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How to Set up a Mutual Aid Group
Please see:
🔗 https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/volunteering
Please see:
🔗 https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/group-decisionmaking
Global Resources
Global Map and Data Sources of COVID-19 Initiatives
Redaktor
🌏🔗 redaktor.ushahidi.io
Map of all COVID-19 initiatives
Mutual Aid WIKI
Map of COVID-19 Mutual Aid groups created by a small group affiliated to Mutual Aid UK
Map can be embedded on other sites, data can be pulled or added to. Internationalisation (translation) in progress.
Links to Global Resources
🌏🔗https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/collective-care/
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief links to Global Mutual Aid Resources
Comprehensive list of International Mutual Aid Networks Registries
Lists of networks and resources from a range of countries
Global Catalogue of Mutual Aid Resources by Country
🌏🔗https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Fw6ru83MuRaerWTCyPPjbcwIhXaXIqy_SbE_8bAyB2M/edit?usp=sharing
List of Mutual Aid Resources for a range of countries in native languages
COVID-19 Resources and projects
🌏🔗https://airtable.com/universe/expAvHxkW4rRwtVab/covid-19-resources-and-projects
Database of projects, specifically built using Airtable.
Thread of Global Citizen's Initiatives
🌏🔗https://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/status/1243074115763875840
The best examples of citizens' initiatives on the COVID-19 crisis, pre-empting government action, from around the world. In other words, people working together to contain the pandemic and support each other through it. Many of the examples have been pulled out and included in this handbook.
Open Opps
🌏🔗https://openopps.com/insights/contracts/summary/
Search for COVID-19 suppliers - Find suppliers of critical products & services in your country
National Resources
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
COVID-19 Mutual Aid - Group Admins support group
🇬🇧🔗https://www.facebook.com/groups/151925132663139/
Facebook Group for information sharing, discussion and advice between Mutual Aid Group coordinators
COVID-19 Mutual Aid UK - Register Your Group
🇬🇧🔗https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJrgqHazomhDsJDG3Nnye30Ys7sZEl-APCrQh80D1g-iQrgQ/viewform
Add your group (Google Form)
COVID-19 UK Mutual Aid groups
🇬🇧🔗https://freedomnews.org.uk/covid-19-uk-mutual-aid-groups-a-list/
COVID-19 Mutual Aid groups, HTML list curated by Freedom News.
Mutual Aid UK
This website is created by volunteers for volunteers who decided to take action and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by self-organising into local groups on WhatsApp and Facebook and to find the nearest Mutual Aid volunteer.
North London COVID-19 Map of Foodbanks and Food Distribution
🇬🇧🔗http://bit.ly/NorthLondonC19SupportMap
Map of North London council boroughs (7) and wards, with links and contact details for local Coronavirus support services and other volunteer/Mutual Aid groups.
Local Halo Mutual Aid App
🇬🇧🔗https://www.localhalo.com/coronavirus
London's mutual aid groups, broken down by borough and the GDPR-approved solution, no phone numbers are shown, volunteers and the vulnerable are kept safe at all times
Full list of Communities and Volunteering Groups Across UK
🇬🇧🔗https://www.policerewired.org/home/covid-19/communities (supporting data)
The collective list of all communities supporting and volunteering across the UK. Assembled from several different sources, aiming to be a fully comprehensive tool for finding a local group, and for easy access to your local safer neighbourhoods policing team.
COVID-19 Mutual Aid List Sync Software
🇬🇧🔗https://github.com/commonknowledge/covid-19-mutual-aid-list-sync
COVID-19-mutual-aid-list-sync by Common Knowledge. This software keeps in sync the following lists of UK based COVID-19 Mutual Aid groups: a flat HTML list maintained by Freedom, a Google Spreadsheet maintained by COVID-19 Mutual Aid UK, an Airtable maintained by us at Common Knowledge (deprecated)
COVID AID UK
🇬🇧🔗https://www.facebook.com/CovidAidUK
Facebook Group for Mutual Aid
Mutual Aid Tech
🗣https://join.slack.com/t/mutualaidtech/shared_invite/zt-cod48mar-c6Wcj7zsOmZ8AcjRALk2LA
Meta group helping other Mutual Aid groups around the UK get started. (DEAD LINK)
Mutual Aid Airtable
🔗https://airtable.com/shrUCI7eE8xDqXLEx/tblFqGvhbICXwl493/viwenxDwDhhfOUiQu?blocks=hide
Full and complete list as an airtable which people are curating and adding to.
