{"id":67144,"date":"2026-02-24T09:56:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/shes-raised-almost-20m-to-help-minnesota-she-thinks-you-can-do-it-too\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T09:56:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:56:56","slug":"shes-raised-almost-20m-to-help-minnesota-she-thinks-you-can-do-it-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/shes-raised-almost-20m-to-help-minnesota-she-thinks-you-can-do-it-too\/","title":{"rendered":"She\u2019s raised almost $20m to help Minnesota \u2013 she thinks you can do it too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley Fairbanks launched Stand with Minnesota as ICE raids rocked her home town \u2013 now donations are pouring in, and families\u2019 rent is being paid <\/p>\n<p>From thousands of miles away in San Antonio, Ashley Fairbanks watched the news pour out of her home town of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/minneapolis\">Minneapolis<\/a>\u2013 federal immigration authorities flooding the streets and regular people stepping up to defend and care for their communities. She knew she had to do something. So the 39-year-old writer, artist and digital strategist started a Google Doc.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, the list of resources for residents grew so long it became unwieldy, and Fairbanks, who builds websites for a living, launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standwithminnesota.com\/\">Stand With Minnesota<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/24\/minnesota-ice-money-activism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley Fairbanks launched Stand with Minnesota as ICE raids rocked her home town \u2013 now donations are pouring in, and families\u2019 rent is being paid From thousands of miles away in San Antonio, Ashley Fairbanks watched the news pour out of her home town of Minneapolis\u2013 federal immigration authorities flooding the streets and regular people &#8230; <a title=\"She\u2019s raised almost $20m to help Minnesota \u2013 she thinks you can do it too\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/shes-raised-almost-20m-to-help-minnesota-she-thinks-you-can-do-it-too\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about She\u2019s raised almost $20m to help Minnesota \u2013 she thinks you can do it too\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}