Come! Mend!

COME! MEND! is a response to a need for healing and action in and beyond the US. Initially inspired and overseen by Commend, RVNG's beloved Lower East Side storefront and gathering space of seven years, the initiative provided an IRL / URL platform for conversation, information exchange, activation, and amplification through workshops, town halls, collection drives. Come! Mend! has since manifested on almost every RVNG, Freedom To Spend, Beats In Space, and Commend release as a small badge included with the artwork identifying different organizations selected by our artists that a portion of the proceeds from their record's sales are designated to.

Thank you to all of the artists, organizers, and you, the listener, for supporting these organizations. For more information about Come! Mend!, or to get involved, please drop us a line at getradder@igetrvng.com.

To date we have donated

$23,528

The International Rescue Committee
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.
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$250
Donated on behalf of Ka Baird (RVNGNL61)
A.B.O. Comix
A.B.O. Comix is a collective of creators and activists who work to amplify the voices of LGBTQ prisoners through art, and link them with free-world pen pals.
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ACLU
to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
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$2,000
Donated in partnership with Bandcamp's human rights fundraiser in February 2017.
Amazon Frontlines
Our team is comprised of an international group of human rights lawyers, environmental activists, forestry specialists, environmental health scientists, filmmakers, journalists, anthropologists, and farmers. We live and work in the western Amazon. Our mission is to support the struggles of indigenous peoples to defend their rights to land, life and cultural survival in the Amazon Rainforest.
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$250
Donated on behalf of Dukes of Chutney (BIS040)
Association for Neighborhoods & Housing Development
ANHD builds community power to win affordable housing and thriving, equitable neighborhoods for all New Yorkers. As a coalition of community groups across New York City, we use research, advocacy, and grassroots organizing to support our members in their work to build equity and justice in their neighborhoods and city-wide.
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$5000
Donated on behalf of all artists featured on New Neighborhoods (FTS015)
Biotecture Planet Earth
Biotecture Planet Earth expandins the use of affordable, sustainable buildings throughout the world and for educating the public about the architecture, construction and maintenance of those buildings and homes.
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On behalf of Diatom Deli.
Black Art Futures Fund
Black Art Futures Fund is a collective of emerging philanthropists promoting the elevation and preservation of Black arts & culture. Through grant making, board-matching, and organization-to-donor cultivation, we seek to amplify and strengthen the future of Black art.
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$3,027
Donated all proceeds from "Bandcamp Day" sales, June 5th 2020.
Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter chapter-based, member-led organization whose mission is to build local power and to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.
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$34.50
Proceeds from sales of hand-made T-shirts by Rafael Sanchez.
Bookshare
Bookshare is an accessible online library for people with print disabilities.
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$250
donated on behalf of Pauline Anna Strom (ReRVNG10)
CASA
CASA is the foremost immigrant organization in the mid-Atlantic region and a national leader in supporting immigrant families and ensuring that all individuals have the core support necessary for full participation in society.
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On behalf of Horse Lords.
Change The NYPD
Communities United for Police Reform is an unprecedented campaign that is working to end discriminatory policing in New York.
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$500
Donated June 2020
Chilis on Wheels
Chilis on Wheels is an emergency food relief public charity that provides plant-based food to people in need of a warm meal.
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$127
Donations collected from Phil Moffa's skill share session
City-As-School's MAD Academy
City-As-School's MAD Academy is a creative incubator in one of NYC's most radical public high schools: utilizing an entirely student-driven, experiential, project-based curriculum young artists develop a professional body of work under the guidance of NYC’s top creatives.
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$155
Funds raised during Phil Moffa's Octatrack Skill Share at Commend.
Climate Justice Alliance: Our Power Puerto Rico
Much of the donations are supporting a wide network of members of Organización Boricuá, our partner on the ground in Puerto Rico. They are working towards prioritizing equity and environmental justice, achieving food sovereignty, self-determination and many other just recovery efforts for the people of the island.
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$90
Percentage of proceeds from Come! Mend! The World Tees
Concrete Jungle
Concrete Jungle is transforming overlooked and underutilized fruit trees and land into a year round food source for food banks, shelters and people in need.
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$250
