Pepita Foundation Inc

General operating support including staff salaries and benefits, interpretation and access costs, and any materials or additional support we need to bring in to support our board or community members.

Aid for syria and turkey. Disaster-response in trkiye and syria, and saving the lives of deaf ukrainians both fleeing and surviving the war there. In addition to the war, we subsequently responded to disasters throughout the caribbean, the united states, middle east and as far east as south asia directly impacting more than 25,000 deaf, hard-of-hearing (HH), deafblind, deaf-disabled, codas, elders, and people with disabilities.

Support for three key capacity building/ general operating expense areas: (1) sins invalid's crip survival network (CSN). The CSN is a sins invalid born climate, disability, and language justice centered initiative through which unites participating organizations to strengthen and uplift each other as we face various natural and unnatural disasters affecting the lives of marginalized, bipoc and queer/trans/non-binary disabled people in the communities we serve. (2) sins invalid's 2023 performance on disability justice and climate grief: this performance will incubate and showcase innovative, original, multi-media works and theatrical pieces exploring the theme of climate crisis grief and survival from the perspective of an all-disabled, majority people of color and queer/trans/non-binary, artist ensemble. (3) sustaining staff healthcare: as an organization which centers disability justice we offer resources to our staff to adequately meet their access and healthcare needs.

Support for the uniting for entrepreneurship in maryland program. Ur action used the financial support from the pepita foundation to hire a consulting firm, bridgepeople, to help us (1) ensure that the program was implemented through a racial equity lens, and (2) contribute to program participant understanding of the interconnectedness of economic issues and race.