OCF Updates We Love β Autumn 2021
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Check out these inspirational updates from initiatives hosted by Open Collective Foundation:
π Rogers Parks Free Store has distributed over 14,000 necessary items within their community in Chicago.
π Study-into-Action shares their next steps following the completion of their cohort to progress the solidarity economy movement. View all the recordings here.
π The Endurance Scholarship celebrates 1 year of awarding scholarships to Chicagoland students of color.
π We Got This Seattle has raised over $80,000 to provide to over 50,000 frontline workers.
π Ridgewood Community Garden is fundraising to improve their communal plots in Queens, NY.
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π FAVOR (Food Access Volunteers of Roslindale) has grown its partnerships in order to distribute food in Boston, MA. More info about how to get involved here.
![FAVOR's campaign "Pass on your P-EBT" to help the food insecure](https://opencollective-production.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/b7698d70-f61b-11eb-b20a-1bbcf115c607.gif)
π The Womanist Working Collective is hosting a healers and helpers therapy matchmaking virtual event this November 21.
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π We welcome new initiative San Antonio Review, a publication of original essays, poetry, art, & theory to OCF. Volume V is now available for purchase.
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π Drive by Howdy's team works hard to provide resources and support to the unhoused people of Austin, TX.
π GeekBeacon Foundation has extended their social good virtual conference to be a multi-day event with an extra track focus on mental health & wellness.
![GeekBeacon's New Merch - black baseball cap with a robot](https://blog.opencollective.com/content/images/2021/11/GeekBeaconAutumn2021.jpg)
π Ward 2 Mutual Aid supports their DC community to fulfill mutual aid requests, aid unhoused neighbors, and build solidarity.
π Food Not Bombs Raleigh has recently gained access to an industrial kitchen for cooking, has a thriving community garden, delivers groceries to families, set up free pantries throughout the city, and fulfilled clothing requests to those in need in NC.
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Food Not Bombs Raleigh Autumn 2021 Activities
π Ward 2 Mutual Aid is organizing resistance against forced evictions, distributing cash assistance, delivering groceries, operating a bilingual "warm line", and fills mutual aid requests in Washington, DC.
π Social Health Labs has awarded two microgrants to recipients making social health a priority.
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Social Health Labs MicroGrant Recipients
π Circle City Mutual Aid shares free basic needs, survival, hygiene, and harm reduction items with the downtown Indianapolis community every Sunday, no questions asked.
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π Deportation Accountability Project received support to file almost $400 worth of FOIA requests to bring deportation decisions into the public light.
π Community Kitchen MPLS's volunteers make, pack, and deliver hundreds of meals each week to unhoused neighbors in Minneapolis.
![Community Kitchen MPLS August 2021 Totals: 1,400 meals at 60 cents each](https://opencollective-production.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/72bfbb30-1ce1-11ec-a0da-615aaa1d88e6.jpg)
π Privacy Guides has grown beyond a simple website into a thriving community full of resources and users.
π ABQ Free Fridge built and opened their first free fridge in New Mexico!
![ABQ Free Fridge's First freedge in Albuquerque](https://opencollective-production.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/5874b770-047d-11ec-809a-ebce7d3bdf1c.jpg)
π ATX Mental Health Fund has redistributed more than $20,000 since starting out last year.
π Minneapolis Quarry Community Mutual Aid works to keep their community safe and clean and residents provided with tents and donations.
π Little Read Books has had to close their bookstore, but still continues to operate their weekly book stand every Saturday at 11 am in Denver, CO. Read their newsletter here.
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π Fridays For Future U.S. (grassroots youth-led protests for climate justice) is now hosted by OCF!
π Twisted Fields Research Collective's open-source farming robot, Acorn, was featured in Hackaday.
Twisted Fields Research Collective's open-source farming robot, Acorn,
π Stay in touch! View all of OCF's Updates here, follow us on Instagram & Twitter, and join us in the OC Discord. And if you haven't already, publish an Update so we can include it in the next post!