Community Support For Project Relief

Support Our Community Fund

We are young Black immigrant organizers. We don’t have institutional backing or wealthy donors behind us, just community, courage, and the determination to never leave our people behind.

Since 2019, Project Relief has been a lifeline for immigrant and Black communities across Maine. We’re on the frontlines, fighting systemic racism, resisting ICE, protecting families. 

This year, ICE has intensified its targeting of our immigrant neighbors. Since the beginning of March 2025, we have already hired lawyers for seven immigrants who were violently detained by ICE. Without legal support, they could have been left to languish in detention for months or even years. Instead, because of this fund, they now have legal representation to fight for their freedom and the chance to return home to their families.

These funds don’t stop at hiring lawyers. They allow us to post bail so people can reunite with their loved ones, and they cover critical after-support—rent, groceries, baby supplies, transportation, and other essentials that families need to survive when a loved one is detained. When ICE detained a father earlier this year, leaving behind a mother and her two-month-old baby with nothing, we didn’t wait—we acted. We covered four months of rent so they wouldn’t lose their home. We partnered with Coffee By Design to rally community support.

We’ve sheltered over 25 people including children who were left with nowhere to go. We’ve delivered groceries to elders and unhoused people who had no food. We’ve prevented evictions, fought back against white supremacist threats, and responded in real time to ICE raids, keeping our people informed, protected, and never alone.

This is mutual aid: direct, fast, rooted in love, and led by us. Your donations go toward helping detained immigrants with bail, legal fees, and after-support; supporting families left behind with the essentials of survival; providing for community members who are struggling; and sustaining the capacity it takes to keep showing up in these urgent moments. 

Your generosity makes all of this possible.

This is resistance. This is love. We show up because we know what it’s like to be forgotten.

Thank you for standing with us.

(The funds you see have been collected since 2020. This is our long-standing Community Fund Campaign for Project Relief.)