Mutual Aid and Nonprofits: How can your organization increase capacity by supporting grassroots community groups?
How can your organization increase capacity by supporting grassroots community groups?
FREE WEBINAR for nonprofit professionals: Thursday April 2, from 3:00-5:00 PM Eastern
In times of crisis, small groups of neighbors come together to meet needs in their community. These efforts are often able to be nimbler and more responsive than large organizations and systems. Learn how to effectively utilize these networks to increase your organization's capacity during the COVID-19 crisis, and those to come.
Participants will gain a basic understanding of what mutual aid is, how it’s been implemented locally and beyond. They will learn how mutual aid groups function under normal circumstances, and how that looks different during a pandemic. They will hear about the lessons learned by a Hurricane Katrina mutual aid responder, and how those lessons can be applied to the current situation. They will learn what their organizations can do to support the work of mutual aid networks, and increase their organization’s capacity by doing so.
Please register for this free webinar in advance. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Meet the presenters
Suncere Ali Shakur
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief
(he/him)
Suncere has been doing mutual aid work and community organizing for the last two decades. He has trained community members in first aid and emergency response. He organized hurricane relief after both Sandy and Katrina, and has impacted countless lives.
Chrissy Stonebraker-Martinez
IRTF InterReligious Task Force on Central America
(they/them)
Chrissy has witnessed humanitarian disasters in Central and South America, the Middle East, and at the southern US border. They can share lessons learned in those dire situations and apply them to what is being seen on the ground across the US today.
Maggie Rice
NEOCH, and Food Not Bombs
(she/her)
Maggie has done mutual aid work locally in northeast Ohio for the last five years. She can define mutual aid and its differences from the traditional charity/service provider model, and provide information about what mutual aid looks like on the ground currently in our community.