The Ward 3 Mutual Aid team is part of the DC Mutual Aid Network, a citywide grassroots movement initiated by BIPOC organizers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mutual aid is direct support among neighbors. In our first year, the Ward 3 team answered over 4,000 calls on our community hotline, and made over 1,400 grocery deliveries in our ward. Almost four years later, we continue to receive at least 5-10 calls each week from neighbors facing food insecurity, housing insecurity, and other types of economic precarity, including the consistent lack of adequate and accessible City resources. The need for resources far exceeds our available funding, and so we have had to pause taking requests for food assistance for the time being (since September 2023). To help us get back on track, please consider making a monthly contribution or increasing your monthly donation..

Ward 3 is the whitest and wealthiest ward in the city. We approach our organizing through a lens of wealth redistribution and reparations to Black and brown residents who experience structural racism and displacement in our rapidly gentrifying city. With the wealth in Ward 3, we should be able to support Ward 3 neighbors and contribute regularly to mutual aid organizing throughout DC.

Although our mutual aid network began in immediate response to the COVID pandemic, mutual aid existed and thrived in DC prior to the pandemic. Mutual aid will continue to be a necessary means for us to meet one another's needs. We need consistent funding to maintain our current operations and meet the ongoing needs of our neighbors. 

Have questions or want to  join our organizing for collective liberation? Send us an email ([email protected]) or complete the sign-up form to organize alongside us and develop relationships with neighbors that are rooted in radical care.