CORONAVIRUS RESOURCE KIT
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>>NEW RESOURCES ADDED MARCH 20<<
This kit is a collectivized document that will be updated as more mutual aid projects and resources appear online. Recognizing that not everyone will have access to great internet to access some of these, I encourage you to apply these offline as well as online. Please be aware: there is a lot of disinformation online, as always: be sure to triple check resources and the source. Ironically, most of the resources here come from survivors and those marginalized by state violence, so in a sense, prepared to respond to a crisis when there’s no social safety net.
This compilation features resources from disabled, queer, elderly, Asian, and indigenous people. Mutual aid projects from Seattle, Philadelphia, DC, Twin Cities, Boston, and Chicago have been added below. We also recommend this other toolkit that has specific geographic sections and this incredible database of localized resources.
Contents:
For Parents, Educators, and Guardians
DC, Baltimore, and DMV Resources
Crowdfunding and Community Care
Government (Sample Advocacy Demands and Policy Platforms)
Emergency Contacts
Text COVID to 692-692 for NOTIFY NYC Emergency Updates
Co-quarantined with an abuser? Worried about having to self-isolate from #coronavirus in a dangerous home situation? Please reach out — contact @ndvh | National Domestic Violence Hotline: CALL 1−800−799−7233 or TTY 1−800−787−3224 or CHAT at http://thehotline.org
For medical emergencies, read One Medical’s ‘What You Should Know About Coronavirus’ for symptoms, plans of action and recommendations. Call 911 and alert them you may be showing Coronavirus symptoms, so they can come prepared.
We recommend everyone create local threads of communication with everyone in your network: neighbors, parents, close friends, cousins, homeless community members, students, and those you would like to be in communication with and provide emergency information during these times. Share resources, talk to your neighbors, and check in on the elderly and those with chronic disabilities.
Data
COVID-19 DATA PACK from Information is Beautiful: bit.ly/COVID19-DATA
Most useful COVID-19 resources
Know the Symptoms by Mona Chalabi
(Arabic, Spanish, French, Russian, German, Farsi, Turkish)
Resources
Mutual Aid Projects
Listings of #covid-19 mutual aid initiatives (Spreadsheet + Google Form)
COVID Mutual Aid Community Care Resource List
Includes models of mutual aid, food lists, fact sheets and hygiene items
Database of Localized Resources During Corona Outbreak
COVID Messengers on IG - Free Deliveries Across the Country
How to do a coronavirus prep door knock to care for your neighbors. Via sarah_at_play
Get your student loans down to $0 if you’ve lost work.
Walela Nehanda - Thread where “ppl who are in areas with disinfectant supplies say they are willing to send a couple items out to immune suppressed ppl who don’t have any in their city? Or immunosuppressed ppl say what they need??”
- Google Doc: WILLING TO HELP IMMUNE COMPROMISED PPL IN NEED
Asian American Feminist Collective - Call for Stories
Funding Requests
Financial Assistance
Everywhere in the U.S.
- Emergency Funds for Undocumented People via NYSYLC
- COVID-19 Black Emergency Support Fund from BLM
- File for Unemployment
- COVID Financial Solidarity: Ask and give money! Guidelines here.
If your livelihood is being directly impacted by the Coronavirus crisis and you need support, post requests on this spreadsheet. If you are a white-collar employee working from home and still being paid your full salary, fulfill the requests below. GIVE GENEROUSLY: the only way to earn what you have, is to give it away.
- Resources for Freelance Artists
An aggregated list of FREE resources, opportunities, and financial relief options available to artists of all disciplines. - COVID-19 Mutual Aid Fund for LGBTQI+ BIPOC Folks (Applications for funding closed, but you can still donate).
