🌱 Fundraiser 4 Mutual Aid and Community Care 🌱

Support 4 organizations doing powerful, everyday work to care for their communities

We’re raising funds to uplift and resource four mutual aid organizations who show up consistently to meet the real, immediate needs of their people. These groups provide food, housing support, transportation, medical care, harm reduction supplies, emotional support, and more—no strings attached. They do this work with love, intention, and deep commitment to community.

✨ Why Mutual Aid?
Because we take care of us.
Because no one is disposable.
Because our survival is bound up with one another.

Mutual aid is when people get together to meet each other’s basic survival needs with a shared understanding that the systems we live under are not going to meet our needs—and we can do it together RIGHT NOW! (bigdoorbrigade.com).

It’s not charity. It’s solidarity.
It’s not top-down help. It’s side-by-side care.
As durhammutualaid.org says, "Mutual aid is about recognizing that the dominant system is not meeting all of our needs for survival and that we can organize to meet each other’s needs now."

This video is a great explanation of mutual aid (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYPgTZeF5Z0).

🖤 This fundraiser is about two things:

Getting tangible resources—cash, supplies, support—into the hands of organizations who are already doing the work
Spreading awareness of mutual aid as a tool for collective liberation

🔥 Meet the Beneficiaries 🔥

💫 Gallop Gang CLT (patreon.com/gallopgang)
A Black-led, Charlotte-based collective of caregivers offering direct material support, emotional care, healing justice, and anti-capitalist aid to those surviving systemic neglect. Gallop Gang builds solidarity by redistributing resources, reimagining community safety, and loving people radically.

🌺 Kimbritive (kimbritive.com)
An intergenerational collective centering Black women and femmes through curated healing spaces, creative practices, and mutual aid. Kimbritive blends cultural preservation, community education, and soul-nourishing care to sustain Black liberation and legacy.

🌻 North Durham Mutual Aid (durhammutualaid.org/north)
Rooted in the heart of Durham, this network provides weekly food distribution, rides, emergency supplies, and material support—while building relationships and mutual trust across neighbors. They model what it means to rely on and show up for each other consistently.

🥣 Claremont Soup Kitchen – Meal Service (claremontsoupkitchen.wordpress.com)
A small but mighty New Hampshire-based kitchen offering hot meals, groceries, clothing, and essentials to local residents in need. They uphold the dignity of every person who walks through their doors with hospitality, compassion, and no judgment.

If any of these beneficiary organizations speak to you, learn more about them and support them directly if you can.

Will you donate what you can to support mutual aid in action?

Whether it's $5, $50, or $500, your contribution will help people meet urgent needs with dignity and care—and it will affirm the power of grassroots movements to build the world we deserve.

📅 This fundraiser will run through Aug 15, 2025, and 100% of funds raised (after platform fees) will be distributed equally among the four featured organizations.

We believe in a world where all of us are held, where care isn’t conditional, and where survival is a collective project. Thank you for standing with us in this vision and offering what you can with an open heart.

With deep gratitude,
Whitney Skillen

Fundraising 4 Mutual Aid and Community Care