The Bronx Community College (BCC) Archives and Mutual Aid NYC (MANYC) collaboratively developed an Organizing Resource Library (ORL) to preserve and make openly available materials from mutual aid work in marginalized communities across NYC that were devastated during the COVID-19 crisis, and whose stories are at significant risk of being lost.

The ORL will be a free and fully accessible digital library and an archive of mutual aid organizing tools—created for, by, and in collaboration with mutual aid organizers in New York City. These tools will include toolkits, guides, templates, and a robust array of materials developed during the COVID-19 crisis that will be made available to organizers, while also preserving documentation of mutual aid work for scholars and activists.

Learn more about the project here, and listen to oral history interviews on SoundCloud.

Watch a presentation by representatives from the ORL, who share what they accomplished during the grant period, successes that were made possible through the support of the grant, and challenges the collective encountered.