States
Visual mapping of global community mutual aid support networks and fundraisers: arcg.is/1a4LOn
General Northwest Resources Link
Daytona/Miami FL: Mutual Aid Sign Up
Morris County, NJ: Mutual Aid Chain
UK: Queercare UK Food Distribution
Denver, CO: Denver Metro Area Artist Relief Fund
Minnesota: Website for COVID-19 Response
DC, Baltimore, and DMV Resources
Baltimore Mutual Aid Spreadsheet Baltimore Neighborhoods Mutual Aid Links DMV Restaurant Workers Relief Fund Takoma DC Community Care & Mutual Aid Form (see copyable template above to start your own in your neighborhood) Mutual Aid & Support for Independent Artists from p0stb1nary DC going through unstable unemployment |
Illinois Resources
Letter to Governor J.B. Pritzker on Coronavirus in IL Prisons Chicago COVID-19 Hardship and Help Page from Transformative Spaces Chicago COVID-19 Mutual Aid Volunteer Sign-up |
Washington Resources
Seattle Queer Community Mutual Aid Intake Seattle Area Request for Support for COVID-19 (English) Seattle Area Request for Support for COVID-19 (Spanish) Seattle Restaurant Workers Fund Seattle Sex Worker Aid Network Initiative Coronavirus in WA State Prisons POC Restaurants w Delivery in Seattle Petition calling for evictions Seattle, Eastside (major zone for Coronavirus): Link to donate Tacoma, WA: Coronavirus Delivery Sign Up |
California Resources
NYC Resources
NYC United Against Coronavirus MASTER DOC NYC Mutual AID Network - Google document. Neighbor Support Network NYC NYC Mutual Aid Volunteers List: This is a place to offer support for other New Yorkers in and beyond your neighborhood. Go to #3 to set up a neighborhood-specific pod, or find one that exists. Requests for Support (NYC Mutual Aid Intake Form) This is a place to ask for what you need, and share some ideas for what we can do to support you and your community. There is no ask that is too big, though we may not be able to match everything asked. Adaptable Neighborhood Outreach Flyer by Mayday Space Hotline will remain OPEN with new expanded hours! 212-979-0611 Mon & Wed 1:30-8pm Tue 5:30-8pm (NEW) Fri 1:30-5pm Home looking for something to do? We need more volunteers! Help BLK PALATE Cook and Distribute Food Food Bank 4 NYC - Needs Volunteers & $$$ NYC Dyke Bar Takeover Direct Action Emergency Fund for Gig Workers Service Workers Coalition NY - Needs Volunteers & $$$ Cuir Kitchen Brigade Food Resources Mutual Aid Neighborhood Coordination Spreadsheet Neighborhoods
NYC Shut it Down Feed the People @nycshutitdown on all platforms Longstanding NYC abolitionist group serving hot food on the third Saturday of every month at Hunts Point Plaza and Bruckner Blvd in the Bronx at 5 p.m. and the last Monday of every month at 116th and Lexington in Manhattan at 7 p.m. Also sometimes has hygiene supplies and clothing. Food Not Bombs Manhattan abcnorio.org/affiliated/fnb.html Serves hot food in the southwest area of Tompkins Square Park every Sunday from 4-6 p.m. Food Not Bombs Bed-Stuy bedstuyfnb.org Passes out groceries at Marcy and Lafayette in Bed-Stuy every Saturday at 3 p.m. Club A @club_a_nyc on IG Serves hot food and passes out harm reduction supplies at 354 Stockton St. Brooklyn Saturdays approximately from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Lots of businesses also throw out perfectly good food they would’ve sold five minutes before every night! |
Twin Cities
Twin Cities Financial Solidarity Spreadsheet (offers of help to the community) |
Boston Resources
Boston, MA Coronavirus Resource Kit Boston: Boston Opportunity Fund for Artists (Application) Massachusetts (Jamaica Plain, Boston): Mutual Aid Offerings Massachusetts (Tufts): Mutual Aid for Students MA: For Employers in MA: Sign the Pledge to offer paid sick leave |
New Orleans
Pennsylvania Resources
Mutual Aid for Students (CMU) and another (University of Pittsburgh) |
Portland, OR
Texas
Ohio Resources
Mutual Aid Sign Up Central Ohio |
For Artists
Media / Political Education
Government (Sample Advocacy Demands and Policy Platforms)
From Big Door Brigade
