Spring Forward with SPIRAL Collective

The SPIRAL Collective (Supporting People in Reproduction, Abortion, and Loss) is a full-spectrum reproductive options and support group. With a radical model of care for the community and by the community, SPIRAL provides free and non-judgemental support through a variety of reproductive experiences to clients throughout the Twin Cities, Occupied Dakota Territories.

This is the fourth year of our Abortion Care Bag (ACB, formerly known as AASK) and they continue to be a popular service. For GiveMN's Spring Forward event, we are hoping to raise the funds to translate the materials in the bags into Spanish and Cushite Languages so that all clients and benefit from all of the materials in the kit.

Care bags like these are a crucial part of helping people through an intense reproductive experience like abortion or miscarriage. Providing our clients with a trained abortion or loss doula/companion — while immensely important — is only one part of the emotional and physical support that a client may need throughout their reproductive experience, and is difficult to provide during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our ACB Program will provide each client with the basic tools necessary to support themselves sustainably at home. We believe that every person deserves access to the resources that will help them heal, in whatever way they need.

We would like to reserve $2000 for translation services, and use the remaining $3000 to create 200 Bags. A sample breakdown of your impact is below:

$5 Contribution — Help Us Purchase Tissue Packs for 20 Bags

With just $5, you can cover the cost of one bulk order of pocket tissue packs for 20 Abortion Care Bags. Tissue packs are useful for clients who are experiencing emotional intensity after their abortion or miscarriage, and who need to be able to cry freely during their healing process.

$15 Contribution — Provide an Abortion Care Bag for One SPIRAL Client

Your $15 contribution can cover the cost of one full Abortion Care Bag for a SPIRAL client, delivered free of charge, and with confidentiality and compassion.

$20 Contribution — Help Us Purchase Maxi Pads for 20 Support Bags

A contribution of $20 can cover the cost of one bulk order of maxi pads for 20 Abortion Care Bag. Maxi pads are helpful for clients who bleed after their abortion or miscarriage.

$50 Contribution — Help Us Purchase Pad-Friendly Underwear for 20 Support Bags

A $50 contribution can cover the cost of one bulk order of maxi-pad-friendly spare underwear for 20 Abortion Care Bags. We provide our clients with underwear because it can sometimes feel safer/nicer to wear something that’s not a part of the everyday wardrobe — something comfy and stainable — during recovery. This underwear is also useful for clients who usually prefer to wear boxers, briefs, thongs, or other underwear that’s not pad-friendly.

$150 Contribution — Provide Support Bags for Ten SPIRAL Clients

Your $150 contribution can cover the cost of ten full Abortion Aftercare Support Bags for SPIRAL clients, delivered free of charge, and with confidentiality and compassion.

$300 Contribution — Provide Support Bags for Twenty SPIRAL Clients

Your $300 contribution can cover the cost of twenty full Abortion Aftercare Support Kit for SPIRAL clients, delivered free of charge, and with confidentiality and compassion.

The SPIRAL Collective also takes non-monetary donations! If you would like to donate in this capacity, we invite you to email us at k.warner@spiralmn.org so that we can coordinate with you.  Items that we are looking for include: 

• Paper or cloth bags (1-2 gallon bags preferred)

• Maxi pads

• Underwear of varying sizes (must be able to accommodate a pad)

• Socks of varying sizes

• Heat wraps / heating pads

• Oral clinical thermometers

• Tennis balls

• Bottled water

• Emergen-C packets

• Sugar-free mint gum

• Salty snacks (e.g., crackers, chips) -- NO NUTS

• Sweet snacks (e.g., fruit snacks, dried fruit, cookies, chocolate) -- NO NUTS

• Small notebooks / notepads

• Pens / pencils

• Pocket tissue packs