black. The average family without housing in the US is a single parent household headed by an African-American woman.
In Boston specifically, rent consumes “about 71% of income in Black neighborhoods but just 35% in White communities,” according to a Forbes study.
In 2021 nationwide , the typical white household had 9.2 times as much wealth as the typical Black household – $250,400 vs. $27,100. (Pew Research)

The Solution

“We’re inviting individuals, community groups, and businesses to make a spring pledge to raise funds for Rent for Moms. For so many of us, connecting to the land and our homes through gardening and spring cleaning is an essential piece of self-care. It allows us to create beauty and hope in our surroundings. Our team wants to provide meaningful community care so these families experience that respite.” @TheDiDiDelgado

Working together with other Black organizers, in 2022 we were able to create and move resources in a big way, raising more than $100,000 in just 46 days. In winter 2023, we raised over $60,000 and will raise at least $40,000 this spring!

Ways to Donate

Donate online with card, venmo or PayPal and help secure housing so families can experience joy on their own terms.
Donate to a specific location by crediting a local community organizer when you make your donation.
Donate by check!

Become a Rent for Moms team member!

How? Click on the +Fundraise button near the top of this page to set up your own Rent For Moms giving page and fundraising goal right here on Givebutter. All donations raised by team members are automatically added to the overall fundraising goal!

Once you've done that, it's time to start sharing on social media.

Create an original fundraising post on your own page.
Use language and images from the campaign, or put your own spin on it (see the R4M toolkit for guidance).
Tag a few friends in the post or the comments.
Set your post to PUBLIC so we can boost it!

Join the White Labor Collective

The White Labor Collective is a membership community designed for non-Black accomplices committed to dismantling systemic racism. In exchange for a monthly subscription fee, members gain access to a wealth of resources, including educational materials, expert-led webinars, and workshops that dive deep into the intricacies of institutional, individual, ideological, and interpersonal racism. The community provides a supportive environment for learning and growth, allowing members the space to make mistakes as they deepen their understanding of racial justice.

If you aren’t already a member, join our radical community! Cuz reparations are for Earth Day, Tax Day, Mother’s Day, Passover, Easter, Solstice, and every day in between.

Restore National engages in Black liberation work through a reparations lens. Our team provides resources and funds to those living at the intersections of anti-Blackness, sexism, classism, queerphobia and ableism, while providing hands-on antiracism and social justice education to non-Black people.

Restore National, Inc. is a 501c3 community organization.

Donations are tax exempt to the extent allowable by law.

Rent For Moms

Each of us needs a stable place to grow, bloom, and soak in the warmth and light of the spring sunshine. Rent for Moms offers that soft landing place to moms across the nation.