Protest Bail Funds and Other Donations

Below is a list of actions, memorial funds, and bail funds organized by state (and Canadian province) that are seeking donations.

This post will be updated periodically. Please note in the comments if anything is missing or incorrect and please specify the name of the organization and donation link.

Notes:

• Please see this website, which among other things includes a list of petitions and places to donate in the US, Australia, and Canada.
• With a few exceptions, I’ve only included fundraisers by organizations/groups instead of for specific individuals. If you think this list should include fundraisers by and/or for individuals (or for a specific individual), please let me know in the comments.
• I tried to limit this list to organizations and fundraisers that are directly related to the protests, so I didn’t include fundraisers for some organizations that were in the sources. Please let me know in the comments which of those you think they should be in this list (and any other relevant ones).
• Note that some US states/jurisdictions do not have a cash bail system, including:
  • Alaska
  • District of Columbia
  • New Jersey
• Information for Canadian bail funds and other fundraisers are at the end of this post.
• If you can’t afford to donate, stream this video.

United States

National

• The Bail Project (organization website; note that donations are for the organization)
• National Bail Fund Network (organization website; note that link is for donations for the organization. See their directory of community bail funds organized by state to donate to bail funds in specific locations)
• LGBTQ Freedom Fund (organization website; work focuses on bail for LGBTQ people)
• The Nina Pop/Tony McDale Mental Health Recovery Fund (organization website; to provide to provide therapy for black trans people)
• Mutual Aid Fund: Appalachia: Youth Mutual Aid Fund (organization websites: Stay Together Appalachian Youth Network and Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition)

Alabama

• Birmingham: Nobody Left Behind Bail Fund
• Montgomery: Montgomery Bail Out (organization website)

Arizona

• Phoenix: Black People’s Justice Fund
• Tuscon: Tucson Second Chance Community Bail Fund (organization website)

Arkansas

• Arkansas Freedom Fund (donate via CashApp at $LRFreedomFund)

California

• Anti-Police Terror Project (organization website)
• Bay Area (San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, etc.):
  • Silicon Valley DSA (organization website)
  • Oakland: Bay Area Anti-Repression Committee Bail Fund (note that organizers do not want you to list your name when donating)
• Los Angeles:
  • Peoples City Council Freedom Fund (bail fund)
  • Mutual Aid Fund: Mutual Aid Network – Los Angeles (organization website)
• Northern California (includes San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Vallejo, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Sacramento, Oakley): NorCal Resist Activist Bail & ICE Bond Fund (organization website)
• Orange County: Orange County Bail Fund (organization website)
• San Diego (including La Mesa): DeDeMcClure Community Bail Fund (organization Facebook page)

Colorado

• Colorado Freedom Fund
• Colorado Springs: Colorado Springs Protest Support Fund (organization website)
• Denver: Black Lives Matter Denver Bail Fund

Connecticut

• Connecticut bail fund (organization website)

Delaware

• Wilmington: FNB Bail Fund (organization Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram)

District of Columbia

• Legal Aid of the District of Columbia (organization website; note that donation is for the organization)
• Mutual Aid Fund: East of the River Mutual Aid Fund (organization website)

Florida

• Support Florida f12 Protesters fund (organization Twitter and Facebook)
• Alachua County (includes Gainesville):
  • Alachua County COVID-19 Bail Fund (organization website)
  • Human Rights Coalition of Alachua County (organization website)
• Florida Justice Center (organization website)
• Jacksonville: Community Support Fund by Jax Community Action (organization does not have a website)
• Miami:
  • (F)empower Community Bond Fund (organization does not have a website; can also donate via CashApp at $Fempowermia and Venmo at @Fempowermia)
  • Florida LGBTQ Freedom Fund
• Orlando: Community Bail Fund (scroll down a bit)
• Memorial Fund and Family Assistance: In Memory of Tony McDade (to cover funeral and burial expenses, mental and grief counseling, and to assist Tony McDade’s family)

Georgia

• Athens: Athens Freedom Fund
• Atlanta:
  • Atlanta bail fund (organization website)
  • Mutual Aid Fund: Metro Atlanta Mutual Aid Fund (organization website)
• Family Support: I Run with Maud (to assist Ahmaud Arbery’s mother Ms. Wanda Cooper-Jones)

Hawai’i

• Hawai’i Community Bail Fund (organization website)

Illinois

• Champaign County: Champaign County Bailout Coalition (organization website)
•  Chicago:
  • Chicago Community Bond Fund (organization website)
  • OnTheGroundChi (organization does not have a website; donate via Paypal or Venmo at @onthegroundchi; providing supplies to protesters)
• Winnebago County (includes Rockford): Winnebago Bond Project (organization website)

