Front Porch Collective, LLC

08/06/2025

Join us for a comforting month of support and community. Links for all August events can be found on our website or by visiting the 🔗 on our profile.

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07/29/2025

Our Immunocompromised and Disabled Adults Support Group is back this month! Join us via Zoom on Sunday, August 17 at 11 AM EST from the comfort of your safe space. Registration is required for access to the secure Zoom room.

What to Expect at Group:
1- Live captions and monitored chat for folx to communicate non-verbally
2- Intros by moderator and group attendees who wish to participate
3- Guided discussion and grief shares
4- Closing reflection and connection space

This group is no cost but donations are accepted.
Register at:
frontporchcollective.com/events/disabled-support-august

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07/20/2025

‼️ Today's meeting of Reading Grievers in-person at Onondaga Park has been CANCELLED. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience or disappointment.

Join us tomorrow for our virtual session at 7 PM EST! Details can be found on our Events Calendar.

Send a message to learn more

07/14/2025

Join us next Thursday for our July Grief Gathering, a support group for all grievers. This monthly series offers support to grievers of all types, no matter where you are in your grief journey or the type of grief you are experiencing.

RSVP Required for access to secure Zoom room. Live captioning will be enabled.
🔗 on our page!
Thursday, July 24
7-8:30 PM EST
$0 to register, donations accepted

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07/12/2025

Reflective writing is a longstanding grief work practice. For some, it's journaling, legacy storytelling, or meditative writing. For me (Nicole), it's poetry. The poetry itself is not always "good" nor it is always *exactly* what I want to say but the point is to get it out there. To put the feelings into words when you can't find them otherwise, to help make sense of the big emotions trapped just under the surface.

Almost all of my writing is for me and me only. But sometimes, it feels good to share. 🩵 So, I share this one with you: a little piece of me, my reason for grieving, and the reason for my career.

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07/01/2025

From June to July, we roll one pride into the next! Happy Disability Pride Month!

Disability Pride Month recognizes the Americans with Disabilities Act (which was signed into law on July 26, 1990) while highlighting and celebrating disability culture, history, and community pride. This year's theme, as selected by The Arc's National Council of Self-Advocates, marks 35 years of ADA with "We Belong Here, and We're Here to Stay." To us, this theme embodies that disabled people have always existed, will always exist, are not to be fixed or healed, and are deserving of acceptance, understanding, and CELEBRATION!

Stacey Park Milbern, Korean-American disability activist, had this to say during her speech to a collective of disabled students at the UC Santa Cruz Disability Resource Center graduation ceremony on June 13, 2019: “You are a beautiful human being who deserves love and tenderness and care as you are. You do. We do. We deserve to have our boundaries listened to. We deserve respect. We deserve dignity. We deserve to have our humanity seen. We deserve an opportunity to contribute to society. We deserve the ability to make mistakes… We are not the only ones who deserve all of these things. Every living being on this planet does. Your experiences of ableism and with disability can give you a greater ability to understand the pain of the world if you let it... It’s our responsibility to make this world more just and loving, to fight for people to have all the things they deserve as people have fought for us. We get much further in all our endeavors when we lift up our people as we work.”

Stacey Park Milbern died in 2020 due to surgical complications on her 33rd birthday.

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06/02/2025

Vendor applications are now OPEN for Q***r All Year Market! Read more about the market and apply on our website: frontporchcollective.com/queer-all-year-vendors

🏳️‍🌈 Q***r during Pride. Q***r All Year [Market]. 🏳️‍🌈

Q***r All Year Market
Saturday, November 15, 2025
11 AM - 6 PM
Community Room @ Salt City Market

Quick deets:
--> Application Deadline: Friday, June 27, 2025 or until all spaces are filled.
--> This event is intended to highlight queer/2SLGBTQIA+ artists, makers, businesses and other folx who sell products/goods. 2SLGBTQIA+ allies are welcome to apply but priority will be given to queer-owned businesses first.
--> In order to stay true to our values of inclusivity for ALL bodies, vendors are asked to not have displays that discriminate against fat or disabled bodies.

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05/29/2025

VENDOR APPLICATIONS OPEN THIS UPCOMING MONDAY, JUNE 2❗
🏳️‍🌈 Q***r this month. Q***r during Pride. Q***r All Year [Market]. 🏳️‍🌈

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05/05/2025

UPDATE! Our monthly grief support group series has a new look!

Introducing: Grief Gathering, a general grief support group to meet grievers of all types where they are. Join us to share and be heard, and witness each other in grief.

THURSDAY, MAY 22
7 PM EST
VIRTUAL (Zoom)
REGISTRATION REQUIRED

This monthly group offers support to grievers of all types. You are welcome to join no matter where you are in your grief journey. You are welcome to join to matter the type of grief you are experiencing.

04/18/2025

With Mother's Day around the corner, there are sure to be dozens of marketing emails coming your way for events, promotional sales, and the like. Simply put: Mother's Day (and Father's Day in a few months) isn't a joyful one for a lot of grievers. We've got your back. 🩷 Here's how to IGNORE Mother's Day marketing emails from hitting your inbox.

[ID: How to Ignore Mother's Day Emails-- GMAIL: Open Gmail. In the search box at the top, click Show search options. Enter your search criteria. We recommend adding the following to the section that reads “Has the words”: mothers’ day, mother’s day, mothers day, At the bottom of the search window, click Create filter. Choose where you want the message to go. Think you may want to check it out later? Apply a label to it. Just want it GONE? Choose Delete it. -- OUTLOOK: Open Outlook for Windows. Right-click a message that you want to create a rule for. Hover over Rules then select Create rule. Choose the folder where you want all messages from that specific sender OR set of senders to be moved. Select More options to edit the rule for multiple conditions, actions, or exceptions, then click Save.]

04/09/2025

Great opportunity to work in a community-focused, grief literate, and emotionally-supportive environment.

Manlius Senior Activity Centre

04/09/2025

There may be snow on the ground here in Upstate NY, but we're looking ahead to spring temps and supportive events! April at FPC = inclusive and accessible events for grievers and non-grievers alike. 💚

4/11: Supportive Q***r Craft Circle at
4/17: Dead Parent Support Group (Virtual)
4/24: Estrangement from Family & Chosen Family, a grief support group (Virtual)

Learn more and register for groups: frontporchcollective.com/events or navigate to the 🔗 on our profile.

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