Category Archives: community support

Give Ten: The Brigid Alliance

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In response to increasing attacks on reproductive health care in the U.S., we have decided to dedicate this year’s Give Ten donations to The Brigid Alliance. The Brigid Alliance arranges and funds confidential, personalized travel support to those seeking abortion care in increasingly hostile environments.

Ten percent of all sales will be directed to The Brigid Alliance. Instead of a one-month donation drive, we will continue this donation from May 1 through the end of this year. Please consider donating to this cause.

  • Final update: Since May 1, you have made it possible for us to donate $340 for The Brigid Alliance. Thank you for supporting our poets and for helping poetry support reproductive health care!

June fundraiser: Center for Racial Justice

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For the month of June, Seven Kitchens Press will donate 10% of all sales to the Center for Racial Justice. Thank you to Daniel Barnum for directing our attention to this resource. 

Please feel free to donate directly by following this link: https://www.classy.org/give/59790/#!/donation/checkout 

 

May fundraiser for Roebling Point Books and Coffee

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RoeblingFor the month of May, Seven Kitchens Press will donate 10% of all sales to Roebling Point Books and Coffee, located just over the Roebling Bridge from Cincinnati in Covington, Kentucky. RoPoBoCo is a unique and treasured local bookshop and we want to do our part to help see them through the COVID-19 crisis. 

Please feel free to donate directly by following this link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/ropoboco-loves-the-cov

Or reach out by phone and have their staff help you select the perfect book: (859) 992-9444.

You can also find them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/roeblingpointbooksandcoffee/

June 1 update: We’re happy to report that we were able to donate $93.00 for the month of May! Thanks for supporting Seven Kitchens and helping us to give back to our community.

Help support Small Press Distribution by buying chapbooks (it’s a win-win)

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This week, when we saw the call for funds to support Small Press Distribution (SPD), it was easy to jump into action mode: we immediately pledged 100% of our sales–through this Saturday, 4/25–to this GoFundMe fundraiser:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-small-press-distribution-survive

Thanks to our dear readers and supporters, we (you!) have already raised just over $150 in support of SPD. 

You get the chapbooks you want (check out our Pair-ups for great limited-run deals) and together we help support small presses. Win-win. Thank you so much!

update, 4/26/2020: Together we raised $225 for this fundraiser, not counting the folks who let us know they’d made direct contributions to SPD. Readers rock! Thank you all so much.

New release: Matt Daly, Red State (Rane Arroyo Series)

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Daly_Red State_webWhat better day than July 4 to bring out Matt Daly’s new chapbook, Red State, selected by Dan Vera & Ron Mohring as Number 11 in our Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series? Click here to check it out and also read about the release of Matt’s full-length collection, Between Here and Home.

Remember that 100% of all chapbook purchases for the weekend of July 5 – 7 will be donated to Raices in solidarity with Bookstores Against Borders!

Bookstores Against Borders: Pop-up fundraiser for Raices

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Bookstores Against Borders

During the July 5-7 weekend, Seven Kitchens Press will donate 100% of our chapbook sales to Raices in solidarity with #Bookstores Against Borders, with a guaranteed minimum donation of $50. Please consider donating to this urgent cause, whether through your purchase with 7KP or through a direct donation of any amount to Raices.

Update: Raices is very close to their fundraising goal of $300K. Any amount you can give will help!

25 x 25 Fundraiser: Doubling Down for Skull + Wind Press

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If you’re following us on Facebook, you know we’re doing a special 25 x 25 fundraiser for Skull + Wind Press–for every chapbook we sell through May 25, we’re donating 25% to this new press launched by Trevor Ketner, one of our authors.

Today, we’re doubling down: We will donate all funds from every copy we sell of Trevor’s chapbook, Negative of a Photo of Fire, to Skull + Wind Press.

Please join us with your support!

updates:

  • 25 x 25 tally as of May 25: $71.28 — Thank you for helping us raise these funds for Skull + Wind!
  • double-down tally as of May 25: $123.52 — This tally will update through the print run of Trevor’s chapbook. Thanks so much for helping to donate to a groundbreaking new press!

Give Ten

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You may know that, as of last November 8, I dedicated 10% of all Seven Kitchens Press sales to be donated back to a worthwhile cause. Our first recipients were the Trevor Project, Planned Parenthood and the ACLU. Most recently, donations have been in the form of needed supplies for other small and micro presses. In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, we will be donating ten percent of all sales received in the months of September and October to the Houston Food Bank.

Please do what you can, in any way you can, to reach out to folks in need.

Update: As of September 18, the amount set aside for the Houston Food Bank is $29.58 and counting. Thank you all.