Donated on behalf of Shy Layers (BIS034)
Connecticut Bail Fund
Connecticut Bail Fund allows people fighting criminal charges to return home, keep their jobs, maintain custody of their children, and defend themselves from a place of freedom. For CT Bail Fund's Mother's Day Bail Out initiative, the coalition will be working to free as many women and girls as possible from jail.
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$501
Collected and Donated in partnership with PTP, with many thanks to Geng for the initiative.
Coral Guardian
Coral Guardian is a non-governmental organization working internationally and with local communities to protect coral ecosystems.
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On behalf of Sign Libra.
Dar Khalifa, The Scheherazade Foundation in Morocco, Centre for Teaching Stories
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A portion of the proceeds from soaring wayne phoenix story the earth and sky will help restore Dar Khalifa to serve as the headquarters for The Scheherazade Foundation in Morocco, and to establish the Centre for Teaching Stories, a place where cultures come together, and where ideas are shared.
On behalf of Wayne Phoenix.
Dobrodomik
Dobrodomik is an organization providing senior citizens with free hot meals and a place to eat them and share community.
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$250
Donated on behalf of Dima Pantyushin & Sasha Lipsky (BIS048)
Down’s Syndrome Scotland
Down’s Syndrome Scotland is an organization supporting people with Down’s syndrome, their families and their carers.
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$250
Donated on behalf of Oliver Coates (RVNGNL68)
Down’s Syndrome Scotland
Down’s Syndrome Scotland (DSS) is a parent led charity which was established in 1982. We are the only charity in Scotland dedicated solely to supporting people with Down’s syndrome (Ds) and their carers.
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$433.22
Donated of behalf of Oliver Coates (RVNGNL43 / RVNGNL48)
Downtown Women’s Center
Downtown Women’s Center is the only organization in Los Angeles focused exclusively on ending women’s homelessness through housing, wellness, employment and advocacy.
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On behalf of Dylan Moon.
Draft Gratitude
Draft Gratitude is a draft horse rescue in Winchester, New Hampshire dedicated to saving the lives of senior working horses.
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On behalf of Cheri Knight.
Earthjustice
Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit public interest environmental law organization.
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On behalf of M. Sage.
Ethiopia ACT
Ethiopia ACT is a gospel-centered, multi-cultural team actively loving the “least of these" of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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$250
Donated of behalf of Mark Renner (ReRVNG11)
Forest Peoples
Forest Peoples supports the rights of peoples who live in forests and depend on them for their livelihoods. We work to create political space for forest peoples to secure their rights, control their lands and decide their own futures.
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$250
Donated on behalf of Visible Cloaks (RVNGNL44)
Forest Peoples Programme
Forest Peoples Programme is a human rights organization working with forest peoples across the globe to secure their rights to their lands and their livelihoods.
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On behalf of Tristan Allen.
Fundación Mareia
Fundación Mareia is an interethnic, Chocó, Colombia-based organization led by women promoting Afro-centered emancipatory education around black feminism, decolonialism, and community, and encouraging activism, protection of nature, an ancestral care.
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On behalf of Lucrecia Dalt.
Greenpeace France
Greenpeace France is an international network of independent organizations that act according to the principles of non-violence to protect the environment, biodiversity and promote peace. It is based on a movement of committed citizens to build a sustainable and equitable world.
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$250
Donated on behalf of UMAN (FTS021)
Greenpeace [IT]
Greenpeace isn organization working directly with communities to protect the environment, promote peace and encourage people to change their habits.
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$250
Donated on behalf of Ian William Craig & Daniel Lentz (FRKWYS16)
Helping To Leave
Helping To Leave is an organization that aids people seeking evacuation from areas of military conflict.
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$1,560
Donated on behalf of Kate NV.
Homeboy Industries
Homeboy Industries provides hope, training, and support to formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated people, allowing them to redirect their lives and become contributing members of our community.
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$250
Donated on behalf of Peter Ivers (ReRVNG09)
Houston Undocumented Communities Flood Relief Fund (You Caring)
Houston Undocumented Communities Flood Relief Fund (You Caring) raises money to support an estimated 575,000 undocumented immigrant families live in Houston and its surrounding suburbs after Hurricane Harvey.
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$200
RVNG / Commend / Styles Upon Styles / Brown Privilege: Fundraiser for Houston & Pasadena
International Rescue Committee and Sesame Workshop
