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Mutual Aid Groups in California

Browse 60 mutual aid groups and community organizations in California.

All Power Books

Volunteer-run bookshop + community space

Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP)

Grassroots organization coordinating mutual aid and community response initiatives

Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)

Building power in Asian immigrant and refugee communities for environmental, social, and economic justice

Asian Prisoner Support Committee - ROOTS Program

Supporting incarcerated Asian, Pacific Islander communities through ethnic studies and reentry planning

Nonprofit organization created and operated by and for people living with HIV/AIDS

Black Lives Matter Los Angeles

Official BLM Los Angeles chapter. Est. 7/13/13 to end state-sanctioned violence against Black people

Borderlands for Equity

Coordinates direct support for migrants and refugees at the border

Borderlands Relief Collective

Supplies aid to support human rights and to decrease the risk of death for border crossers

California Coalition for Women Prisoners

Monitoring prison conditions and advocating for release and reentry support of women and trans prisoners

California Immigrant Policy Center

Los Angeles, Sacramento, Oakland

Constituent-based immigrant rights organization, a leading immigrant rights institution

California IWOC

Union supporting incarcerated people's organizing efforts to abolish prisons

Causa Justa :: Just Cause (CJJC)

San Francisco/Oakland

Multi-racial, grassroots organization building community power through tenant rights advocacy, mutual aid, and organizing against gentrification

Chinatown Community for Equitable Development (CCED)

Builds grassroots power with low-income and immigrant communities through organizing, education, and mutual help

Chinese Progressive Association

Grassroots organization building collective power with working-class Chinese immigrants through mutual aid, worker and tenant organizing

Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA)

CA's largest immigrant rights organization. Founded in 1986

Coalition on Homelessness (SF)

Grassroots organization fostering mutual aid and solidarity through homeless advocacy and organizing

Communities for a Better Environment (CBE)

Northern & Southern CA

Environmental justice organization building power in working-class communities addressing environmental racism

Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ)

Youth-led organization building power through healing, leadership development, and community organizing to end youth incarceration

Comunidades Indigenas en Liderazgo (CIELO)

Indigenous women-led organization fostering mutual aid and solidarity through Indigenous community organizing

Contra Costa County Mutual Aid

Coordinating for elderly, those with health conditions. Service areas: Danville, Pleasanton, San Ramon.

Critical Resistance

Building an international movement to abolish the prison industrial complex through grassroots organizing, coalition building, political education, an...

Dare to Struggle (CA)

Revolutionary organization advancing liberation through mutual aid and direct action

Eviction Defense Collaborative

Legal services organization fostering mutual aid and housing justice through eviction defense and tenant support

Fresno Mutual Aid

Mutual aid serving Fresno.

Garment Worker Center

Worker center organizing with garment workers in Los Angeles to build power and fight exploitation

Human rights border coalition fostering mutual aid and community support for migrants and refugees

Nationally recognized center for social justice fostering mutual aid and community care in the Tenderloin since 1963

Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice

Committed to fighting racism, organizing for immigrant rights, LGBTQI+ rights, and fighting against US imperialism

Hoover-Foster and Longfellow Neighborhood COVID-19 Relief

West Oakland neighborhood relief fund.

Justice Teams Network

Coordinating rapid response and mutual aid for survivors of state violence with crisis response teams

LA Community Fridges

Free food. Take what you need, leave what you can

LA Tenants Union

Local chapters across the city organizing around neighborhood issues and linking to the larger movement for tenant power and housing justice

Lavender Phoenix

Grassroots organization building power for LGBTQ+ Asian & Pacific Islanders through mutual aid and community organizing

Líderes Campesinas

Grassroots organization serving farmworker women with mutual aid, leadership development, and advocacy for workers' and gender rights

Los Angeles Community Health Project

Bringing harm reduction services, needle exchange, and outreach to communities throughout Los Angeles since 1992

Modesto Community Support

Facilitate and coordinate assistance in Modesto and surrounding areas.

Grassroots collective managing a community center focused on mutual aid, social justice, and radical generosity

People's Open Network

Community-owned and operated wireless network providing mutual aid through free internet access

Grassroots environmental and economic justice organization building power in SF's Latinx immigrant communities

Bring dependable food access and culturally relevant nourishment to food insecure communities

Grassroots, non-profit media, arts and education organization providing voice and visibility for communities in poverty

Mutual aid collective fostering solidarity and support for LGBTQ+ people in prison

Punks with Lunch

Mutual aid collective providing direct support, harm reduction services, and community care in Oakland

Queer-centered hackerspace and community workshop fostering mutual aid through technology education and skill-sharing

Racial Justice Coalition of San Diego

Grassroots coalition fostering mutual aid and community power through racial justice organizing

San Francisco Tenants Union

Member-supported organization fighting for tenants' rights and housing justice

SF Anti-Displacement Coalition

Coalition of community organizations fostering mutual aid and housing justice through collective organizing against displacement

Community network coordinating mutual aid efforts and connecting neighbors to share resources across San Francisco

Stop LAPD Spying Coalition

Community group working to build community power toward abolishing police surveillance

Street Watch LA

Fighting to empower and protect the rights of poor/unhoused tenants across LA

Summa Everythang

Watts/South Central Los Angeles

Free organic produce box donations for Watts and South Central Los Angeles

Worker-owned restaurant and mutual aid hub providing sliding-scale meals and community support

Tenants Together

Coalition fostering housing justice through tenant organizing, rights education, and building power through collective action

The Women's Building

Women-led community space and mutual aid hub providing direct support, resource sharing, and solidarity networks

Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural

Northeast San Fernando Valley

Transform community through ancestral knowledge, the arts, literacy and creative engagement

Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa Conservancy

Receiving and managing land back, building community for Native people, practicing traditional ceremonies

Trans Defense Fund LA

Anticapitalist LA mutual aid project by an ally, self-defense resources for trans BIPOC, NOT a non-profit

Transformative Programming Works

Building mutual aid networks and support systems for formerly incarcerated individuals

Wood Street Commons

Working with others to build a movement in Oakland for housing as a human right

Youth Justice Coalition

Youth-led organization fostering mutual aid and community power through organizing against the criminalization of young people

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