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project leader
Tobias C
location
Vanderbilt Avenue
(Prospect Heights and surrounding areas)
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the project

Greater Prospect Heights Mutual Aid (GPHMA) is a neighborhood network that provides material, emotional and informational support to residents of Prospect Heights and other nearby neighborhoods. Formed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are working to build up an organization that can endure beyond the current crisis.

In the past few months, we have been helping neighbors maintain communication through platforms like Whatsapp and Slack. Through our regular community calls, we’ve also been providing opportunities for neighbors to engage in meaningful discussion on issues such as police violence, housing justice and mental health.

Since April, the mainstay of our efforts to provide direct aid to neighbors has been our grocery support program, which helps financially constrained neighbors acquire food and other basic household items on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. Beyond helping neighbors get food, GPHMA’s grocery  program aims to build enduring relationships between volunteer shoppers and grocery recipients.

At the same time, we have been funneling volunteers towards a number of critical initiatives (from food distribution to voter registration to supplies drives) led by groups outside GPHMA.

You can learn more about GPHMA by visiting our website
To plug into our efforts you can fill out our intake form and join our slack!

the steps

By donating to this community fund, you'll be helping us to sustain and expand our grocery support program and to extend new crucial lines of support to neighbors in need.

Currently, GPHMA's grocery support program spends up to about $1,000 every week. This fundraiser will enable us to collect and disperse more money to more volunteer shoppers who purchase and deliver food and other essential goods to neighbors in need

Up till now, GPHMA's grocery support program has operated on the basis of a decentralized funding mechanism, whereby donors give directly to shoppers. While we do not plan on retiring this mechanism and the accounting system that supports it, establishing this community fund will enable GPHMA to centralize the collection and distribution of some of the money that goes towards the grocery program.

The money raised here will also help us grow our efforts to provide prepared meals and other basic materials such as PPE to people living and working in and around Prospect Heights. 

Crucially, having access to this fund will enable the mutual aid group to meet the basic costs associated with maintaining our network (from paying for the website and slack to printing flyers and purchasing the materials we'll need to mount small events that can in turn help to fuel this fundraiser).

You can track where and how we are spending our money here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1h0ivwFj9UP48g0PaQHZVXIYAy0OtStkO...

 

why we're doing it

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed many of the links that bind us to one another. While we cannot escape our interdependence we can shape its governing terms. During a crisis, we can retreat into isolation, or we can fight for a society founded on cooperation and mutual aid rather than callousness. 

The inequalities that police access to food, housing, health care, safety and other basic necessities operate at national and global scales. However, these inequalities manifest locally, even within our small slice of Brooklyn. It is our belief that any effective response to these problems must engage and empower local communities. If we are going to effectively confront our uncertain future and the enduring, structural problems that plague New York (one of the world's richest but most unequal cities) we have to build solidarity with the people who reside and labor in our neighborhoods. 

budget

DISBURSED BUDGET 3.2.21

The $13,376.30 from the IOBY fundraiser along with GPHMA's other funds will be enough to cover the group's grocery program at it's current size and allow for a small amount of growth in the number of households we serve.

$50-$80 is the average cost of buying one week's worth of groceries for one person

$200 feeds a family of four for one week

$300 is enough money for us to prepare and distribute 150 meals, which we are aiming to do twice a month.

$1,000 is about how much the grocery program spends in a week at its current size

 




  Normal Fees Waived Fees
TOTAL RAISED = $13,790.00 $13,790.00
ioby Platform Fee $35.00 waived
ioby Fiscal Sponsorship Fee (5%) $687.75 waived
ioby Donation Processing Fee (3%) $412.65 $413.70
TOTAL TO DISBURSE= $12,654.60 $13,376.30

 

REVISED BUDGET 2.22. 21

$50-$80 is the average cost of buying one week's worth of groceries for one person

$200 feeds a family of four for one week

$300 is enough money for us to prepare and distribute 150 meals, which we are aiming to do twice a month.

$1,000 is about how much the grocery program spends in a week at its current size

 



PROJECT FUNDING NEEDED = $15,000
ioby Platform Fee waived
ioby Fiscal Sponsorship Fee (5%) waived
ioby Donation Processing Fee (3%) $464
TOTAL TO RAISE = $15,463.92

 

 

ORIGINAL BUDGET

$50-$80 is the average cost of buying one week's worth of groceries for one person

$200 feeds a family of four for one week

$300 is enough money for us to prepare and distribute 150 meals, which we are aiming to do twice a month.

$1,000 is about how much the grocery program spends in a week at its current size



PROJECT FUNDING NEEDED = $10,000
ioby Platform Fee waived
ioby Fiscal Sponsorship Fee (5%) waived
ioby Donation Processing Fee (3%)
(Donation processing fee does not apply to match funding.)		 $309
TOTAL TO RAISE = $10,309
Please note: ioby fees are estimated and will be calculated based on totals at the end of the campaign.  

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donors

  • Logan and Lisa R.
  • DJH
  • Anonymous
  • Michelle M.
  • Crystal H.
  • J Kaufman
  • Gael B.
  • Greg Nofi
  • Sylvia N.
  • Anonymous
  • Maria S.
  • Margot B.
  • Susan M.
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  • Anuar Juraidini
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  • Amy T.
  • Jennie E.
  • Bonnie W.
  • Anonymous
  • Charlie
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  • Camille B.
  • Madeleine B.
  • Penny Jean Zahurones
  • Margaret Wardrop
  • Anonymous
  • your neighbors
  • Alexandra M.
  • Anonymous
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  • Jenny Douglas
  • Kristen L
  • Daniel O.
  • Tea Ho
  • Jane S.
  • Hannah L Johnson-Walsh
  • Garrett W.
  • Anjali
  • Andrea R.
  • Daniel G.
  • Sarah M.
  • Lindsay A.
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  • Garrick & Leslie
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  • on behalf of Frederica J.
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  • Meredith M
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  • Rachel Bonsignore
  • Laurie Turnof
  • Michael S.
  • Melanie J.
  • Anonymous
  • Tanya M.
  • Tobias
  • Gari W.
  • In honor of Molly and Yoni
  • Elizabeth S.
  • Rebecca S.
  • William L.
  • Judith H.
  • Molly W.
  • Anonymous
  • Marisa H.
  • Dan Walker
  • Alexandra S.
  • Chloe L.
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  • Angela O.
  • Jason S.
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