Iowa

• Des Moines: Eastern Iowa Community Bond Project (organization website)

Kentucky

• Lexington: Lexington Bail Fund (organization Facebook page)
• Louisville:
  • Louisville Community Bail Fund
  • Mutual Aid Fund: Louisville Mutual Aid Fund
• Action Items: Fight for Breonna (see Google doc with action items regarding Breonna Taylor’s death and for reforms for the Louisville Metro Police; sign petition); donate to Justice for Breonna Taylor Fund)

Louisiana

• Baton Rouge: YWCA Greater Baton Rouge Community Bail Fund (organization website)
• New Orleans: New Orleans Safety and Freedom Fund

Massachusetts

• Massachusetts Bail Fund (organization website; note that donation is to the organization)
• FANG Community Bail Fund (also covers Rhode Island)
• Boston: Mutual Aid Fund: Solidarity Supply Distro (organization website)

Maryland

• Baltimore: Baltimore Action Legal Team Bail Fund

Michigan

• Michigan Solidarity Bail Fund
•  Detroit:
  • Bail for Detroit Protests
  • Detroit’s Bail Fund
  • Detroit Justice Center (organization website)
  • Mutual Aid Fund: Google document of people needing assistance
  • Mutual Aid Fund: DSW Mutual Aid Fund (organization website; organization/fundraiser is to provide aid for sex workers in Detroit)
• Grand Rapids: Kent County I-Bond Fund (organization website)

Minnesota

• Minneapolis-St.Paul:
  • Black Visions Collective (organization website)
  • Know Your Rights Camp (organization website; legal defense initiative)
  • Minnesota Freedom Fund (bail fund) (note that as of 5/30/2020 they ask that people donate to Black Visions Collective, Reclaim the Block, or Northstar Health Collective)
  • MIGIZI (organization website; non-profit by/for Native Americans in MN that was burned down during the protests)
  • Northstar Health Collective (organization website; also asking for donations of specified medical supplies)
  • Supplies for protesters (Google doc with list of individuals/organizations purchasing supplies for protesters who are soliciting donations)
  • Twin Cities DSA (organization website; donating meals to protesters)
  • Twin Cities Recovery Project (organization website; food and mental health support)
  • Reclaim the Block (organization website)
  • We Love Lake Street (to rebuild small businesses and other organizations in the Lake Street area)
  • Mutual Aid Fund: Public Goods – A Mutual Aid Project for Minneapolis Public Housing Residents (organization website)
• Memorial fund: Official George Floyd Memorial Fund (can also donate here)

Mississippi

• Mississippi Bail Fund Collective

Missouri

• Kansas City:
  • Kansas City Community Bail Fund (organization website)
  • One Struggle KC Legal Fund
  • Real Justice Community Bail Fund (organized by an individual?)
• St. Louis: Mutual Aid Fund: STL Mutual Aid Fund (organization website)

Nebraska

• Omaha: Omaha (bail fund run by the Nebraska Left Coalition; note to write “bail” in the memo when donating)

Nevada

• Las Vegas: Vegas Freedom Fund

New Mexico

• Albuquerque: ABQ Mutual Aid (organization website)

New York

• Albany: Albany Bail Fund For Black Lives
• New York City:
  • Bronx Freedom Fund (see bottom of page on how to get involved)
  • Brooklyn Community Bail Fund (as of 5/31, are requesting that donations be directed elsewhere)
  • Free Them All For Public Health (organization website; donate via CashApp to $bailoutnycmay or Venmo to @bailoutnycmay)
  • Mutual Aid Fund: Mutual Aid NYC (lists organizations in NYC that provide mutual aid and the means to donate to those organiztions )
  • Trans Emergency Release Fund (work focuses on bail for trans people)
• Rochester: BLM Rochester (organization Facebook)

North Carolina

• Emancipate NC Freedom Fighter Bond Fund (organization website; statewide)
• Alamance County Bail Fund (organization website)
• Charlotte: Charlotte Uprising bail fund (organization website; donate via Venmo to @ResistanceisBeautiful or @communityjustice, or CashApp to $Werestillhere)
• Chapel Hill/Raleigh/Durham:
  • The Anti-Racist Activist Fund (organization website)
  • Durham Solidarity Center Freedom Fighter Bond Fund (organization website)
  • NC Community Bail Fund of Durham (organization website)

North Dakota

• Fargo-Moorhead: F-M Solidarity Fund (organized by an individual)

Ohio

• Canton/Akron: Canton/Akron Bail Fund 2020 (organized by an individual)
• Cincinnati: Beloved Community Church Bail Fund (note: choose an amount and click “Cincinnati Bail Fund on the next screen)
• Cleveland:
  • Black Lives Matter Cleveland (organization Facebook page)
  • Mutual Aid Fund: Cleveland Community Hub (list of fundraisers on fundraiser page)
• Columbus: Columbus Freedom Fund (organization Facebook page)
• Toledo: Community Solidarity Response Network (organization website; can also donate via CashApp at $CSRNBailout)

Oklahoma

• Black Lives Matter Oklahoma (organization Facebook page)

Oregon

• Portland:
  • PDX Protest Bail Fund
  • Portland Freedom Fund (organization website; link to bail fund might not be working?)

