Need help right now? Have something to share? Check these PDX-Area Support, Mutual Aid & Assistance Projects

• Black Food Sovereignty Coalition is a group of Black farmers creating new food distribution networks between farms and tables, and convening a growing dialogue about food and racial justice. Donate here.

• Chehalis River Mutual Aid Network is working with PDX-area groups as well as regional projects.

• The Equi Institute works on advocacy work around queer and trans health care, including a medical committee at the C3PO villages. Also offering resource advice for folks writing in for healthcare. Email for services here, or donate here. 

• Don’t Shoot Portland hosts food and clothing giveaways, resource fairs, art shows, historical archiving workshops for BIPOC communities -- too many things to mention. Coming soon: Black mental health services through Safe Spaces for Black Lives Matter. Donate or participate here.

• Equitable Giving Circle is a Black led organization about economic change from the roots up. “Feeding BIPOC families with food from BIPOC farms.” Donate here.

• Free Hot Soup/Beautiful Portland is a growing network of volunteers cooking and delivering meals to unhoused and vulnerable people within the Portland metro area. Donation information and calls to volunteer here.

• Growing Gardens This nonprofit runs a hub of community organizers scattered around the metro area helping folks install and maintain food gardens at their homes, whether in containers on patios or rows in the dirt -- from seeds to fertilizer and installation help. They also run OSU Extension-certified gardening education programs for school kids as well as for incarcerated people in youth and adult prisons. Donate here.

• Milk Crate Kitchen provides cooked, ready to heat-and-eat family meals at no cost to anyone in need. A BIPOC organized and culinary professional-led nonprofit, MCK is based out of a commissary kitchen in Sullivan's Gulch. They cook weekly from scratch and deliver to the greater Portland area including individuals and households across the NE Portland neighborhoods since May 2020. 100% community-supported --volunteer-driven and donations-based.

• PDX Mutual Aid is a hub of grassroots projects most specifically sharing food. Check them out.

• PDX Wood Bloc’s Twitter profile says: Mutual aid in PDX, hoping to keep the community warm during the winter. DM if we can deliver some firewood to you or if you need some yard clean-up!

• Portland Free Fridge A network of refrigerators and pantries scattered  throughout Portland, stocked with  groceries, prepared meals, and basic household supplies. Mainly organized through Instagram. Here is a map of fridges and the financial donation page.

• Snack Bloc This group started out sharing food in protest spaces, including snacks, water, and basic supplies; now they also collect and deliver aid to indigenous groups, climate fire survivors, and others throughout the region. Donate money here.

• Symbiosis Hub & Resource Exchange This is a local chapter of a larger organization agitating for social change but also running an exchange with groceries, hot meals and more on Tuesdays and Thursdays, noon to 6 p.m. at the Social Justice Action Center. Donate money here.

Do you know of more mutual aid groups or projects in the PDX area or specifically North and Northeast Portland? Email them to lisa@necoalition.org. Thanks!