Corona Buddy
🇬🇧🔗https://www.coronabuddy.co.uk
Connecting communities in times of need
List of UK Community Hubs
Community hubs in the UK
Thread of Mutual Aid Groups
🇬🇧🔗https://twitter.com/MissEllieMae/status/1238426880233148419?s=20t seems that most of the suggestions from the thread are covered in the website above, but might be worth looking through if your area isn’t covered)
Local Helpers
Help self-isolating neighbours. Super simple - either offer things you can do for others, or say that you need help. The platform matches clients with volunteers. Think deliver food, collecting urgent medicine, etc. Built specifically for the COVID-19 situation and non-commercial.
Mutual Aid
created by volunteers for volunteers who decided to take action and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by self-organising into local groups on WhatsApp and Facebook and to find the nearest Mutual Aid volunteer. Volunteer map and sign up form. Positive safe vibes!
🇺🇸 United States
Mutual Aid Hub
🇺🇸🔗https://www.mutualaidhub.org/
Register and find MA networks in the US (Anti-virus warning may pop-up)
Mutual Aid Resource List
🇺🇸🔗https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p2ZJJPhOeF7xdzTcyXbDbAUXODLT1PMeQTEJPyfpdOg
Large (Inter)national Crowdsourced Mutual Aid & Advocacy Resources
Database of Localised Resources (US)
🇺🇸🔗https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HEdNpLB5p-sieHVK-CtS8_N7SIUhlMpY6q1e8Je0ToY
Database of Localized Resources - by Radical Comms Network
Mutual Aid Resource List, including Prisoner and Migrant Detention
Autonomous Groups Are Mobilizing Mutual Aid Initiatives To Combat The Coronavirus List of mutual aid groups by state (and sometimes at a more granular level).
Mutual Aid Networks Submission Form
🇺🇸🔗https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gFNrqRcV3WTQ5c5rgSFV8Pk1W1FLXaRqrwkFp2KVUjo/viewform
Power to the People: 40+ Grassroots Activists Step Up During the COVID-19 Crisis
A list of mutual-aid efforts to combat the pandemic, including
🇺🇸 United States Regions
Chicago
🇺🇸🔗https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd0MK1dnny1BTlzvohuRlnlC6fHqXKqez0hrZJLuZ6F4-qu9w/viewform
Chicago- COVID-19 Mutual Aid Volunteer Sign-up
Los Angeles
🇺🇸🔗https://forms.gle/CixkiRVteW1n5QVD9
Los Angeles- Ground Game LA Mutual Aid volunteer & needs intake
San Francisco
🔗🇺🇸https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gQlAmgIsXdEUdISa3gKYd5PX6eq6nc5WALdmNxQpNGw/edit#gid=0
San Francisco- How Can I Help? Project Consolidation (Bay Area)
Seattle
Seattle- Request Help Form
Duke University
🇺🇸🔗Duke University Mutual Aid Groups
Duke- This article provides information about a student-led mutual aid group that aims to provide help in the form of food, housing and transportation for members of the Duke community affected by the University’s decision to close campus.
Cambridge, MA
🇺🇸🔗https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x_gLUobYEodWYI4VBAC1hhjv0imZvQiM-uEEDxyZ3oE/edit?ts=5e6bdd12
Cambridge Neighborhood Aid Network - Cambridge, MA
Medford & Somerville
🇺🇸🔗https://mutualaidmamas.com/
Mutual Aid Medford and Somerville ‘MAMAS’ - towns of Medford & Somerville, MA
Arlington
🇺🇸🔗http://mutualaidarlington.org/
Mutual Aid Arlington - inspired by MAMAS, for Arlington, MA
Trumbull
🇺🇸🔗https://shoplocaltrumbull.pubpub.orgt
Supporting local shops Trumbull, CT
New York
We are a network of groups organizing to provide aid and support to New Yorkers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
🇩🇪 Germany
Solidarische Nachbarschaftshilfe
🇩🇪🔗https://listling.org/lists/pwfjfkpjmesjjinm/solidarische-nachbarschaftshilfe
List of Mutual Aid groups across Germany
Karada House
Queer Relief for COVID-19. In English and German.
Quarantaene Helden
network for self-registration to request/volunteer help
🇮🇪 Ireland
Self Isolation Help
🗣@HelenORahilly #SelfIsolationHelp
Resources related to UK and Eire, one of the original resources for COVID-19 support.
Support links in Eire
Short list of resources in Eire
Sligo Coronavirus Support
🇮🇪🔗https://sligohub.com/sligo-coronavirus-supports/
Resources for supporting communities and shops in Sligo, Eire
🇦🇺 Australia
Helpful Neighbours
🇦🇺🔗 https://www.helpfulneighbours.com.au/
A tool to match offers / requests for help during the pandemic within Australia (with a map)
Mutual Aid Network Australia
🇦🇺 🔗https://m.facebook.com/groups/206482517172457
Mutual Aid Network Australia - an emergent grassroots disaster relief network based on the principles of climate justice, solidarity, mutual aid, and autonomous direct action (Facebook group).
