Mama's Hip Family Co-op

11/29/2022

This season we are coordinating support for our family at La Casita Center! Drop off items at the center at 223 E. Magnolia Ave Tuesdays and Wednesdays between 10am-3pm. Ring the doorbell at the back door when you arrive. Or message us for local porch drop locations outside of those hours.

Alternately let us do the shopping for you! Venmo -StonePorter or -McCallister and we will handle it from there!

08/18/2021

Please vote for Black Birth Justice for the State Farm Neighborhood Assist Grant. Our organization is a top 4 in the state ! Please help us get $25,000 to help with our Postpartum Doula Program! You can vote 10 times a day, for 10 days. That means you can get us 100 votes. Voting is from August 18th -August 27th.

Vote Here:
https://www.neighborhoodassist.com/entry/2039787

07/05/2021

10/29/2020

La Casita Center is putting together 25 baby baskets! They will be given to expectant parents to support in their postpartum recovery and breastfeeding journey. Can you support the effort by purchasing an item from the registry?

You can SHARE this link in your mom groups, parent groups, church groups, ANYWHERE!

https://www.target.com/gift-registry/giftgiver?registryId=417c84e117b742769cd2ce0f3927e8b4&type=GENERIC&occasionType=CHARITY&fbclid=IwAR2Ytkipxj7j093Y041vx-aOGMbyIx2Zne42ntuMlKBeJu-mxdgeIoXSDxE

09/28/2020

Let's share some Co-op love with member Chelsea Hicks. Chelsea's mother recently passed away, and her family has just moved into a new home. You can sign up to deliver a mean to their New Albany home or purchase a restaurant gift card. If you want to cook but are unable to deliver, contact Jenny Claire who will arrange to get the food to Chelsea. 💗

A Meal Train is active for Chelsea Hicks Family. mealtrain.com simplifies the process of giving and receiving meals and more.

07/02/2020

Mama’s Hip Family Co-op stands in solidarity with local organizations fighting for radical change and providing immediate resources to the Louisville community.

Although we aren’t returning to our physical space, our commitment to community support and mutual aid needs no walls. During this time of revolutionary growth backdropped by a pandemic, Mama’s Hip Family Co-op will be collecting resources to provide to two Louisville organizations - La Casita Center and Change Today, Change Tomorrow

We encourage those who are able to provide direct monetary donations to these organization and/or follow them for volunteer opportunities. For those providing collection items to Mama’s Hip, please DM our page for a drop off location to a home in the Highlands.

Can’t provide resources, but have time? We need support in transporting our collected items to drop off points for both organizations around town. See below for current needs and DM Cassie Marshall if you are able to sign up for one of the routes. Follow our page for continued transportation requests moving forward.

We also want to recognize the solidarity the community has received from Save-A-Lot Portland for supporting our collection with a $1000 In-Kind donation! Thank you for supporting the important work being done.

The families that make up Mama’s Hip Family Co-op are committed to uplifting, supporting, and being voices for justice. We strive to see an equitable world where everyone has access to the resources and support they need. And we are encouraged by the current movement in our city and across the world.

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Change Today, Change Tomorrow -
Monetary Donations via Cashapp and Venmo: CHANGETODAYCHANGETMW
Volunteer by following Change Today, Change Tomorrow

La Casita Center -
Monetary Donations: PAYPAL.ME/LACASITACENTER
Volunteer by joining their Facebook group “La Casita Volunteers: Circulo de Apoyo”

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Current transportation needs for 7/1-7/3 :
(items to be picked up and dropped off between the hours of 10am-4pm)

-Donations to 2 homes in the Beechmont area
-Donations to East End home (40201)
-Donations to AMPED or Butchertown Crossfit

DM Cassie Marshallto sign up for a delivery.

06/29/2020

Dear friends of Mama's Hip,

It is with gratitude, grief, and great hope that we inform you our co-op will not be returning to our location at 1559 Bardstown Road.

We are grateful for 12 wonderful years in that space - making new friends, taking care of each other, and being and becoming a community of support for families. Thank you to our landlord who has been flexible and accommodating over the years. Thank you to the thousands of visitors who made the space not just special, but sacred.

Mama's Hip has always been the people, not just the place. That has not changed. We are not going anywhere! Our community will keep connecting virtually and in other socially-distanced ways for the foreseeable future.

Our membership has maintained a robust online presence during the global pandemic. We continue to partner with La Casita, facilitate support for vulnerable families, and uplift one another on our journeys. To stay in the loop, follow updates on this public page. If you'd like to join our co-op as a member family, you can join in our conversations, swaps, and other community activities (see link in comments for membership information).

In the future, our co-op may discern we are ready for another physical space. In the meantime, we hope to become, more beautifully and radically, who we've always been: a collective of families striving for a better world by showing up, dropping in, reaching out, and working together.

We look forward to the next chapter in our cooperative journey.

With thanks and love,

The Mama's Hip Family Cooperative

06/28/2020