"This is what showing up looks like."
Bond money. Courthouse translators. Grocery bags on kitchen tables. Sanctuary shows up when the system doesn't.
The people in the room
Forty words can't hold a whole story. But they can hold a door open.
They posted my husband's bond at 11pm on a Tuesday. I didn't even know organizations like this existed. I thought we were alone.
Marisol V.
Spouse of a detained worker, Chicago
214
Bail bonds posted
since January 2024
I've been a social worker for twelve years. Sanctuary does in one phone call what takes my agency six weeks of paperwork.
Darnell O.
Child welfare social worker, Detroit
1,840
Meals delivered
to families post-release
"The interpreter showed up before I did. She already knew the judge's name. I felt held."
Fatou D.
Heard at Hennepin County Courthouse
Our local stewards voted to make Sanctuary our designated giving partner. The members wanted money that lands same-day.
Tomás R.
Union organizer, SEIU Local 26
97
Courthouse interpreters
deployed this quarter
My mother wired $200 from Accra. She said, "This is the kind of place our family needed when we arrived." That was thirty years ago.
Kwame A.
Diaspora giving circle member, Minneapolis
"I showed up to translate and stayed for three years. That's how this place works on you."
Lena K.
Volunteer interpreter, Twin Cities
89
Families reunited
after bond release
Where your money
went last quarter.
$62,700 raised. $59,600 deployed. No overhead theater. Every dollar tracked in a public ledger — link below.
95.1%
Funds directly deployed
$294
Avg. cost per family served
68% of total
18% of total
9% of total
5% of total
Recurring giving
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A garden doesn't survive on one good rain. Tenders give monthly — $15, $30, $50 — and the network knows it can count on the ground being wet. That certainty is its own kind of power.
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Monthly funds are pre-allocated so we can move in hours, not days.
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