Your Support is Essential
At Magpie Community Foundation, we strive for a better future for our children by building lasting community infrastructure for food, housing, and education. We also understand how important it is to support meeting the day-to-day needs of our relatives. Both long term projects and immediate needs require financial resources. For this reason, we have two pools of money into which you can make your tax-deductible donation.
Immediate Support Fund
The money donated to this fund allows Magpie to disburse cash as needed to support our relatives. Life on the reservation is full of unexpected expenses few of us are prepared to handle. Whether a relative needs gas money to make a medical appointment, additional groceries towards the end of the month, support with rising heating costs, or a sudden home or auto repair, the Immediate Support Fund is here to provide access to cash when our relatives need it to support themselves and each other. Click (the button) to make a one-time or recurring tax deductible donation to the Immediate Support Fund
Operations and Capital Projects Fund
As a low-budget nonprofit operating on a low-income reservation, Magpie prioritizes utilizing creative and DIY solutions. From milling our own lumber and fixing our own trucks to uncountable hours of volunteer work by family and allies, we are able to keep costs relatively low while maximizing our impact. As our projects grow, we recognize the need to offer more paid work to our relatives, so that we can leverage our Tiospaye’s skills, experience, and wisdom to build, cook, garden, and teach for each other. We also need to purchase parts, materials, and equipment for some projects. We recognize the importance of keeping money circulating within the family as much as possible, and our model of paying our relatives to work for each other and our childrens’ futures does just that. Click (the button) to make a one-time or recurring tax deductible donation to the Operations and Capital Projects Fund.