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Systems of extractive capitalism and the collapse happening now impedes compensation opportunities for those who are building systems and culture that divest from rugged individualism and the status quo. Lack of funding and nonprofit industrial complex restrictions limit progress, yet people like Rae Carter, curator of EmpowR Transformation, are invested in shaping inclusive culture and building just systems that are responsive to climate and political crisis and can emerge beneath the collapse–oriented towards possibility for collective liberation.

Your financial support as a Patreon helps pay for Rae to operate EmpowR Transformation as a foundation builder for community resilience organizing and strategic implementation that builds possibility for a just society.

Current projects include:

• Plainfield Farmers Market – Rae serves as a volunteer market manager, successfully growing the farmers market to more than double its vendors, unite efforts with Community Meal, and generate a community building experience of belonging for the diversity of folks in the extended Plainfield, Vermont community. Rae’s work benefits farmers, craftspeople, small businesses, and building solidarity across division. Rae’s efforts have been a stepping stone to shaping a community resilience hub. The income Rae earns as a vendor of herbal products barely covers the cost of product materials. Rae’s commitment as a vendor is to be an accessible, consistent, and reliable presence for community members. In kind, pro bono labor contributions provided by Rae for farmers market management and community outreach over the past 2 years are estimated at $6K.
• Plainfield Resilience Hub – Rae initiated the operational foundation building, community engagement, collaborative leadership, and strategic planning efforts to create the beginning of a resilience hub for the Plainfield, Vermont community in response to catastrophic flooding and economic instability in the community. This effort is currently working towards becoming financially viable with Rae as a facilitator in shaping the effort in collaboration with local and state partners committed to community resilience, building mutual aid networks, solidarity, and short and long term community care. In kind, pro bono labor contributions provided by Rae are estimated at $10K.
• Central Vermont chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice – Rae facilitated a merger of two leadership groups to create one shared leadership team that is reinvigorating a Central Vermont effort to build action for racial and economic justice. In kind, pro bono labor contributions provided by Rae are estimated at $5K.

Rae began culture and systems transformation work while experiencing health and economic inequity healing from a cancer diagnosis and health collapse in 2018, followed by experiencing complex PTSD from losing access to Vermont workforce opportunities and income generation for having the audacity to speak truth to power. Founded in 2019, EmpowR Transformation has been working diligently to cocreate cultural conditions for collective liberation by incubating a series of minimally funded experiential programs and uncompensated community building efforts. EmpowR Transformation was set up as a consulting business in the hopes that income generated could provide for the unpaid labor of community resilience organizing work. Due to the various circumstances mentioned above, business sustainability has been out of reach.

In the spirit of creative innovation, Rae invites support from people who benefit from Rae’s labor and people who want to support her work by offering community supported financing, based in the principles of Community Centric Fundraising. Operational funding ensures this work can continue and new efforts can benefit from Rae’s unique skillsets of trauma informed facilitation, operational system building, and communication strategy. The interpersonal labor of web weaving, bridge building, and designing operational foundations based in building collective power are a magic Rae offers and your support sparks that magic to spread.

Your patronage supports the ripples of community organizing work and ensures Rae can continue working towards meeting the needs of community resilience solidarity work.

Building local mutual aid, solidarity, and community resilience coalitions, networks, and webs is how we build culture and systems that can take care of our needs so we can divest further from capitalism and the regime of white supremacy.

Your investment in Rae’s service is one small way to participate in building the systems beneath the collapse, especially if you have the privilege of steady paid work, family wealth, or a secure retirement and don’t have as much time to show up in more of the ways you would like.

Thank you for considering to offer your financial appreciation!

In appreciation for your generosity, Rae offers 8 podcast recordings a year, around the Pagan Wheel of the Year Sabbats, that weave together astrology, divination, intuitive wisdom, and song.