Resource Database
Search below for opportunities to get help, give help, or donate to people in your community.
Operation Food Search
Who can get help: Anyone suffering from food insecurity.
Who can give help: Anyone
What: A resource for finding and accessing food in your community. Operation Food Search distributes more than 35 million dollars worth of food and necessities to 330 community partners in 31 Missouri and Illinois counties and in the city of St. Louis.
Contact: 314-726-5355 x1 or TEXT your ZIP CODE to (785) 503-3310
Mutual Aid Solidarity Network
Who can get help: Anyone, in particular people who are sick, disabled, quarantined without pay, elderly, undocumented, queer, Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color -- including those displaced from Seattle to the nearby areas.
Who can give help: Anyone
What: An all volunteer group coordinating food and supply drop offs to people’s front doors.
Contact: covid19mutualaidsea@gmail.com
Another Round, Another Rally Fund
Who can get help: Hospitality workers who have lost their jobs or had hours slashed due to COVID-19
What: $500 relief grants for hospitality workers who lost their jobs or had their hours slashed in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. We’re also collecting donations from community members willing to help their hospitality-industry friends and neighbors stay afloat in this time of uncertainty
NYC Paid Sick Leave
Who can get help: Employees in New York City
What: Learn about employee rights to sick leave in NYC
NYC Small Business Services
Who can get help: Small business owners in New York City
What: Financial support for small business owners in NYC
Invisible Hands
Who: Anyone in need of a food delivery in New York and New Jersey. Invisible Hands will delivery the food and subsidize up to $30 of the food costs.
What: Safe, free deliveries for the most at-risk community members facing COVID-19.
Contact: 732-639-1579 or InvisibleHandsDeliver@gmail.com
City Meals
Who can get help: People 60+, unable to prepare nutritious meals or have no one to do so for you, able to live safely at home if services are provided to you, and physically or mentally incapacitated and in need of some assistance
Who can help: Anyone
What: Hand delivering meals to New Yorkers.
Contact: 212-687-1234 or info@citymeals.org
GetCalFresh.org
Who can get help: Anyone applying to CalFresh (SNAP California food stamps)
What: CalFresh is California’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), often known as food stamps. GetCalFresh.org helps you apply & book an appointment online easily. They are an authorized California application assistance tool.
City of Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture Artist Relief Fund
Who can get help: Individual artists living in Boston
What: Grants of $500 and $1000 to individual artists who live in Boston whose creative practices and incomes are being adversely impacted by Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19)
Emergency Grants - New York Foundation for the Arts
Who: Artists living in New York City, Boston, Seattle, or Columbus, Ohio.
What: Website providing links to organizations in; Boston, Columbus, OH, NYC, Seattle,
Massachusetts Mutual Aid Networks
Who can get help: People living in Massachusetts
What: Mutual Aid networks are set up in times of crisis to help neighborhoods with emergency response. This community-sourced google doc contains info for many neighborhoods in Massachusetts, including neighborhood point people, grocery information, lost income support, and more.
Greater Boston Food Bank SNAP
Who can get help: SNAP is for everyone—families, seniors, disabled, homeless, unemployed, employed, veterans, and active military. If you are within the income limits, you may be eligible.
What: GBFB also offers assistance with applications for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. SNAP benefits are put on an electronic card that is used like an ATM or bank card, and can be used at most supermarkets, convenience stores, and some farmers’ markets.
Contact: 617-598-5022
Food For Free COVID-19 Volunteer Response
Who can get help: Applicants must live in Cambridge, and because of a disability or impairment, be unable to use existing food pantries. Applicants must also qualify as low-income under HUD guidelines (less than $34,350 per year for one person).
Who can help: People living in or near Cambridge
What: Food for Free brings food to low-income Cambridge residents who are unable to access traditional food pantries due to illness or disability. Food for Free differs from meals-on-wheels programs because it brings groceries to people so that the recipients can cook their own food. It gives seniors and people with disabilities more control over their meals, while providing a supportive service that helps them to stay in their own homes.
Phone: 617-868-2900
Concerned to Go Out
Who can get help: Individuals in Boston concerned to go out due to physical or mental limitations
Who can give help: Individuals in Boston willing to travel and deliver items
What: Concerned To Go Out is a web-app built by developers in Boston to connect those willing to travel and deliver items during the COVID-19 outbreak to those who are concerned to go out, due to either physical or mental limitations
Contact: concernedtogoout@gmail.com
Feeding America
Who can get help: Anyone who is in need of food.
Who can give help: Anyone
What: Feeding America is a United States–based nonprofit organization that is a nationwide network of more than 200 food banks that feed more than 46 million people through food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, and other community-based agencies.