Updates
Updates on our activities and progress.
Most recent
New donation fund now active!
Published on May 26, 2024 by Nikki DelZenero
Hello neighbors, We are writing to share with you the new location for supporting us financially! As you may know, Open Collective Foundation is in the process of dissolving. We are now set up with a new fiscal sponsor, Hac...
Open Collective Foundation dissolution
Published on March 15, 2024 by Nikki DelZenero
Contribute to Wicker Park Bucktown Mutual Aid to see this Update
End of 2023 Update
Published on December 22, 2023 by Nikki DelZenero
Greetings from the tail-end of 2023! This year a group of us in Wicker Park and Bucktown continued to try to fight the good fight:we delivered food almost every Saturday to neighborswe helped to rescue food from grocery stores that otherwis...
End of Year Update
Published on December 22, 2022 by Nikki DelZenero
Hello Neighbors! 2022 was a very busy year for us! The racist, sexist, transphobic, profit-driven system we live under (from which white cis males often prosper) continued to distribute the resources it pillages in an alarmingly unequal man...
Community Cash Assistance Program
Published on June 14, 2021 by Nikki DelZenero
WPB Mutual Aid is a group of neighbors who aim to work together to figure out strategies and resources to meet each other’s needs. We implement these strategies in a variety of ways – one of them is accepting donations from neighbors to be...
November Recap + December events
Published on December 21, 2020 by Pauline
to Volunteers - Wicker Park-Bucktown Mutual Aid Hi neighbors! Throughout November, we welcomed many new members, redistributed resources across the city, delivered weekly food boxes to neighbors in need, and shared winter items and...
October recap, ways to get involved locally, and...a hotline!
Published on November 12, 2020 by Pauline
(Nov 5, 2020) Good evening neighbors! We hope everyone has had a safe and enjoyable October! - Thank you to everyone who helped out this month. We helped move 1152 food boxes weekly, plus distributed ready-made meals & hand sanitizer to...
Newsletter Update: July 31, 2020
Published on October 9, 2020 by Wicker Park-Bucktown Mutual Aid
Hi neighbors of Wicker Park & Bucktown, The past 3 weeks have brought in more aid requests than we’ve seen in previous months, and so we send a GIANT thanks to everyone* who’s been able to help provide basic needs and/or wellness to our...
Newsletter update: September-ish Recap + October Opportunities
Published on October 9, 2020 by Pauline
Hello neighbors, new subscribers and old! While it's been all quiet on our social media and newsletter front, we've still been making moves in our community every Friday. FOOD DISTRO UPDATES In partnership with 9 other nort...
WP/BT Mutual Aid Update
Published on August 8, 2020 by Wicker Park-Bucktown Mutual Aid
Our volunteers have been making weekly deliveries including groceries, hygiene supplies, cleaning supplies, medical supplies, clothes, toys, and in-kind donations to other organizations whose missions align with ours. These donations go dir...
Page of 1