About Us
Ohio Valley Mutual Aid (OVMA) is building the power of our community by strengthening existing networks and doing what we can do to meet each other’s needs.
In our first year, we organized half a dozen free events and raised money/resources for our families and community members in need. We’ve helped with things like utility bills, emergency healthcare, transportation, and even warming clothing and firewood for our homeless neighbors.
With a growing infrastructure of community care, we were able to respond quickly when devastating flash floods hit our community in the summer of 2025. We deployed hundreds of volunteers to clean out affected homes and over $30,000 of no-strings-attached direct cash assistance to flood survivors in our community.
Many of our core group of 20-40 organizers are low-income, disabled, or marginalized ourselves. Mutual aid is a way we can lift each other up even though we don’t have a ton of disposable income.
Ohio Valley Mutual Aid came together because we saw injustice in the world; too many people and institutions that are supposed to help people were either not being effective or even working against us. We realize that as ordinary, isolated individuals, we don’t always have the power to make a difference. But when each of us contributes what skills and resources we can, acting thoughtfully and strategically, and with deep care for each other, we can build the power to do anything.
We accept donations via Venmo.