🇧🇪 Belgium
VUB
🇧🇪🔗https://press.vub.ac.be/solidarity-in-times-of-corona-in-belgium
Solidarity in times of Coronavirus Belgium
🇨🇳 China
Open Democracy
The social support networks stepping up in Coronavirus-stricken China
🇨🇿 Czech Republic
Denik Referendum
Initiative in Czech Republic
🇹🇳 Tunisia
Dev for Tunisia
🇹🇳🔗https://www.facebook.com/groups/DevForTunisia/
Tunisia Dev Community for COVID-19
Tunisia Makers
Tunisian Makers
Yes We Breathe
🇹🇳🔗https://www.facebook.com/groups/197977924766891/
Yes We Breathe ENISo & FMS
Yes We Breathe TUNIS
🇹🇳🔗https://www.facebook.com/groups/211124023294336
Yes We Breathe Tunis
Other Support Groups and Initiatives
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
People Powered UK
🇬🇧🔗https://peoplepowereduk.org/
People Powered is a collective of freelancers from across the entertainment and live event industries who came together to help the NHS and other frontline services after their diaries emptied because of the coronavirus.#HeretoHelp
🔗https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxHDoluaRUGqPiSWcoqOnqtqC974V42tQX3_HoZhR1e--ynw/viewform Sign up form
Queer Care
🇬🇧🔗https://www.facebook.com/queercare/
Queercare provides assistance for immunocompromised, asthmatic or otherwise at additional risk from COVID-19. You can also access useful resources and advice via their page. Queercare has volunteers nationally and is working on organising folk into more local groups and providing advice. A sign-up form is available here.
Freegle
🇬🇧🔗https://www.ilovefreegle.org/covid
Reuse- Freegle is a community reuse organisation in the UK. We have a lot of kind members across the country and are asking them to indicate whether they can help (or need help) at
Exeter Community Wellbeing
🇬🇧🔗 https://exeter.gov.uk/wellbeing
Region specific: Exeter.
Exeter Community Wellbeing has been created to assist individuals and community groups to help and support each other during this challenging time.
Online and telephone hotlines are available to gather information from people and organisations who want to offer their help and support to the community response.
Drug Runners
🇬🇧🔗https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/drug-runners-keep-medicines-moving-during-lockdown-5khm9lxxj
Drug runners keep medicines moving during lockdown
National Food Service
🇬🇧🔗https://www.nationalfoodservice.uk/
National access to food and community space
Help them Help Us
🇬🇧🔗https://www.helpthemhelpus.co.uk/
Help them Help us: an initiative to support the physical, mental, and day to day wellbeing of NHS staff across the UK.
The Ecologist
🇬🇧🔗https://theecologist.org/2020/mar/06/coronavirus-and-community-activism
Coronavirus and community activism in the UK
Green tick, red cross
🏴🔗https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/tiny-scots-village-creates-coronavirus-21719592.amp
Tiny Scots village creates Coronavirus hack that's pure genius
Corner shop COVID-19 Kits
🏴🔗https://www.thenational.scot/news/18303569.coronavirus-scottish-corner-shop-gives-kits-need/
Scottish corner shop gives kits to those in need
Listing Virtual Communities and Support Groups
Dealing with Coronaviruses and Pandemics Alternatively
🔗🗣https://www.facebook.com/groups/232903304555253/?ref=share
Dealing with Coronaviruses and Pandemics Alternatively- Aims to capture/archive alternative community-driven strategies that are inclusive and caring/nurturing to deal with viruses/pandemics
Coronavirus Discussion
🔗🗣https://www.facebook.com/groups/coronavirus.discussion
Split into multiple sub-threads: news; preparation and response; Q&A; emotional responses and silver linings; firsthand accounts. Past content archived here: http://bit.ly/2PFzTPA
Viral Exploration Lounge
🔗🗣https://www.facebook.com/groups/viralexplorationlounge/
For a laid back conversation, questions, etc. regarding the COVID-19 outbreak
r/Coronavirus
🔗🗣 https://www.reddit.com/r/coronavirus
r/Coronavirus- Seeks to monitor the spread of the disease COVID-19, declared a PHEIC by the WHO
r/COVID19
🔗🗣 https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19
r/COVID19- Seeks to facilitate scientific discussion of this potential global public health threat
The Golden Hearted UK
🔗https://m.facebook.com/groups/703270807162286?ref=m_notif¬if_t=commerce_interesting_product
'The Golden Hearted' Facebook group for people who want to help each other at difficult times.
Open Food Network
🔗 https://www.openfoodnetwork.org
A global network of people and organisations working together to build a new food system. Aims to empower people and communities and give them the tools and knowledge to develop the food systems they need for their community.
