Black Home Birth Initiative

05/28/2025

We’re reaching out to the community on behalf of two of our midwives shared private practice , to kindly assist us in supporting their six clients after they were unexpectedly left without care. They have been providing pro bono services, and the financial strain on Bee and Sasha is significant and unsustainable.

Here are some ways you might be able to help:
* Contribute to the fund
* Share this post with your network
* Organize a fundraiser with your community

We sincerely appreciate your support!

Link: https://gofund.me/82b10094 (link is in their bio Community Birth Twin Cities bio)

04/29/2024

Save the date! We would really love to see all of our community’s lovely faces at this brunch event ✨
Come share space with us, enjoy a bodywork session and brunch 🖤

If you can’t make it to the event, you can still support us by making a donation to the BHBI and helping us spread the word!

Saturday, May 4th from 10am - 1pm at Anam Cara House: 3612 Bloomington Ave S. Minneapolis, MN. We hope to see you there!

02/05/2024

We are raising money for a local Twin Cities family to be able to access safe, culturally matched midwifery care ✊🏽. You can help this family by:

🖤 making a financial contribution towards their care. Donations are tax-deductible, and 100% of donations received go directly towards the family’s care.

PayPal: PayPal.me/bhbimn
Venmo/Ca$happ: vidamidwifery (please notate BHBI Fund)

🖤 helping us spread the word - your likes, comments, and shares get our request in front of more eyes and increase the likelihood of getting this family funded. Share our post or leave this family a kind word!

OUR GOAL: $2500

We can ensure that Black families in our community can bring their babies earthside feeling safe, seen, heard, and believed. We are so grateful for your support, and hope that we can soon let this family know that they are funded!

In love and community,
The BHBI

10/05/2023

Local BHBI friends and birth workers, one of our amazing families just welcomed their third baby, and could use some extra postpartum support!

Meals, gift cards and monetary donations are all welcome! You can sign up for their meal train or leave a donation here: https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/gkk943

This family is SO dear to us, can we show them how we lift up postpartum families in this community by filling this meal train up?

06/01/2023

We are halfway to getting this family funded for their homebirth!

The BHBI continues to work towards making birth safer for Black families, but we need your help to do so! If you’ve been impacted by homebirth or believe in homebirth for all, please help us get them funded by sharing and/or donating towards their fee.

Donate at: PayPal.me/bhbimn or Venmo (please memo BHBI HB FUND)

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05/26/2023

Family, friends, birth justice folks, community! We need your help to fund a local Black family seeking to transfer care ASAP.

We believe that Black families have the inherent right to healthcare where we are seen, heard, believed, and SAFE. Healthcare with a provider who looks like and understands us. Healthcare without an increased mortality rate.

We have a local Black family who needs funding for their homebirth. You can help by donating and by helping us BLOW THIS POST UP ✊🏽

Donate via PayPal: paypal.me/bhbimn

Don’t have PayPal? Donate via Venmo at with memo “BHBI Family Fund”

Donations are tax-deductible! Reach out to us for more info or to request a receipt for your donation.

✨ What We Do ✨
The Black Birth Initiative is a 501c3 organization making change and improving outcomes in our community through culturally matched midwifery care, community education, and working to increase the number of Black midwives in our communities.

Learn more about our work: www.bhbi.org

05/09/2023

A huge thank you to Anam Cara Therapies, and everyone who donated, contributed, and shared space with us at last weekend’s BHBI brunch benefit. We could feel the love and support in that space and our hearts are full of gratitude for our community.

Your support had a very direct impact for our Twin Cities birthing community. I am so happy to share that we raised enough money to enter a waitlisted family into care!

I have heard so many home birthers say that this model of care and birthing at home were life changing experiences for them, and am so deeply thankful that we are - little by little - ensuring that everyone can access care that makes them feel safe, seen, heard, and supported.

05/03/2023

This weekend! Saturday, 5/6 - see you there!

Twin Cities - Mark your calendar for this Saturday, May 6th!
💜Midwives Bee, Evelyn & Sasha can't wait to see you at the BHBI Fundraiser Benefit Brunch.
💜 Repost thanks to
✨Check out the line up we have planned for you! The spring Family Brunch event is the fundraiser you do not want to miss.
We will have:
🎈over 40 really cool silent auction items;
🎈amazing brunch food- gluten-free and vegan options too;
🎈massage and acupunture sessions;
🎈yoga, yoga, yoga,
🎈balloon animals and facepainting for the kiddos;
🎈music;
🎈And so much more!
Come join us in support of the Black Home Birth Initiative. Featuring:
11am: Family yoga class with Blooma
12pm: Community singing
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All proceeds go to support the amazing work of BHBI. Cash, check, and charge will be accepted at the event.
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Can't attend? Donate now using the link in bio.
🤗💓 A special thanks to our event sponsors: Anam Cara and Twin Cities Midwifery: