Reparations Fundraiser 2025

It's Beltane! It's May Day!! It’s the halfway point between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice!AND It's the official kick off date for the annual Missing Witches Reparations fundraiser!!

NOTE: if everyone who is subscribed to our newsletter can scrounge up just $10 each to donate to their local indigenous support org, we can outdo what we raised last year in ONE DAY!

Every year we at Missing Witches, and our coven, and extended Witch community spend the month of May joyfully raising money for Indigenous support orgs (especially the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal!) and gathering together with magical friends to spotlight Indigenous voices through conversations about Indigenous Futures!

Here's a quick rundown of how our fundraiser works:

1. Make a donation of $10 or more to your local Native Women’s Shelter or Indigenous Support Org or DONATE to the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal.  

2. Take a screen shot of your receipt and email it to missingwitches@gmail.com with the subject line: REPARATION

3. Be entered to win one of over TWENTY fabulous prizes (full 2025 list below) donated by luminaries of the Witch community.  For every $10, you’ll get one entry into the draw for these prizes.  So if you donate $50, you’ll get five entries, and so on.

4.  Automatically receive coupon codes for a discount from TWO of our favourite Witchy Businesses: HAUS WITCH in Salem, and Michelle Pajak-Reynolds Jewelry!!!

Reminder: YOU make your donation to your local aid org, YOU keep your tax receipt, and WE never touch the money - it all goes straight into helping the world to be a better place.

It’s May!  That means it’s time for our annual fundraiser in support of First Nations women.  As always, Risa and Amy will be contributing our profits for the month of May to support the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal.

In addition, we’re asking our community to make a donation/reparation.  We know that most of you are coming to us from the United States, so, wherever you are, we encourage you to find a local Native Women’s Shelter to support.  (some places don’t have First Nations specific orgs so we’ll also accept donations to shelters for vulnerable women and children, sex workers, or victims of violence, but we would appreciate a focus on support of indigenous people.).

This year, as fear and violence rage across the world, we're opening the fundraiser to support all displaced people. According to the latest UN figures, nearly 300 million people in 72 countries required humanitarian assistance and protection in 2024. So if you have a connection to people displaced by California Wildfires, to Palestine, Sudan, Myanmar, Ukraine... we'll count donations to organizations that help affected women and children around the world. At this point in 2025, we can simply take a look around and we'll find someone who needs help.

We are following the leadership of indigenous communities in weaving and widening these circles of protection.

Looking for inspiration? Here is a list of links to organizations that were supported in last year's fundraiser!

SO here’s what you’re gonna do...  

Make your donation of ten dollars or more.  Take a screenshot of your receipt and email it to missingwitches@gmail.com with the subject line REPARATION, tell us what country you’re in, plus the amount of your donation.  The amount is important because for every $10, you’ll get one entry into the draw for these prizes.  So if you donate $50, you’ll get five entries, and so on.  The fundraiser runs through the month of May, prize winners will be chosen at random and announced on June first.  

Think of it as a ritual sacrifice to honour a possible world.

As always, this fundraiser is an experiment, so if you think it’s a cool idea, PLEASE help us make it successful by making a small reparation to First Nations women who have been systematically marginalized and disenfranchised both socially and economically.  Let’s raise some real money, make real change, and be blown away by what we can do when we work together.

2025 PRIZE LIST:

EVERYONE who donates will automatically receive coupon codes for a discount from TWO of our favourite Witchy Businesses: HAUS WITCH in Salem, and Michelle Pajak-Reynolds Jewelry!!!

Loli Moon of Mystic Moon Medicine - Solar Return Reading

Renee Sills of Embodied Astrology - one Embodied Astrology 2025 reading and a copy of the Embodied Astrology Basics Handbook

Kate Belew - Summer Poetry Course - A Poetry Practice, Introduction to Poetry -three-day, three-hour workshop

Amanda Yates Garcia aka Oracle of LA - 90 day membership to Mystery Cult

Jinkx Monsoon - merch pack

North Atlantic Books - book bundles (4 bundles of 3 books each)

Ysha aka The Activist Witch - Tarot reading

Imogen aka Sapling Tarot - Tarot reading

Amy Miranda - What We’ve Forgotten deck, book, personal reading

Moon Studio - Many Moons book and psychic eye candle

Maria Minnis - 45 minute tarot reading

Lorraine Reynolds - Personal One on One Mending Hearts Virtual Workshop

Erica Settino - Wild Union Yoga & Tarot Workshop

Jennifer McCaw - Design Your Own Zodiac Pendant

Theresa Sterner - FRL Studio Gift Certificate

Kristen R. - Gift Certificate to Lightning Struck Gardens

Zoe Flowers - Tarot Reading

Amy & Risa - MW 1 year membership

1. Make a donation of $10 or more to your local Native Women’s Shelter or Indigenous Support Org or DONATE to the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal.  

2. Take a screen shot of your receipt and email it to missingwitches@gmail.com with the subject line: REPARATION

3. Be entered to win fabulous prizes (full 2025 list below) donated by luminaries of the Witch community.  

4.  Automatically receive a coupon code for a discount from TWO of our favourite Witchy Businesses: HAUS WITCH in Salem, and Michelle Pajak-Reynolds Jewelry!!!

Looking for inspiration?

Patty Krawec encourages listeners to join the fundraiser by donating to PAYYOURRENT.CA - collecting funds from people living on stolen land and disbursing them to Indigenous people.

Amanda Amour Lynx suggests donating to the Sierra Club - Protect the Lakes From a Devastating Oil Spill and Support Anishinabe Nations.

Here is a list of the organizations that have been supported so far - we'll keep updating the list as we go:

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The Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal

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Indigenous Cultures Institute – IndigenousCultures.org

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Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services

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