elizabeth miller

No Choice Without Justice

Bowling for

Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund

$4,231 RAISED SO FAR

HELP me REACH MY INDIVIDUAL GOAL of $4,000

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WHY I'M BOWLING

It's EMA Fund Triathlon time again! And, as always, we need you to help people access the health care they need to create the lives they want.

Last year we raised over $50k at the triathlon. It took 1339 donations to reach our goal. Only 3 of those gifts were for more than $250. Over 400 of them were for less than $20. I think that really seeing those numbers in black and white is so powerful. Our average gift was $30. And our average EMA grant is around $250. So with a whole pile of gifts that were $30ish each, we were able to fund about 200 abortions.

We are a different organization than a lot of the ones who might ask you for money. I dutifully donate $15 to NPR annually, always during a matching gift drive ("If we get 1000 donations by 9 am, we will get a match from our donors of an extra $250,000!"), but i do it to assuage my guilt when i hear them talking over and over about caller support. I don't really believe that the small amount i can give makes a difference.

But with EMA, it does.

This year, for the first time, we put money into a permanent physical space, so that volunteers won't have to lug materials all over the place and store them in our dampening basements. Specifically, we are paying $25 a month for a beautiful file cabinet of our very own at a co-working collective, and we are very excited about it! But these sort of expenses mean that $5 actually makes a difference. 60 donations at that level, and we've paid our rent for the full year!

Last month, i talked to a caller who had two days to figure out how to fund her abortion. It was $650, a standard first trimester cost. It seemed pretty cut and dry: her insurance couldn't cover it; she had $250 in savings; we got her an $80 discount; we granted her $250; we strategized with her about how to raise the last $70. We talked the next day, and she had the money together. But then, the day of the procedure, her car died. She had to get there. She had no extra money. She couldn't even afford the T.

$5 could make the difference.

We increased our grant. She was able to use some of the money she had raised to pay for the T for her and her sister, who was going with her. She was able to get the abortion she needed.

We need your $5, so we can give her the $5 she needs.

Thank you all so much.

Team Members

DONORS

Bennett Lareau-Meredith : $60
Lucas Orwig : $50
Sarah Mountz : $15
Casey Shepherd : $15
Anonymous
Laurie Ganberg : $25
Sarah Gordon : $36
Anonymous : $15
Sherry Biskup : $15
Emily Ravenscroft : $25
This is for my mother and sister, who both had free access to abortions when they needed them. I hope that one day the USA can provide the same services that my family could access in the UK.
Kelly McCoy : $50
Val Vilott
hannah zipple
Anonymous
Christine Smith : $30
Anna Tribble : $50
jane miller : $300
Sean Penchinar : $10
Eva Rosenberg
Lee Steube : $5
malachite Amalya : $25
Matilda St John : $25
Thank you for all the work that you do!
Solomon Traurig : $5
Xoxoxoxo!
Sophia Perez : $10
Nancy Pitts : $5
You're amazing, Elizabeth!
Anonymous : $5
Nicole Hendrickson : $15
Margaret Crowley : $15
Anonymous
I hope this helps EMA win the challenge grant!
Amanda Miller : $150
Cole Parke : $5
Alisha & Hema Sarang-Sieminski : $50
Keku'i Ledward
Anonymous
Rae Jones : $15
Bhavin Patel : $15
Meredith Wells
Let's go challenge grant !
Phoebe Mathews : $6
Frances Harrell : $15
ABORTIONS FOR ALLLLLL!!!!!
Stephanie Plourde-Simard : $10
Challenge (grant) accepted!
Laura Blosser : $15
Thea Holsman : $100
Anonymous : $2
I <3 EMA
Sherry Biskup : $15
Katha Pollitt : $25
Good luck with the challenge grant!
Anonymous
Johannes Wilson : $15
lindsey o-Pries : $15
Go, eliz, Go!
In honor of your matching gift to my NNAF Page!
Daphne Mazuz : $5
I want Elizabeth's homemade goodies basket. I will fight you all for it :)
Deidre Purcell : $10
Mairead Sullivan
YeahEMA!!!
Cristy Cummings : $50
Saif Rahman : $10
Mahsa Yazdy : $15
Crys Calderon : $15
thank you for being you!
Voula O : $15
<3 <3 <3
Jessica Gauchel : $100
Alicia Johnson : $5
Gretchen Sisson : $25
Jana Lithgow : $15
Marisa Howard-Karp : $15
Phoebe Weiss : $25
Laura Mandelberg : $15
Andrew Hallal : $10
Nancy Pitts : $15
Go, Elizabeth, go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stephanie Joyce : $40
Rachel McCook : $15
You sure are wonderful, Elizabeth. Sending you EMA love across the miles.
ivanna bergese
Jolie Olivetti : $100
Anonymous
Good luck! Thank you for the work you do.
Maile Shoul : $15
Anonymous : $15
Anonymous
Nancy Pitts : $15
Go, Elizabeth, go!
Michele Lieberth : $15
It's an honor to be able to support you.
Alison Whyte
Brooke Chapla : $15
Elizabeth Miller, you are such an amazing model! I only wish you knew how often your publicly shared, courageous behaviors influence my life in all the right ways .... Thank you for what you do!
Jaclyn Friedman
Katha Pollitt : $50
So glad to help get matching funds for Chicago Abortion Fund!
Laura Blosser : $25
I love seeing your creative bowling team names every year & am so happy to support the hardwork that you do making abortions available to people who might not otherwise be able to afford them!
Stephanie Plourde-Simard : $15
Lauren Parker : $50
Go EMAFund!!
Emily Wheelwright : $65
Erin Ostrander : $141
Christina Montgomery : $10
Thank you for all your good works Elizabeth!
In honor of In Memory of Jayveon Gunn
Rachel Jones : $30
Lee Steube : $35
Alison Brill
Nicole Mushero : $15
ariel federow : $25
Leon Smith : $15
Rebecca Prosser : $20
Judith Ellman : $25
Abigail Ruby : $25
Access for all!
In honor of Marge and Len Ruby
Dawnielle Peck : $5
AC Goldberg
Anne Phillips : $16
Thanks for being my BBU this week!
Anonymous
Shelley Harrison : $15
ZOE FELDMAN : $100
Lisa Thompson : $15
maile shoul : $5
cailin duram : $5
Anonymous : $5
diana doty : $5
joanna ware : $5
nicole mushero : $5
Nicole Mushero : $5
jana lithgow : $5
laura mandelberg : $5
sarah morton : $5
Asher Bruskin : $25
Fund all the abortions!!
Rachel Youdelman
Mark Williams : $25
Hilary Viens : $5
Cole Parke : $25
Courtney Snegroff
Beth Grampetro : $5
anne phillips : $5
Amanda Trainor : $25
Eve Lauria : $5
Laura Mandelberg : $5
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous : $30
Anonymous
Thank you for the work you do!
Sam Stewart : $25
Anonymous
Margot Meitner
Naomi Sobel
Matt Osborn
Shannon O'Malley : $5
Erin E Howe : $50
Stacey Burns : $50
in honor of elizabeth's tenacity and her ability to beat february (not to mention the feat of rounding up $8500 for one person's abortion last month)
Ian Trefethen : $50
hannah betesh : $50
Stud Green : $30
You rock!
Dawnielle Peck : $25
Go Elizabeth!! Tally ho!!!
Sarah Hudson : $10

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