Solidarity not Charity.

Power the Mountains began as a GoFundMe organized by Allison Daniel, Bailey Knight, and Jet Schmidt to raise funds for a hub in Bakersville at Julie Wiggins’s House. Thankfully through networks of friends helping friends, help arrived in to Bakersville, NC area and our potter friends returned to their studios.

Power to The Mountains was connected to fiscal sponsorship by The Hack Foundation (d.b.a. Hack Club), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN: 81-2908499) for the leftover funds through Raleigh United Mutual Aid Hub (RUMAH), who were already distributing mutual aid to WNC. Through this partnership, we are able to continue our work supporting people in the WNC disaster area through mutual aid by purchasing specific supplies and fundraising.

Power to the Mountains is a group of trusted friends in North Carolina with shared values and useful skills working together to provide mutual aid to people in WNC. Our goal is to help groups on the ground in WNC with the exhausting work of sourcing and purchasing supplies and equipment for direct aid and recovery. We will continue our work as long as it is sustainable for our volunteers and/or needed by our partnerships. Any leftover funds will be donated to RUMAH and/or other mutual aid groups on the ground in WNC.