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Mutual Aid Medford and Somerville

Organzing our neighbors and pooling our resources to create a better community for everyone.

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Mutual Aid Medford and Somerville is fundraising! Help MAMAS reach our goal: $2,500 in new monthly donations, to cover grocery cards and direct cash assistance to our neighbors. 

Click “Contribute” above or scroll down to find all the ways you can donate. 

In Mutual Aid we believe everyone has something they need and everyone has something to give. Do you have $5, $20, or even $100 in your monthly budget to give toward supporting your neighbors in Medford and Somerville? Many of our neighbors need money to pay for groceries and bills, and they rely on MAMAS like you to help! 

Right now MAMAS distributes over $7,000 a month in direct aid, thanks to recurring contributions from 130 of your neighbors who believe in the MAMAS mission of solidarity, not charity. But the need is still great, and we are spending all of that 7k and more each month. With another $2,500 a month we could distribute cash grants to 10 community members, or help 15 households with groceries. And if we reach an additional $5000 per month we can do both. Let’s grow our monthly donations so we can provide reliable, direct support and food security to more neighbors, for as long as they need it. 
 

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Financial Contributions

Membership
Recurring Donation

Make a recurring contribution to mutual aid work.

Starts at$5 USD

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Membership
Pair Sponsor

Sponsor a pairing! Households of 1-2 people get $100 per month in grocery gift cards. The more sponsors we have the more households we can support.

$100 USD / month

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Membership
Pair Sponsor 2

Sponsor a pairing! Households of 3-5 people get $200 per month in grocery gift cards. The more sponsors we have the more households we can support

$200 USD / month

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Custom contribution
Donation
Make a custom one-time or recurring contribution.

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Projects

Support the following initiatives from Mutual Aid Medford and Somerville.

Project
Support efforts to cultivate garden fresh veggies to sustain the MAMAS community!

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MAMAS is organizing a holiday gift drive.

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Project
Redistributing money to unbanked neighbors in Somerville

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+ 4
Project
MAMAS is raising money to buy all seasons of clothes for our community!

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Project
Group shopping and grocery card delivery events organized monthly

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Project
Neighbors receive regular grocery or grocery cards deliveries from their pairs

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Mutual Aid Medford and Somerville is all of us

Our contributors 388

Thank you for supporting Mutual Aid Medford and Somerville.

Meghan Hickey

Admin

$2,575 USD

Rachel

Admin

$1,300 USD

Skylar Karzhe...

Admin

$486 USD

Melaine

Admin

$415 USD

Josh G

Admin

$250 USD

Miriam

Admin

$73 USD

Claire

Admin

A

Admin

James Boskey ...

$30,000 USD

Clara S.

$14,091 USD

Budget


Transparent and open finances.

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Today’s balance

$9,385.22 USD

Total raised

$203,789.30 USD

Total disbursed

$194,404.08 USD

Estimated annual budget

$192,192.74 USD

Expenses

All time

Expenses paid

380

Amount disbursed

$117,159.41

Tags# of ExpensesAmount (USD)
grocery pairs
177$40,952.18
cash assistance
129$37,905.58
supermarket sweep
11$22,745.99
no tag
28$6,122.39
misc support
20$5,400.52
waitlist assistance
6$1,706.74
Others Combined
9$2,326.01

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Contributions

All time

Contributions received

394

Amount collected

$178,349.50

Tiers# of ContributionsAmount (USD)
recurring
182$126,775.04
one-time
212$51,574.46

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Today's Balance
$9,385.22
Estimated Annual Budget
$192,193

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News from Mutual Aid Medford and Somerville

Updates on our activities and progress.

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Published on December 21, 2022 by Skylar Karzhevsky

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Published on May 27, 2022 by Skylar Karzhevsky

MAMAS Cash Assistance Initiative

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Published on April 26, 2022 by Skylar Karzhevsky