MUTUAL AID

MUTUAL AID

Mission: We are everyday New Yorkers working to lift up local organizing, connect people to resources, and build a citywide movement to address this crisis. Our members include parents, elders, immigrants, people with disabilities and chronic illness, caregivers, care workers, organizers, advocates, and anyone else who wants to get involved. We are building interdependence through mutual aid. This means we can at the same time be someone who needs care and support as well as who can show up for others. We value, prioritize, and listen to those most vulnerable and those on the frontlines of this crisis. We know that the frontlines include those who are oppressed and struggling under white supremacy, xenophobia, and capitalism, as well as those who are now newly at tremendous risk of pain, suffering, and loss of life. Many of the groups organized to provide aid and support in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to provide mutual aid in their communities.

Website: https://mutualaid.nyc/get-involved/volunteer/
Email: https://mutualaid.nyc/contact/
Phone: N/A

Link above is a citywide application; click on borough/neighborhood names below for specific mutual aid volunteer forms:

• Astoria

• Bed-Stuy

• Boerum Hill/Brooklyn Heights/Cobble Hill/Carroll Gardens

• Boerum Hill/Downtown Brooklyn

• Bronx

• Brooklyn

• Clinton Hill/Fort Greene

• Crown Heights

• Ditmas Park/Flatbush/Prospect Park South

• Equality for Flatbush (serving Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, Bushwick, Canarsie, Coney Island, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, East New York, Flatbush, Fort Greene, Kensington, Marine Park, and Mill Basin)

• Gowanus

• Harlem

• Long Island City

• Prospect Heights

• Queens

• Red Hook

• Ridgewood

• Service Workers’ Coalition

• South Brooklyn

• Staten Island

• Sunnyside/Woodside

• UES

• Upper Morningside Heights

• Upper West Side

• Williamsburg/North Brooklyn

• Wise Towers NYCHA

What volunteers do:

• pick up/deliver groceries and other essentials

• pick up/deliver prescriptions

• 1-on-1 check-ins and social support (phone call, Zoom, etc. to touch base with a neighbor)

• provide financial support

• translate and interpret in a language other than English

• serve as local volunteer coordinators

• provide social services guidance (filing for medicare, unemployment, etc)

• organize digitally

Depending on mutual-aid group, volunteers may also:

• provide childcare or eldercare

• flyer the neighborhood

• deliver hot meals

• walk pets

• provide transportation

• provide access to WiFi /internet/printer

• provide legal information on housing issues

• provide ASL interpretation

• raise funds

• provide social services rapid response (for therapists, case managers, medical workers, lawyers)

• research resources

• assemble food and supplies for deliveries

• cook/prepare food

• provide technology/design

• provide legal support

• do laundry

• offer virtual tutoring

• sew masks

Borough: All