Ward 2 Mutual Aid
Neighbors supporting neighbors in Washington, DC, though community-led mutual aid
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WHO WE ARE
Ward 2 Mutual Aid (W2MA) is a grassroots, community-led initiative dedicated to ensuring all neighbors, particularly those who are low-income, immigrant, or unhoused, have consistent access to essential resources. Our mission is grounded in the long-standing mutual aid principle of “cooperation for the sake of the common good.” We work to meet immediate needs while building long-term community resilience through solidarity, shared responsibility, and direct support.
WHAT WE DO
Since 2020, we have been distributing monthly groceries and supplies to more than 150 low-income immigrant households and providing weekly survival supplies to over 80 unhoused neighbors across Ward 2. In 2025, we also started a collective grocery buying club, the Greens & Beans Co-op, to provide lower-cost, sustainable, and local groceries for the community. This work affords community members greater access to nutritious food and essential supplies, strengthens neighbor-to-neighbor support systems, and reduces barriers that prevent families and individuals from meeting their basic needs.
OUR GOALS
In 2026, Ward 2 Mutual Aid is responding to community needs by continuing our vital direct resource redistributions through our monthly food distro and weekly encampment outreach projects. We anticipate that food distro will increase from 150 to 200 households per month, and encampment outreach will increase from 80 to 100 individuals per week.
We are growing the Greens & Beans Co-op to double membership by the end of the year in order to provide affordable access to sustainably-sourced groceries for even more people.
We are also building out a new Emergency Preparedness Hub with resources, supplies, and regular skill-share workshops. This project will build community members’ skills in areas like emergency communications, first aid, and disaster preparedness, with the goal of creating solutions together, protecting vulnerable neighbors, educating the public, and advocating for our rights.
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Fundraisers
Official fundraiser
Help 200 DC Families In Need
With all that is happening in our city and country -- ICE and law enforcement harassing our unhoused and immigrant neighbors, mass layoffs and weeks-long furloughs, ongoing threats to government services -- we've seen an increase in requests for the supports we offer, and heard from community partners that their needs have grown as well. We're calling on anybody in the community who has resources to donate and help us raise $20,000 for 200 households. This support will double the number households we're able to serve with our monthly grocery distributions from 100 to 200 , while being able to still sustain our other support projects as well and assist other local groups tackling this crisis. Protecting our community takes all of us, we keep us fed and we keep us safe.
- Raised
- $15,744
- Goal
- $20,000
295 supporters
DonateFundraiser by GW PCS Advocacy Director
GW PCS Advocacy Committee Supporting those who are houseless
Due to the recent sweeps of people who are currently lacking in housing, The Philippine Cultural Society at the George Washington University wants provide support via our bake sale fundraiser. We will be selling Filipino style peanuts and ube flavored: cupcakes, mini cheesecakes, and cookies. This fundraiser will be held from 11-3pm on March 21st on both Kogan Plaza and USC 1st floor!
1 supporter
DonateDonors
Larry Bostian 1Please acknowledge this as a gift from
Thomas Ratliff Amazing local organizing in DC!
Rehana Mohammed 2Ward 2 Mutual Aid is so important to our community! Much love to all the organizers!
Qaadir El-Amin 1I support
Lauren Hoffman To the fundraiser: Help 200 DC Families In Need
