For six years, entirely through volunteer labor and community contributions, Mutual Aid Monday (MAM) has shown up every single Monday, without interruption, regardless of weather, holidays, political climate, or public attention. Through our reliability and consistency, MAM has built a rare and meaningful space of community connection, mutual care, civic participation, and solidarity. People from all walks of life gather each week not only to receive support but also to contribute to one another’s humanity and dignity. MAM provides home-cooked meals, clothing, seasonal survival gear, hygiene supplies, harm-reduction resources, and other direct support to Denver residents experiencing extreme hardship and homelessness. More recently, volunteer medical professionals have joined forces to operate an on-site street medicine clinic that provides first aid, wound care, and basic medical support.
MAM is entirely volunteer-run, with no paid staff and minimal overhead (no office rent), such that every dollar contributed goes directly to sustaining our operations and meeting street survival needs. We receive no government funding and are entirely community supported.
Outside of Mondays, much work goes into prepping for our weekly gathering, collecting in-kind donations from across the Denver metro area, sorting, restocking, prepping and transporting essential weekly supplies, gathering food from our pantry partners and businesses to power our amazing team of cooks as well as direct distro food items. We additionally engage in advocacy efforts with allied organizations, conduct street outreach to check on vulnerable neighbors especially during severe weather events.
Mutual Aid Monday is a protest and a grassroot community in Denver. Every week, we show up alongside our unhoused neighbors providing direct support and creating a space rooted in dignity, solidarity, and care. We believe showing up for one another is both an act of community and an act of resistance.
Mutual Aid Monday was born in November 2020, during a time of extraordinary uncertainty, when a group of Denver neighbors came together with a simple belief: We take care of us.
What began as a grassroots effort to provide food, clothing, and basic necessities to our unhoused neighbors has grown into a powerful community of solidarity, compassion, resistance, and radical love.
For six years, we have shown up every single Monday at 14th and Bannock in downtown Denver. We have never missed a Monday. Not through snowstorms, freezing temperatures, scorching summer heat, holidays, or the many challenges we've faced along the way.
Today, Mutual Aid Monday brings together hundreds of community members, volunteers, and partner organizations who believe that everyone deserves dignity, safety, belonging, and access to the resources they need to survive and thrive.
Every Monday, our community shares hot meals, clothing, hygiene products, survival gear, harm reduction supplies, pet food, and other essential resources. Our volunteer teams and community partners provide street medicine, basic medical care, bicycle repairs, children's activities, and other services that meet people where they are.
But Mutual Aid Monday has never been just about distributing supplies.
We believe mutual aid is about building relationships, sharing resources, and recognizing our shared humanity. We reject the idea that some people are more deserving of dignity and care than others. We believe our unhoused neighbors are not problems to be solved, but people to be valued, listened to, and included in decisions that affect their lives.
Our work extends beyond Monday evenings. We stand alongside our unhoused neighbors in advocating for housing justice, challenging the criminalization of poverty, resisting harmful policies, and demanding systemic change. We believe that meeting immediate needs and fighting the systems that create those needs must go hand in hand.
Over the past six years, strangers have become friends, friends have become family, and a weekly gathering has become a community rooted in trust, love
Organization name
Mutual Aid Monday
2020
Tax id (EIN)
88-1565941
Category
Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy, Public & Societal Benefit, Food, Agriculture & Nutrition, Community Improvement & Capacity Building, Human Services
Organization Size
Small Organization
Address
300 E 17TH AVE APT 1118Denver, CO, US