Nbhd Mutual Aid

This app aims to enable you and your fellows to transparently manage your community — without getting in the way of forming personal relationships face to face. First, let's be clear: this is not a social media app. It's about giving a community guidance, guardrails, accountability, and the benefits of technology, without trying to replace human interaction with a screen. You can't just 'write a post,' there are no likes on the pictures you can't upload, and there are no comment sections to argue in. I made this app because it feels like things are coming a part, and 10 people working together are stronger than one person going it alone. Communities need to be able to make decisions for themselves, without devolving into an HOA on steroids or a toxic Facebook group. This app distributes power among people in a community, and let's you choose how decisions are made (eg, consent, consensus, ranked-choice, and so on). The exercise of power is visible in the ledger, and revocable by the community. Mutual Aid Yes, this app has the elements you need for doing mutual aid in your community: skill shares, lending library, and (private when desired) requests for assistance. It integrate best practices learned from the pandemic to get out of the way when people need to ask for help, but also make it easy for organizers to route requests to the right people. No company server to go down Your community's records live on members' phones and sync directly between them over Wi-Fi or a Reticulum mesh network. There's no company server holding your data that can fail during an outage. For neighbors without a phone, print a noticeboard of current needs and decisions with short reference codes anyone can look up for them. Deciding together Anyone can make a proposal. Choose how it's decided: consent, majority, supermajority, consensus or ranked choice. 'Circles' take charge of one area, such as the tool library, the water point or the phone tree, so decisions are made by the people doing the work. No hidden boss Every decision, delegate seat and admin action is signed by the person who made it and kept in a community record every member can read. Delegates serve fixed terms and can be recalled. If there's a conflict between neighbors, Nbhd helps set up a restorative process: the people involved choose a facilitator and meet in person. Beyond your block A call for people to show up, like a cleanup or a move, can travel to nearby communities from one neighbor to another. Neighborhoods can send delegates to a council, and councils can join larger councils. A council's resolution applies only to the neighborhoods that agree to it. This app is built for the long haul: everyday mutual aid when things are calm, and the tools for a neighborhood to run itself when they aren't.