Pennsylvania

• Dauphin County (includes Harrisburg): Dauphin County Bail Fund (organization website)
• Lancaster: Lancaster Bail Fund (organization website)
• Philadelphia:
  • Philadelphia Bail Fund (organization website)
  • Mutual Aid Fund: Mutual Aid Philly (organization website; can also donate via Venmo at @mutualaidphl)
• Pittsburgh:
  • Bukit Bail Fund of Pittsburgh (organization website)
  • Jail Break Aftercare Jail Support (organization does not have a website, can also donate via Venmo at @PGH-FREEDOMFUND)
  • Pittsburgh Bail Fund by the Elsinore-Bennu Think Tank for Restorative Justice (organization website)

Rhode Island

• FANG Community Bail Fund (also covers Massachusetts)

South Carolina

• Charleston: Charleston, SC Protester Fund (individuals working with Black Lives Matter South Carolina)

Tennessee

• Chattanooga: CALEB Bail Fund (organization website)
• Hamilton County: Hamilton County Community Bail Fund (organization website)
• Memphis:
  • Just City
  • Mid-South Peace and Justice Center Bail Fund (organization website)
• Nashville: Nashville Community Bail Fund (organization website)

Texas

• Texas Organizing Project Bailout Fund (organization website)
•  Austin:
  • 400+1 Bail Fund (organization website)
  • Austin bail fund (organized by an individual)
• Dallas:
  • Bail Fund for George Lloyd Protesters (organization website)
  • Community Bail Fund of North Texas
  • Faith in Texas Bail Fund (organization website)
• Fort Worth: Tarrant County Community Bail Fund (organization Facebook)
• Houston:
  • Black Lives Matter Houston (organization website)
  • Pure Justice Houston Bail Fund (organization website)
  • Restoring Justice Bail Fund (organization website)
• San Antonio: San Antonio Protester Freedom Fund (organization website)

Utah

• Salt Lake City:
  • Support protesters arrested by SLCPD bail fund (organization Facebook page)
  • Mutual Aid Fund: Salt Lake Mutual Fund (organization website)

Virginia

• Norfolk County: Humanities Behind Bars (organization website)
• Richmond:
  • Mutual Aid Fund: Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Richmond (organization website); can also donate via Venmo at @RichmondMutualAid)
  • Richmond bail fund (organization website)
• Roanoke: Roanoke Community Bail Fund
• Tidewater/Hampton Roads: 757 Solidarity Bail Fund

Washington

• Seattle (King County):
  • Black Lives Matter – Seattle Freedom Fund (organization website; note that organizers say that the Freedom Fund is fully funded, though can donate to the general organization)
  • NW Community Bail Fund (organization website)
  • Mutual Aid Fund: Survival Fund for the People (organization Facebook)

West Virginia

• BLM West Virginia Bail Fund (organization Facebook)

Wisconsin

• Madison (Dane County): Free the 350 Bail Fund (donate via Venmo at @Liam-Manjon, Paypal at FreeThe350Bailfund@gmail.com, or CashApp at $FreeThe350BailFund)
• Milwaukee: Milwaukee Freedom Fund (bail fund)

Canada

Ontario

• Toronto: Toronto Protester Bail Fund
• Family Support: Justice for Regis (to support the family of Regis Korchinski Paquet)

Quebec

• Montréal: Standing Committee for the Support of Demonstrators

 

Sources:

• National Bail Fund Network (includes list of bail funds organized by US state) (also see their Twitter thread)
• (US) National Resource List by @botanicaldyke (includes resources and information for people seeking legal help, tips for protesters, and social media tips)
• May 28 Resistance Funds Google spreadsheet by @perolike_
• Bail Funds/Legal Help by City Google doc (do not know who author(s) are)
• List of Bail Funds (do not know who author(s) are)
• Twitter thread by @traderjosephina
• Twitter thread by @anne_theriault (see replies)
• Twitter thread by @costarastrology
• Twitter thread by @time2ryot
• Twitter thread by @matthewacherry
• Twitter thread by @tearsuapart
• Twitter thread by @yaassciarra
• Mutual Aid Funds: Twitter thread by @agirlwithfood

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