Hyde Park Help has concluded its efforts. In roughly two years of operation it redistributed over $50,000 to cover over 600 financial requests. We greatly appreciate all of those who contributed and supported our efforts.

What is this?

This project started as a temporary mutual aid effort to support each other in the Hyde Park, Chicago Community when COVID-19 began. The need for groups like this have only become more clear in recent weeks. In Hyde Park and our surrounding neighborhoods, there are a large number of families that were living paycheck to paycheck. The current pandemic has meant that many of these individuals have not been working or making their full incomes for several months now with no end in sight. This is an effort to connect those of us that have been privileged with economic security to redistribute our funds to those that have not.

Press

• Hyde Park Mutual Aid Organizer Pledges $5,000 To Match Monthly Donations (Block Club)
• As pandemic and economic crises wear on, Hyde Park mutual aid project expands (Hyde Park Herald)

For those that need help

An few resources that continue to serve:

• Market Box is a mutual aid project that sources food from small farms and distributes it for free across the South Side of Chicago.
• The Hyde Park Kenwood Food Pantry, located at Hyde Park Union Church, provides nonperishable groceries and limited refrigerated and frozen foods to 500 to 800 people every month on Saturdays from 10am to 1pm,
• Chicago Mutual Aid Map lists additional aid resources across the city.