“Mutual aid is collective coordination to meet each other's needs, usually from an awareness that the systems we have in place are not going to meet them.” Dean Spade

Mutual aid is not charity. It is solidarity in action! People coming together to care for one another because we understand that no one is coming to save us, and that the systems we’re told to rely on often leave us behind.

What Does Mutual Aid Mean to Us?
At the Resilience Fund Collective, mutual aid means organizing grassroots, community-driven responses to systemic harm. It means listening deeply to the unmet needs in our community. Especially the need for accessible, quality, and culturally rooted therapeutic support and responding together.

We are mobilizing resources to provide care that our systems neglect. Through collective action, resilience, and trust, we are creating access to body-based healing practices for those who have historically been excluded from wellness.

As Dean Spade reminds us, “Mutual aid exposes the current failures of a system and shows an alternative.” That’s exactly what we’re doing- revealing the cracks in the healthcare system and weaving together new ways to heal.

Our Mutual Commitments
Mutual aid, for us, is a practice of interdependence, not saviorism. It draws from long-standing traditions of collective care, including those held in Anishinaabe and other Indigenous communities, where reciprocity, relationship, and the sharing of resources are essential to survival and flourishing. ( Robin Wall Kimmerer)

We are practicing a living alternative: one rooted in dignity, equity, embodiment, and the truth that we heal better, together.