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A Houston-area nonprofit that delivers meals to kids in need was paralyzed by a winter storm. But a viral tweet from Mamaroneck activist Amy Siskind jumpstarted the organization back into action.

Siskind, who became a nationally recognized member of the so-called resistance to the Trump administration, posted on her social media accounts Feb. 18 urging followers to help Texans through donations, including to the group Kids Meals Inc.

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She hadn’t realized at first that the tweet to her 517,000 followers or a related Facebook post had caught fire.

“It’s probably the best thing that I’ve been able to do with my social media accounts,” said Siskind, who has used her platform for organizing and raising money for political donations. “Not knowing that this was happening was just, it blew me away all the more.”

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Kids Meals organizers said within 15 minutes of the tweet the organization had received more than 60 donations, some of them sizable. In little more than a week, the group said it received more than 6,000 donations and raised over $1 million in total.

“We were a small nonprofit doing big work and now thanks to people like her, it’s just incredible, we became a household name,” said Beth Harp, the organization’s CEO.

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THREAD on ways to donate to help Texans.

I'll start: @KidsMealsInc is raising money to help feed kids in Houston. They lost all their food in stock when they lost electricity and need our help.

Where are you donating?

— Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) February 18, 2021

Kids Meals volunteers deliver more than 6,000 meals to children living in poverty or with food insecurity in more than 40 ZIP codes around the greater Houston area. But a winter storm that knocked out power and water to much of the region had the deliveries paused for four days – the first stoppage in the organization’s 14-year history.

Thousands of prepared meals and grocery staples perished during a power outage at the Harris County headquarters of the group, a leased space with no backup electrical generator. Unsafe roads made deliveries dangerous and a supply-side crisis left the area groceries that were open with little to stock their shelves.

After the influx of donations, the group was able to resume deliveries. Volunteers facing their own hardships at home such as no power or water, went into neighborhoods ravaged by the icy weather.

Some areas suffered from burst water pipes, where water was bubbling up onto the street, Harp said.

“There was a line down the street to try to get some water from the pipes that were burst in the middle of the street,” Harp said. “It was like is this real? Is this our country? It was difficult to watch.”

The donations helped the group not only resume service, but organizers are hoping it will help the group expand in years to come with the ultimate goal being its own permanent building. She called the support of donations from around the country a “tribute to the American spirit.”

Siskind is a former Wall Streeter who rose to prominence for The Weekly List, which documented the societal changes under President Donald Trump. She said she has been pulling back from social media use since Trump left office and she ended the list.

She has been used to dodging trolls on her platforms, but this showed how people could come together for a good cause.

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“That is the one nice thing about social media: having gathered together on Facebook and Twitter this group of wonderful, motivated people that care about issues and care about humanity beyond just the political side of things,” she said.

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Mark Lungariello covers government and politics. Follow him on Facebook @lungariello and Twitter @marklungariello.

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This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: Here's how an Amy Siskind tweet from Westchester helped save a Houston nonprofit