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Articles about Mutual Aid
10 articles across 3 sections
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Community
Faith Community Preparedness Guide
A practical guide for churches, synagogues, mosques and temples: choose a safe emergency role, write the plan, work with local partners and know when to stop.
Build an Interfaith Disaster Network
How congregations of different traditions can form a disaster network: a one-page charter, a shared capability list, written agreements and a yearly rhythm.
Church Disaster Donations and Supplies
How a church or faith community handles disaster donations: why cash comes first, what goods to accept, how to count and store them, and how to hand them out.
Church Disaster Volunteer Management
How a faith community turns offers of help after a disaster into safe, supervised work: task cards, sign-in, briefing, screening by task and walk-in volunteers.
Community Resilience: Build Connection Before a Disaster
Four ways to build community connection before a disaster: faith groups, community gardens, neighbor networks and CERT. Sourced guides and simple first steps.
How to Start a Mutual Aid Network and Keep It Going
Mutual aid is organized favors between neighbors. How to start a small network, protect privacy, handle money and keep it going past the first year.
The Long View: Why Connected Households Outlast Isolated Ones
Retreat, compound, or community? The research on what actually carries households through hard times, and why the isolated strategy fails where the connected one works.
Section
Gear and Buying Guides
A Paradise Built in Hell
Rebecca Solnit
Community Preparedness & Civic Resilience, Recommended Books
Books about the civic institutions, mutual aid, community organizing, and shared spaces that determine how neighborhoods survive and recover. Curated for New World Survival readers.