If you’d like to donate to help our efforts, it is greatly appreciated.
We are 100% volunteer-run.
Meaning there are no
administrative budgets,
no bloated overhead for
brick-and-mortar spaces,
no strings attached with our work,
& zero bureaucratic labyrinths
impeding the mission.
We serve Omaha for the love of our city,
and to demonstrate the effectiveness of socialist organizing.
Please earmark donations for specific funds.
Otherwise, it goes into the general fund.
The general fund covers overhead such as printing costs, website bills, etc.
Current Projects:
Mesh Networks & TRILL Fund
We’re working on bulk purchasing mesh network hardware components, soldering them ourselves to save money, hooking them up to scavenged solar panels (donations of old solar landscape lights needed), volunteers will 3d print the housing for them, and then we will install them into little free pantries/libraries, and other public spots all over Omaha!
Community Fridge/Freezer Fund
We will use these funds to further expand our community fridge network in Omaha. Business/homeowners reach out! We are seeking to install these primarily in food deserts. (Anywhere over a mile away from a grocery store.) Construction of the outdoor units are costly. However the fridge and freezer donations are coming in very easily. The brunt of the cost is running electrical conduit out to sidewalks, pouring the concrete, building the pantries around it, roofing it, etc. We seek to incorporate solar-powered mesh node repeaters in each one as well!
Fill the Fridges Fund
We have made connections for a weekly food distribution event. Every Friday, we are delivering anywhere from 10-15 thousand pounds of food to all the local community fridge/pantries, along with subsidized housing projects, dispersed through local daycares, refugee families, and most of the dry goods that are ready to eat with no cooking necessary go to homeless encampments.
We are more than happy to do it, we have hosts who allow us to store the food in walk-in coolers, refer trailers, and walk-in freezers around town. What we need to keep this sustainable is help covering the fuel costs, and disposal fees on the cleanup afterward. Our operational costs average $150/week - $600/month. We’re all volunteers, and living close to the bone as it is. Anything helps!
Free Pride Quarterly Events Fund
We had a massive success with our first free pride event. However, a lot of the volunteers spent a significant amount from their personal finances to fund it. We want to be able to start a pot to pull from for our future free pride events. We plan on hosting a quarterly queer gathering organized for y’all. Always free, no barriers to entry. We’re cooking up something spooky for this fall.
If you’d like to send donations via CashApp or Venmo: Please, please, please notate which fund you want it to go to.
You can send Venmo donations to @MutualAidOmaha
https://account.venmo.com/u/MutualAidOmaha
CashApp donations can be sent to $MutualAidOmaha
https://cash.app/$MutualAidOmaha
If you’d like to use a debit or credit card:
Select from the drop down menu which fund you want to support
How much
How often - which can be a one-time donation, or set to a weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annual recurring support.
If you want to cover the processing fees, that is an option too.
Thank you again for helping us build a better future for Omaha!
Please help Samaher get her children back to school! We owe it to all Palestinians to help them survive what our tax money has done to them. We will never be able to pay off the karmic debt of genocide, but it is our duty to help Gaza in any way that we can.
Unfortunately, the website’s platform doesn’t allow debit cards, only credit cards. If you don’t have one, Venmo a friend to send it for you - and encourage them to match your donation!!
Omaha has been helping Samaher survive the genocide for the past three years. Let us continue to show up for our sister in the struggle.
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