When major disruptions happen in communities, often the first people to respond are the residents themselves and their neighbors. When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down daily life or after a disaster ...

Since the outbreak of the coronavirus crisis, everyday people have sprung into action to help each other out. Organizers and volunteers are working to get food to those in need, and to support food ...

The day after Hurricane Ida struck Louisiana, Delaney Nolan spent hours biking around New Orleans, handing out money to people who needed to pay for supplies or for the hotel rooms where they'd taken ...

Things change. A while ago we told the story of neighbors looking out for one another on Dummerston Hill. Agnes Chamberlin wrote about how, in the late 1800s, her father used to visit a neighbor’s ...

MONROE COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — The woman lay at the bottom of Conasauga Falls Saturday afternoon, her leg broken and her ankle ...

In the husk of an old grocery store, on an unassuming corner in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans, sits the Common Ground Health Clinic, a front-line fighter of COVID-19 that emerged from the ...

“Solidarity, not charity.” At its most basic level, that’s how proponents describe mutual aid. Though historically associated with leftist causes, mutual aid is, at its core, about people helping one ...

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