Mutual Aid 101 Toolkit (Shareable)
Summary
A fillable, step-by-step toolkit for launching a neighborhood mutual-aid network — outreach scripts, needs assessments, meeting agendas, governance templates, and conflict-resolution protocols. The most-used practitioner manual in the 2020s mutual-aid wave.
Body
The Shareable Mutual Aid 101 Toolkit is the practitioner toolkit for community-led mutual-aid response, published by Shareable as part of its Sharing Cities programme and downloadable as a free PDF from shareable.net [source: shareable-mutual-aid-101]. Shareable is a US nonprofit media outlet that publishes on the sharing economy, commoning, and community-led responses to social problems; its toolkit sits within a broader mutual-aid publication landscape that includes the Mutual Aid 101 toolkit (see mutual-aid-101-toolkit) and other peer resources [source: shareable-mutual-aid-101]. The toolkit is the working reference for groups new to mutual aid who need a tested practice guide [source: shareable-mutual-aid-101].
Coverage: the toolkit covers the practical questions a new mutual-aid group is likely to face - how to find members, how to keep members safe, how to make decisions, how to deliver services, how to grow sustainably, how to de-brief, how to wind down - with worked examples drawn from US mutual-aid groups that formed during the COVID-19 pandemic [source: shareable-mutual-aid-101]. The toolkit’s frame is that mutual aid is solidarity not charity, and is intended to be readable in one sitting and reusable by group facilitators [source: shareable-mutual-aid-101]. It pairs with related Shareable publications on community-ownership models, co-ops, and the Sharing Cities network [source: shareable-mutual-aid-101].
A campaigner reaches for it when designing a mutual-aid group formation curriculum, when training new facilitators in the mutual-aid approach, or when sourcing a tested short guide rather than a long handbook [source: shareable-mutual-aid-101]. Treat as link-only. [source: shareable-mutual-aid-101]
Use it for
Launching a neighborhood mutual-aid network; training new mutual-aid coordinators; building a request-intake and dispatch workflow.
Related
- affinity-groups
- coalition-building
- constructive-programme
- distributed-organizing
- leadership-development
- one-to-ones
- public-narrative
Sources & verification
- sources/shareable-mutual-aid-101 — grounding: secondary — RAW (license CC-BY-SA verified)