We believe that direct support to individuals is the most effective approach to alleviating the barriers and challenges that prevent neurodivergent and disabled people from thriving.
We exist for the direct support and mutual aid of neurodivergent and disabled people.
🏩 Mission – Stimpunks Foundation
Direct giving works. Direct giving helps people meet basic needs.
The cash recipients also said they were better able to meet their basic needs.
$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of homeless people – Los Angeles Times
“It may not be earth-shattering that providing money is going to help meet basic needs, but I do think it dispels this myth that people will use money for illicit purposes,” Henwood said. “We weren’t finding that in the study.”
$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of homeless people – Los Angeles Times
The receipts are coming in:
- $750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of homeless people – Los Angeles Times
- Denver Basic Income Project’s cash has saved lives, homeless participants say
- Thanks to $500 a month of basic income for six months, homelessness reduced by two-thirds
- Providing $7500 each to 50 homeless people resulted in a savings of $8100 per person according to new unconditional cash grant experiment
- Robust COVID Relief Achieved Historic Gains Against Poverty and Hardship, Bolstered Economy | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- CityLab Daily: A Homeless Prevention Experiment in the Heart of Silicon Valley – Bloomberg
- Multiple countries have tested a universal basic income – and it works.
