KSEC & STAY Project Youth Mutual Aid Fund
Requests for funding are open!
If you have the means, please donate or share. Love and solidarity.
If you have the means, please donate or share. Love and solidarity.
The state of Kentucky and central/southern Appalachian in purple behind the words "Youth Mutual Aid Fund" in green. The KSEC and STAY Project logos are present.
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The Stay Together Appalachian Youth Network and the Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition are fundraising support young people in our networks and communities impacted by COVID-19.
Across the United States COVID-19 is exposing our horrifying lack of a social safety net, and the history of divestment from the South and Appalachia are setting our region up to be hit even harder. We are already being contacted by young people in our networks asking for support around housing and transportation. In the coming weeks we expect young people will need support paying bills, childcare, hot-spots for internet access, etc.. We only have each other. The STAY Project and KSEC are committed to practicing our values in this time of crisis, having a mutual aid fund to ease the suffering of young people in our communities is just one way we are working together to get through to do that. We may be quarantined but we ain’t gonna let this isolate us. |
What is Mutual Aid? - mutual aid is a voluntary reciprocal exchange of resources and services for mutual benefit. Basically, when we practice mutual aid we are acknowledging that nobody in our community is expendable and it benefits the whole community when everyone has their needs met.
In the coming weeks we expect young people will need support paying bills, medical care, childcare, hot-spots for internet access, etc… The STAY Project and the Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition are working on getting a mutual aid fund for young people in our networks who are being displaced and put out of work by COVID-19. This fund will prioritize Black, Indigenous, PoC. LGBTQIA, disabled, chronically-ill, and immunocompromised youth.
For the time being we will be able provide up to $200 in aid to young people under the age of 30 in the network of the STAY Project and KSEC.
You don't have to be a member to apply, but you do have to live in their service areas. For KSEC, that is the entire state of Kentucky. For STAY, that is the Appalachian counties of Kentucky, Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Once you have submitted your form, you will receive an email requesting a W-9 and your payment information. We will also provide instructions on how to fill out the W-9.
Please contact Caci Gibson at cacigibson94@gmail.com if you have any questions.
In the coming weeks we expect young people will need support paying bills, medical care, childcare, hot-spots for internet access, etc… The STAY Project and the Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition are working on getting a mutual aid fund for young people in our networks who are being displaced and put out of work by COVID-19. This fund will prioritize Black, Indigenous, PoC. LGBTQIA, disabled, chronically-ill, and immunocompromised youth.
For the time being we will be able provide up to $200 in aid to young people under the age of 30 in the network of the STAY Project and KSEC.
You don't have to be a member to apply, but you do have to live in their service areas. For KSEC, that is the entire state of Kentucky. For STAY, that is the Appalachian counties of Kentucky, Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Once you have submitted your form, you will receive an email requesting a W-9 and your payment information. We will also provide instructions on how to fill out the W-9.
Please contact Caci Gibson at cacigibson94@gmail.com if you have any questions.
Mutual Aid Resources
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Mutual Aid Projects & Resources
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5 Demands for Emergency COVID-19 Survival
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Education, Toolkits, & Guides
- When Every Community is Ground Zero: Pulling Each Other Through a Pandemic from Mutual Aid Disaster Relief
- Webinars for preparing worker cooperatives and small businesses
- How canceled events and self-quarantines save lives by Vox
- An Anarchist's Guide to Surviving Coronavirus
- Sanitation Guide for Knoxville COVID-19 Response
- Resources for Kentucky's Small Businesses
- Mutual Aid 101 Toolkit from AOC and Mariama Kaba
- Medical Student COVID-19 Curriculum
- Coronavirus Resources Kit includes distance learning, messaging, grants, other resources
- COVID-19 Fact Sheets for Tribes and Urban Indian Communities has great public health information
- Ten free ebooks from Haymarket Books
- MADR resources on Navigating Trauma
- Safety Practices for Mutual Aid Food & Supply Distribution
- Tech Handbook for Fighting Misinformation
- Coronavirus General Resources Planning with information about groceries, visitors, mental health, and resilience
- Tips on Hosting Virtual Meetings
Phone Zaps
A phone zap is a coordinated call-in campaign to put pressure on an organization. Those listed here will help incarcerated people and migrants held in detention by ICE.
A phone zap is a coordinated call-in campaign to put pressure on an organization. Those listed here will help incarcerated people and migrants held in detention by ICE.
Petitions & Statements
- Demands from Grassroots Organizers Concerning COVID-19
- Climate Justice Alliance Demands An Immediate End To Trump's Xenophobia and Negligence: Call for a Just Recovery Response to COVID-19 that Centers the Most Vulnerable
- Petition to Governor Beshear to Protect Kentuckians facing income loss due to COVID-19
- Petition to Jeff Bezos to close Amazon factories and pay workers
