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PACKMATES MUTUAL AID - FRONTEND


About Us
What is this?
So what’s mutual aid?
So how does it work?
What if you raise more/less than the goal?
Fundraiser Calendar


ABOUT US



WHAT IS THIS?


The Packmates Mutual Aid is a small-scale mutual aid organization based out of
the community on Jonathan Vair’s Discord server. Jonathan and his partner Sasha
have been giving talks about moving the direction of the furry fandom towards
mutual aid, and decided to practice what they preach, to help address needs in
the online community. Since then, it has become a community effort, with other
members stepping up in fundamental ways to help build and run the organization.


SO WHAT’S MUTUAL AID?


You’re probably familiar with what charity is, and fundraising for charity is
already pretty common in the furry fandom. However, charity is a top-down
approach, focused on addressing symptoms. Mutual aid is more of a bottom-up
approach, with people pulling together and helping one another directly.

You can find a couple of videos to further these distinctions here:

Intro to Mutual Aid

We’re All We Got, We’re All We Need: A Mutual Aid Explainer

What is Mutual Aid? (Classroom Version)

Usually mutual aids are focused locally, because people living in the same area
tend to have similar unmet needs, and it’s a lot easier to share resources and
organize in person.

Ours is obviously online, however, and is focused on addressing small-to-medium
sized financial emergencies ($100-$2000ish) that arise for the members in our
community.


SO HOW DOES IT WORK?


Members of the community submit their current unmet financial need through this
form. Organizer volunteers (people in the community who help run the mutual aid)
then look at the submitted requests. If they decide to take on a request, then
generally they’ll put together a fundraiser for it, schedule a streaming event,
etc. Various members of the community will volunteer to stream, take
commissions, etc to raise money to meet the need. Donations are sent to the
Packmates Mutual Aid’s page on GiveButter.

In a way, the mutual aid almost acts as a sort of catch-all insurance for our
community. If you know you can come here to ask for help in a pinch, then maybe
your life will have a little more of a sense of security and less scarcity
anxiety!


WHAT IF YOU RAISE MORE/LESS THAN THE GOAL?


We hope to always meet the goal, but if we fall short, then sometimes community
members will cover the remaining gap themselves. Regardless, we will send as
close to the requested amount as we can manage.

If funds are raised beyond the requested goal, then the extra funds will sit in
the mutual aid’s pool, to give us a buffer for future requests. Ideally, we’ll
eventually have a few hundred extra on hand between events, so that we could
even fulfill smaller requests on shorter notice, when we don’t have time to
organize a whole fundraising event around it!



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