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April 10, 2026
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Join the Moms Next Door April Dispatch — Help Lower Costs for Families

The TL;DR: 
  • Take Action: Help stop the affordability crisis by hosting a "Moms Have the Receipts: Spring Hangout" to collect receipts and stories regarding the rising costs of child care and health care.
  • Get Organized: Join our April Organizing Meetup on April 21, 2026, to learn about electing leaders who stand with families.
  • Build Community: Discover new resources for mutual aid, high-impact event planning, and collective self-care.

Welcome to the April Dispatch! Thank you for being a part of our growing, powerful Moms Next Door program. Each month, you’ll receive this toolkit to provide you and your community with ideas on how to self-organize, take action, find joy in community, and recharge as we build a brighter future! Sign up now to get these monthly dispatches in your inbox and learn new ways to connect!

Here is the April Menu of 5 Ways for You To Engage This Month, on your own — or with a small group near you:

April Organizing Zoom Meetup

Join us on Tuesday, April 21, 2026, at 7:30 pm ET on Zoom for Moms Next Door Session #4: Stacking the Deck: Electing People to Office Who Stand with Us!

Sign up for the April Zoom Meetup here!

Action of the Month: Moms Have the Receipts! Host a Spring Hangout

Too many elected officials have no clue how hard it is to balance a family budget in 2026. Can you host a Spring Hangout to help stop the affordability crisis? We’re organizing hangouts with friends to collect our receipts and our stories in order to show Congress exactly how hard things are for families right now!

Here’s how it works: Bring your friends together to share your stories and your receipts (Gas prices? The cost of your Child care, Health care, or prescription drug prices? Whatever cost is causing you to raise your eyebrows in alarm!). Then, the MomsRising team will pull together our stories and deliver them directly to lawmakers in late April for Mother’s Day.

Together, we’ll highlight the real costs our families are facing and ask our leaders to make life more affordable for all of us!

Learn more and sign up to host a hangout here!

Fun, Joy & Power

MomsRising Cheat Sheet for High-Impact Events

Ready to turn your passion into action? Hosting a local event is one of the most powerful ways to build community and influence change. To help you hit the ground running, we’ve developed the MomsRising Cheat Sheet for High-Impact Events. This step-by-step guide is designed to take the guesswork out of organizing.

Download the event planning cheat sheet here.

Resources for Collective Care

To show up for what you care about, you must first show up for yourself! Check out these resources from the Latinx Therapists Action Network to find mindfulness in our work of building a better world:

What We’re Reading This Month

For those starting book groups for change, here is our April library pick. When you meet, take a picture and tag @MomsRising on social media!

  • Nonfiction Pick: Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care by Lynne Segal.
  • Fiction Pick: Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms edited by Kinsale Drake.

Books for Future Voters

This month’s Moms Next Door Workshop is Stacking the Deck: Electing People to Office Who Stand with Us. We’ve got lots of great book ideas for the kiddos in your life this month so they can learn about elections and voting too:

  • V is for Voting by Kate Farrell (Ages 3-5)
  • The President of the Jungle by Andre Rodrigues (Ages 4-7)
  • Go Vote Baby! by Nancy Lambert (Ages 2-5)
  • Equality’s Call: The Story of Voting Rights in America by Deborah Diesen (Ages 5-9)
  • Vote for our Future! by Margaret McNamara (Ages 6-10)

Mutual Support Activity: Join Your Local Buy Nothing Group

Different from charity— where resources usefully flow in one direction from donors to recipients—mutual aid is community-driven and reciprocal, built on community-based solidarity. And many parents and caregivers are already doing this (think: your local PTA, community gardens, or even kids’ birthday parties). In creating communities of love, we also want to turn them into communities of support, protection, and action to prepare for what’s ahead. Curious how to get started? Here’s how to create a mutual aid pod in your community!

This month, find joy in spring cleaning by joining your local Buy Nothing Facebook Group. Offer unwanted items to the community or request things you may need to reduce consumption and connect with neighbors.

Join your local Buy Nothing group now.

Share Your Story: Have the rising costs of Child care or Health care impacted your family budget? We want to hear from you. Your real-world experiences help us show lawmakers why we need urgent policy changes. Click here to share your story.

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