Austin Mutual Aid

This summer, Austin Mutual Aid is responding to extreme heat and increased displacement by providing cooling kits, hydration supplies, outreach, and community support for our unhoused neighbors. We’re looking for volunteer members, partners, and supporters to help us distribute 625+ cooling kits and thousands of hydration supplies across Austin. Join our planning meetings, host a community day, support with funds & supplies. Housing saves lives. But community helps keep people alive.

🚨 JUNE 4 IS FULL!!!!!🚨

*** NEXT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY: June 20th***

Austin Mutual Aid is gearing up for summer outreach and needs volunteers to help unload and organize heat relief supplies for our unhoused neighbors.

💧 Thanks to the 512°F Moore Family Charitable Foundation, we've received:
• 2 pallets of water
• Propel & electrolyte drinks
• Cooling and survival kits

📅 June 4, 2026
⏰ Around 3:00–3:30 PM

We need:
✅ Helping hands to unload and organize supplies
✅ Volunteers to move items into storage
✅ Someone with a truck or trailer for overflow transport

Even an hour of your time helps get life-saving supplies to people facing extreme heat.

❤️ Special thanks to the 512°F Moore Family Charitable Foundation for making this possible.

Contact to volunteer:
📧 [email protected]

Extreme heat kills. Community saves lives.

Saturday, May 23rd, Austin Mutual Aid and the North Austin Foundation held a watercolor class focused on healing, creativity, coping skills, and hope. 💛

The class discussion centered on mistakes, perspective, and learning to “paint a different picture” when life feels stuck.

Participants were reminded that even when life feels messy or unfinished, there is still room to create something meaningful.

This class was the first in our new series of community educational classes, skillshares, and workshops.

If you know unhoused neighbors, or are part of a program serving unhoused individuals, and would like this class brought free of charge to your community, please contact us!

Special thanks to Austin Creative Reuse for donated supplies that helped make this possible.

Almost everyone currently living in the United States is connected to immigration in some way — through family, ancestry, displacement, survival, or the search for safety and opportunity.

Immigration is a human right!

While Congress considers billions more for detention, deportation, and family separation, immigrant families in Austin are struggling to stay housed, keep food on the table, and survive growing fear and instability.

That’s why Austin Mutual Aid created the Immigrant Support Fund (ISF) — a rapid-response community fund supporting immigrant and mixed-status families with rent, utilities, groceries, transportation, and emergency support through trusted relationships and direct community care.

Together, our community has already redistributed nearly $60,000 directly to families in crisis.

We need investment in people — not more raids, cages, and criminalization.

❌ No blank check for ICE
❌ No expansion of detention centers
❌ No more family separation

Support immigrant families.Take action.Link in bio.

Everyone prepare for a line of storms coming in from the NW tonight. Rough arrival time expected as early as 6pm and very likely by 8-9pm. Highest risks are straight line winds, some hail, and heavy lightning activity, with NWS warning of possible power outages due to damaged transmission lines. Not ruling out heavy rainfall with isolated pockets up to 2-4in possible. Should be out of the area by 2am Monday, seasonably warm and dry weather to follow.

Many thanks to our community member for this heads up! ⚡️ ⛈️

Trans Day of Visibility can look a lot of ways.

Today, it can be soft.
It can be rest.
It can be a snack, a small moment, a little ease.

If you’re trans—drop your handles if you want to receive a little love today.

If you’re cis—this is a simple way to show up.
Find someone. Say “I got you.” Send a few dollars. No conditions, no questions.

This is what community care looks like.
Small, direct, human.

Deep appreciation to the original creators for this—shared here with permission. Please go support and follow them as well.

Tag folks. Share widely. Let’s make sure people feel it today.

You showed up. That matters.

But showing up is not the work—it’s the beginning of it.

What we do after matters more:
who we follow
who we support
how we stay consistent

If you’re not directly impacted, your role isn’t to lead.
It’s to listen, support, and take direction.

Movements don’t grow from moments.
They grow from people who stay.

Tag orgs & organizers already doing the work below so folx can find them and step in immediately.

We keep us safe.

Fun events the next few days:

Tomorrow we gather to remember Jessica Nairns. If you knew Jess, worked alongside her, or were impacted by her work, we invite you to come share space with us. Or maybe you just know someone like her.

The words in these slides are Jessica’s own words—written from her lived experience and her advocacy for our unhoused neighbors. Jess believed deeply in speaking truth about what people on the margins face and what real solutions look like.

Jess was also one of the original voices behind our Creative Housing Initiative in 2021. Last week, one of the final OG participants from that program was finally housed after seven years of homelessness. Jess believed change happens when community shows up—and we’re still seeing that ripple.

Homelessness is a community issue first and a barrier issue second.

So we’re asking our community: how are you showing up right now?

If you can, come through tomorrow to remember Jess and hold space together. 💐