About Us

Supplies for Solidarity is a community-rooted resource equity and mutual aid distribution campaign providing and expanding free school, health, recreational, and life-development resources to Sacramento County’s historically-marginalized and under-served students, children, and families. Dedicated to bridging the educational and socioeconomic disparities created by systematic barriers of unequal access, Supplies for Solidarity meets the needs of community members from underserved neighborhoods and underfunded schools, particularly low-income, first-generation families of color.

Founded in Spring 2022 by then-high-school freshman Celine Qin, Supplies for Solidarity finds its roots in student-led activism. The alarming rise of coronavirus cases throughout Sacramento area’s public schools, amidst the first school year returned from quarantine, disproportionately impacted low-income students of color, whose families often grappled with challenging access to public health resources and educational information. Adamant to empower social justice and equity in supporting youth and families in the public school system, especially those facing the detrimental effects historical and systemic gaps, Qin and students across over twenty campuses mobilized 10,000+ community members in order to raise awareness of Sacramento’s present resource inequity, demanding improved pathways to essential needs and support networks.

Knitting together a coalition of social justice and youth empowerment organizations, public officials, mutual aid projects, and health equity advocates throughout Sacramento County, including the Sacramento Alliance for Vaccine Equity, what would be known as the “Student Safety Now” movement transformed into a long-term, community-directed initiative that would consistently bridge material supplies and meaningful resource connections to Sacramento County’s most-impacted students and families—called Supplies for Solidarity. That same year, Supplies for Solidarity became a leading community partner with Governor Newsom’s statewide Vaccinate All 58 [Counties] Campaign through the CA Department of Public Health, providing rapid COVID testing, professional booster vaccines, and health information to 200+ historically-underserved Sacramento locals through an urgent-response health clinic.

For now three continuous yearly cycles, Supplies for Solidarity supports over 500 local families through various direct-aid supply distribution sites hosted throughout the city and open to Sacramentans in need, year-long funding reinvestment and budget advocacy efforts placing statewide dollars into crucial youth and family programs serving the Sacramento community, and sustainable long-term partnerships with public health institutions and public school students securing school, health, and household materials year-round. To date, Supplies for Solidarity has coordinated 40+ collection and distribution drives throughout seven public school districts; successfully hosted five back-to-school season, family fun, and massive giveaway events with youth programming, community resource fairs, food vendors, art classes, games, and essential supplies available to community members at zero cost; directed funding partnerships across 300+ entities statewide; and established collaboration with 65+ school campuses and 30+ student organizations.