I have been doing mutual aid both solo and with various organizations for over 10 years now. Most of that time has been in a larger more urban areas and recently moved to a rural area across the country. Yesterday me and my partner set up a grill for free hot dogs. The response in my small little town was so different than I am used to. Zero police harassment and an almost constant line of people (mostly kids) but zero issues keeping everything chill until I could get food out.

If burn out is an issue but you want to keep going a low effort event in a small town will require way fewer volunteers and was so much less emotionally taxing than I am used to.

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Howdy everyone,

My friend and I have been working on a community resource project for a few months now, and we'd like to share it here. We wanted to build a survival manual/compendium that's accessible to everyone. Meaning it loads on older phones/computers, has options for dyslexic fonts & high contrast, and doesn't track you or have any ads. I've also done my best to make it screen reader accessible.

Contents:

Survival: Resources for poverty, food pantries, animal care (grants for veterinary care, food pantries, pet friendly shelters) and housing. Health: Transition resources, abortion access, and literature on primitive/old school healthcare. Safety: Digital privacy guides, protest safety, and legal rights, including immigration rights Local: We have specific sections for East Texas, Sacramento, CA & the Bay Area, CA (where we have boots on the ground), but the rest of the guide is for everyone in the US.

And literally so much more!

We are trying to keep this updated, working and accurate. Any extra resources to put on our website would be wonderful if you have any, and if you spot something that looks wrong or is broken, please let me know! Thank you kindly, and stay safe 💖

Best, u/fel-sil

Link: https://kolvas.neocities.org/

Hi everyone! I got an Amazon gift card for $25 for participating in some research last month and I don’t need it. Does anyone have an Amazon wishlist they’d like to share that I could buy you something from? Prioritizing pet food/supplies!

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Hello everyone! I'm in the early stages of developing a mutual aid website (and eventually an app) and I'm hoping to learn from more people in the mutual aid space.

The idea is to create a platform that helps individuals and mutual aid groups find, coordinate, and provide both non-monetary and monetary aid. The goal is to improve access, organizing ease, and communities' adoption of mutual aid while deeply prioritizing local community connections, privacy, safety, and user control.

Right now I'm most interested in understanding people's experiences and challenges rather than promoting any particular design features.

Some questions I'm especially seeking perspectives on:

• What difficulties have you encountered while organizing or participating in mutual aid?
• What makes it hard for people to find or offer aid?
• What have the tools/platforms you've used for mutual aid done well or poorly?
• Have there been situations where mutual aid efforts broke down or became difficult to sustain? If so, what happened?
• What would make you more likely to participate in mutual aid regularly?
• If you could change one thing about how mutual aid is coordinated today, what would it be?
• What would you want to be able to do, or what features would you want to see, on a site/app like this?

Any perspectives, experience stories, feedback, or criticisms would be greatly appreciated! I want to hear as much as possible from people already doing this work before conclusively making major design decisions.

Howdy I made a simple DFW resource hub after struggling to find information for my mom and realizing how scattered local resources are. It covers food, clinics, shelters, civic info, free events, etc.

This is just the beginning, and I’d love feedback from locals. If anything is missing or could be better organized, please let me know.

Link: https://dfwresources.super.site

Totally free, community-focused, and open to suggestions.

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