Teach In: Handling Money for Mutual Aid Groups

Image of grocery bags, a 2020 tax form, and a handmade cardboard sign tell people how to donate to a food project via Venmo.

On February 9, the Barnard Center for Research on Women is hosting a teach-in where Mike Haber, author of this useful guide for mutual aid groups about legal issues, will be sharing info about dealing with money and taxes for mutual aid groups. Many groups collected a lot of money last year and distributed it or bought supplied, food, tents and other survival items and distributed those. Now, some of those groups will be facing the problem of a tax bill for a member who used their Venmo or Paypal account to receive the money. Mike will be talking about these issues and more. We also made a handout for the event that might be useful, about how mutual aid groups can handle money. It looks at pros and cons of various approaches.