ETR Mutual Aid

ETR Mutual Aid is a wealth redistribution project rooted in the values of community care and mutual aid that was initiated by Sass Borodkin and Sett Vincent in the summer of 2023. We move money to resource-deprived people in ways that promote dignity and remove barriers through direct cash transfers for basic survival needs like housing, food, medicine, utilities, transportation needs, and more. W

e also connect people with other resources and support outside of the scope of what we can offer. The money we move is gifted to us from people who hold a disproportionate amount of wealth who have decided to redistribute their resources rather than hoard them.
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​We are not a 501(c)(3) charity; we are just individuals with extensive lived experiences of poverty who are moving money in a trust-based way to people who are struggling to survive under end-stage capitalism. No person sharing their resources with this project gets any kind of tax benefit for doing so - they are doing so because wealth hoarding is wrong, and it's killing people. We consider what we do an act of mutual aid because it's built on trust, relationship-building, and mutual education between the people giving and the people receiving. ETR Mutual Aid is primarily financially sponsored by the ME Chapter of Resource Generation.