Before you give
We ask everyone who Joins the Flock to make a matching gift to a BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) land project in your area*, or to our neighbor project WILDSEED. It is important to factor in your matching gift when deciding how much to give to Linke Fligl! To learn more about why we are including reparations giving in this campaign, read more below.
Want some guidance on how much to give? See below for our giving guide!
WHAT YOUR 2022 FUNDING MAKES POSSIBLE
Integrating LF’s Transition
by ceasing food production starting this fall, transitioning our infrastructure and belongings to new homes, and holding rituals of celebration and release.
Gleaning the Learnings
in the hopes that they can serve others building toward liberatory and land-based Jewish futures. Some examples of this include creating infographics and educational tools to share LF’s theory of change, as well as releasing a short film on land connection and land reparations.
Seeding New Futures
by passing on the Fligl Flock to new stewards, helping to seed new backyard flocks with our chickens, and supporting emerging queer Jewish land projects.
making your match gift
Join the Flock grassroots fundraiser is an experiment in embodying values of class transparency and reparations.
How match gifts work:
We ask that everyone who donates to LF make a matching gift to a BIPOC-led land project near you* or to our neighbor project WILDSEED! In addition, 5% of all gifts go to Schaghticoke First Nations as part of LF’s Native land tax.
For example:
If you give $100 to LF, we ask that at the same time you give $100 to a BIPOC-led land reparations project near you* or to WILDSEED. In addition, we will put $5 of your gift will go toward our native land tax.
Why match gifts:
We believe that Black and Indigenous liberation on land is required for collective freedom. LF wants to resource this work as a community for lots of reasons, including:
the American Jewish community as a whole has benefited off of land and labor stolen from Black and Brown folks
Black, Brown and Indigenous Jews deserve to be invested in
reparations are necessary for all of our collective healing!
“Our movements don't need more cash, we need repaired relationships to money that belonged to those who were systematically marginalized in the first place.” -Veronica Garcia
We all have a stake in shifting resources more equitably.
Stepping into resourcing this work individually and as an LF community is one step toward that repair.
*Reparations Map created by Soul Fire Farm and Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust
giving guide
Class is complicated! We encourage you to use this guide as a reference, and to tune into what a meaningful gift means to you. We are truly humbled by every dollar we receive.
Please factor in your matching gift when deciding how much to give to Linke Fligl!
If you’d like support thinking about how to give to Join the Flock and a BIPOC land project, please reach out to fundraising@linkefligl.com.
egg | $5-$59
Working class background and/or income ~ <$20k/year
CHICK | $5 / month
Working class background and/or income ~ <$20k/year
WISHBONE | $10 / month
Working class background and/or income ~ $30k-40k/year
HEN | $36 / month
Middle class background and/or income ~$40-50k/year
nest | $50 / month
Upper middle class background and/or income >$50k/year
SOIL | $1,000-$6,999
Upper or owning class background and/or annual income of $80k/year+
FLOWER | $7,000-$17,999
Owning class background with access to wealth of $500k+
FRUIT | $18,000+
Owning class background with access to wealth of >$1 million
The Flock is for anyone who
Seeks to build queer diasporist Jewish community rooted in land, tradition, healing and justice
Longs to reclaim our inherent connection to place and each other and create home outside of nationalist paradigms
Believes in the leadership and vision of queer and trans Jews and BIJOCSM (Black, Indigenous, Jews of Color, Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews)
Dreams of an ecosystem of alternative Jewish institutions that apply pressure on the mainstream Jewish world to align more deeply with movements for liberation
Joining the Flock means partnering with us in this vision by sharing financial resources and building a circle of community support around this project.
Why fund cultural work?
Building resilient alternatives to the oppressive systems that dictate our society is a long-game approach to social change. As such, cultural organizing work is hard to define, not easily funded, requires tangible resources, and is so critical to our collective liberation! Your support allows us to fund our work without compromising our values. 2020 was our first year as a community funded project and we are so proud of what we accomplished together.
Together, we can love up this project and make an investment in our collective queer Jewish future by Joining the Flock today.
Class Transparency
Up until 2019, a generous donation of $180k ($30k per year) enabled Linke Fligl to experiment and grow into a hub of queer Jewish cultural reclamation work on the left. Since 2020, we have operated as a community supported project, thanks to your support!
“Linke Fligl is a beautiful, magical, co-created space built on reparations, with the intention of living in right relationship with the land and building a radically inclusive Judaism beyond borders. This space made me feel like ancestral healing is truly possible and that our faith, culture, history, and futures are expansive enough for all of our identities and dreams.”
-Sukkot Participant & Seed Funder
how to donate
To donate online via our fiscal sponsor Allied Media Projects, click here or fill out the form above.
To donate via check, make a check out to Allied Media Projects, memo line: “Linke Fligl.” Mail to our fiscal sponsor: Linke Fligl c/o Allied Media Projects, 4126 Third St., Detroit, MI 48201.
If you are a seed funder seeking to give a non tax deductible gift, please email us at fundraising@linkefligl.com.