International Rescue Committee and Sesame Workshop is a nonprofit, educational organization behind Sesame Street, who together give displaced children in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq the support they need to learn, grow and thrive.
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$250
Donated on behalf of Satomimagae (RVNGNL74)
Intransitive
Intransitive is an organization that works to advance the cause of Trans liberation in Arkansas through art, education, advocacy, organizing and culture in order to create effective systemic change and on-the-ground impact.
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On behalf of The Body and The Haxan Cloak.
Invasive Species Council
To protect the environment from harmful new invasive species through prevention and early action.
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$250
Donated on behalf of Andras (BIS041)
KBOO FM
KBOO is an independent, member-supported, non-commercial, volunteer-powered community radio station. KBOO embodies equitable social change, shares knowledge, and fosters creativity by delivering locally rooted and diverse music, culture, news, and opinions, with a commitment to the voices of oppressed and underserved communities.
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$250
Donated on behalf of Ernest Hood (FTS014)
LGBTQ center in Kingston, NY
As a safe, supportive environment, the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center provides services, professional resources, and programs that unite the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning community across lines of age, race, gender, and economics.
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$500
Donated on behalf of Emily A. Sprague (RVNGNL58)
Lion’s Tooth Project
A community project in service of LGBTQIA+, Immigrant, Black, Indigenous, and POC youth in all of their intersecting identities; inspiring them to have more agency over their own wellness, healing, and personal stories.
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$250
Donated on behalf of Emily A. Sprague (RVNGNL71)
Make The Road New York
Make The Road New York builds the power of immigrant and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice.
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$250
Donated on behalf of Helado Negro (RVNGNL62)
Malheur Field Station
Malheur Field Station is a not-for-profit education and research center located in southeastern Oregon, dedicated to the concept of Lifelong Learning with an emphasis on and about the northern Great Basin region.
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$500
Donated on behalf of Ursula K. Le Guin (FTS009)
Mama Cash
Mama Cash was conceived around a kitchen table in Amsterdam in 1983. Since then, we have grown from a group of five feminist activists into an international fund that supports women’s, girls’, trans and intersex people’s movements around the world.
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$250
Donated on behalf of Kate NV (RVNGNL63)
Mariafund
Mariafund supports frontline Puerto Rican communities in the recovery from Hurricane Maria.
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$225.06
Collected at fundraiser with Helado Negro, Jason Ajemian & Buscabulla.
Music Fund
Music Fund is a Belgian humanitarian organisation that supports music schools and socio-artistic projects in conflict zones and in developing countries, as well as projects in our own region. We collect musical instruments, we repair them and give them a second life by offering them to music organisations. By providing training of local instrument repair technicians and by setting up permanent local repair workshop our projects sustainability is assured.
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$200
Donated on behalf of Sign Libra (RVNGNL60)
National Bail Out
National Bail Out is a Black-led and Black-centered collective of abolitionist organizers, lawyers and activists building a community-based movement to support our folks and end systems of pretrial detention and ultimately mass incarceration.
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$500
Donated June 2020
National Immigration Law Center
Established in 1979, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) is one of the leading organizations in the U.S. exclusively dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of immigrants with low income.
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$250
Donated on behalf of Tashi Wada with Yoshi Wada and Friends (FRKWYS14)
Nepal Art House
Nepal Art House is a non-profit art school that provides free art and cultural education to Nepalese children who have limited resources and opportunities.
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$250
Donated on behalf of Ka Baird & Pekka Airaksinen (FRKWYS17)
Oregon Wild
Oregon Wild is an organization dedicated to protecting and restoring Oregon’s wildlands, wildlife, and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.
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On behalf of Ernest Hood.
Pink Ribbon International
Pink Ribbon International is a non profit organization dedicated to create a global community to support breast cancer patients and promote awareness for breast cancer
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$500
Donated on behalf of Visible Cloaks, Yoshio Ojima, and Satsuki Shibano (FRKWYS15)
Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood provides vital health care services and leading the reproductive health and rights movement in the US and globally.
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$34.50
Proceeds from sales of hand-made T-shirts by Rafael Sanchez.