Faith in Action
The Solidarity Hub
The love of pizza is the love of community. Real, practical help when you need it - and real ways to give it. A faith that feeds no one is only decoration; a faith that only receives is only appetite.
🥫 Find Food
Food banks, pantries, soup kitchens and free meals.
Feeding America ↗
Find your nearest food bank by ZIP.
FoodPantries.org ↗
Directory of food pantries and soup kitchens.
USDA National Hunger Hotline ↗
Call or text to find food near you.
Dial 211 ↗
Local food, housing and help, 24/7.
💶 Money & Benefits
Income support, benefits, debt and bill help.
SNAP (Food Stamps) ↗
Apply for federal food assistance.
Benefits.gov ↗
Find every benefit you may qualify for.
211 - Bill & Rent Help ↗
Utility, rent and emergency financial assistance.
🏠 Housing & Homelessness
Shelter, eviction help and tenants’ rights.
HUD - Find Shelter ↗
Housing, shelters and support services.
Just Shelter ↗
Local eviction prevention and tenant resources.
⚕️ Health & Wellbeing
Free/low-cost healthcare and mental health.
HRSA Find a Health Center ↗
Free and low-cost clinics near you.
HealthCare.gov ↗
Health insurance coverage.
NAMI HelpLine ↗
Mental health information and support.
☎️ Crisis Lines
Someone to talk to, any time, when things are hard.
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline ↗
Call or text 988, free and 24/7.
Crisis Text Line ↗
Text HOME to 741741.
National Domestic Violence Hotline ↗
Confidential support, 24/7.
Trevor Project (LGBTQ+ youth) ↗
Crisis support for LGBTQ+ young people.
⚖️ Know Your Rights
Your rights with police, at protests, at work and with immigration.
ACLU - Know Your Rights ↗
Your rights with police, at protests and with ICE.
ILRC Red Cards ↗
Know your rights during an ICE encounter.
National Immigration Law Center ↗
Immigrant rights and legal resources.
The ICE List ↗
Independent tracking and accountability of ICE - a sister project.
✊ Solidarity & Anti-Fascism
Mutual aid, and organisations countering the far right.
Mutual Aid Hub ↗
Find or start local mutual aid near you.
Southern Poverty Law Center ↗
Tracks hate groups and extremism.
Western States Center ↗
Countering white nationalism and authoritarianism.
🧳 Refugees & Migrants
Support, legal help and welcome for refugees and migrants.
International Rescue Committee ↗
Resettlement and support for refugees and asylum seekers.
HIAS ↗
Refugee resettlement and legal protection for displaced people.
National Immigration Law Center ↗
Legal advocacy defending the rights of low-income immigrants.
United We Dream ↗
Immigrant youth-led network organizing for immigrant rights and protection.
🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ Support
Helplines, community and advocacy for LGBTQ+ people.
The Trevor Project ↗
24/7 crisis support and suicide prevention for LGBTQ+ young people.
Trans Lifeline ↗
Peer-support hotline run by and for trans people.
SAGE ↗
Services and advocacy for LGBTQ+ elders, including a national hotline.
LGBT National Help Center ↗
Free, confidential peer-support hotlines and local resources for all ages.
🛟 Domestic Abuse
Confidential help for anyone facing abuse at home.
National Domestic Violence Hotline ↗
24/7 confidential support and safety planning for domestic abuse survivors.
love is respect ↗
Support and information on dating abuse for teens and young adults.
StrongHearts Native Helpline ↗
24/7 domestic and sexual violence helpline for Native Americans and Alaska Natives.
♿ Disability
Rights, advice and community for disabled people.
The Arc ↗
Advocacy and services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
National Disability Rights Network ↗
Legally based advocacy through protection and advocacy agencies in every state.
American Association of People with Disabilities ↗
National cross-disability organization for equal opportunity and independent living.
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund ↗
Legal advocacy defending disability civil rights.
🌱 Addiction & Recovery
Non-judgemental help with drugs, alcohol and recovery.
SAMHSA National Helpline ↗
Free 24/7 referrals to local treatment for substance use and mental health.
Alcoholics Anonymous ↗
Free peer fellowship for anyone who wants to stop drinking.
Narcotics Anonymous ↗
Free peer recovery meetings for anyone who wants to stop using drugs.
SMART Recovery ↗
Science-based mutual-support groups for addiction recovery.
🔑 Prisoners & Re-entry
Support for people in prison, leaving it, and their families.
The Fortune Society ↗
Housing, employment and health services for people returning from incarceration.
National Reentry Resource Center ↗
The national clearinghouse of reentry programs, guidance and resources.
Legal Action Center ↗
Legal help and advocacy against discrimination for people with arrest or conviction records.
🫖 Elders & Loneliness
Advice lines and friendship for older people.
Eldercare Locator ↗
Government service connecting older adults and carers to local support.
Friendship Line (Institute on Aging) ↗
24/7 warmline offering conversation and emotional support for older adults.
Meals on Wheels America ↗
Home-delivered meals and friendly visits fighting senior hunger and isolation.
AARP ↗
Information, advocacy and community programs for older Americans.
Nothing matched. Try a simpler word - or call 211 / your national helpline; they know everything.
The other half of the Hub. Every organisation in the “need help” lists runs on people who showed up. Here is where to show up in United States - and remember the church’s own teaching: hope is not a feeling; it is a rota.
⏰ Give Your Time
Volunteer matching - find a shift near you.
VolunteerMatch ↗
The largest volunteer-matching network - search by cause and ZIP.
Points of Light ↗
Global volunteer network and opportunity finder.
AmeriCorps ↗
Paid and unpaid national service programmes.
🥖 Give Food & Essentials
Food banks and surplus-food rescue need hands and tins.
Feeding America - Volunteer ↗
Your local food bank always needs sorters, packers and drivers.
Meals on Wheels America ↗
Deliver meals and a knock on the door to homebound elders.
Little Free Pantry ↗
Stock a neighbourhood pantry box, or start one.
🩸 Give Blood
One hour, up to three lives. The most literal sharing there is.
American Red Cross Blood ↗
Find a blood drive near you.
🫖 Befriend & Visit
Loneliness is hunger of another kind. Visit, call, share a table.
Big Brothers Big Sisters ↗
Mentor a young person, one-to-one.
AARP Friendly Voice ↗
Volunteer to make calls to isolated older people.
🤝 Mutual Aid & Community
Neighbours organising for neighbours - join what already exists.
Mutual Aid Hub ↗
Map of mutual-aid networks and community fridges across the US.
Habitat for Humanity ↗
Build and repair homes alongside the people who will live in them.
⛪ The Church’s Own Work
Ways to help from right here, tonight, in your slippers.
Add a local spot to the board ↓
Know a soup kitchen, pantry or mutual-aid group the big directories miss? Put it on the Congregation’s Board below.
Stand against the mould →
The church’s recommendations for resisting fascism - including the ICE List, court support and know-your-rights work.
Tend the prayer wall →
Read the wall and add a slice to someone’s prayer. Small, and not nothing.
Warm the Eternal Oven →
For someone in a doorway tonight. Then, tomorrow, bring an actual slice to an actual doorway - the Rite of the Doorway shows how.
🍕 Slice Forwardsoon →
Suspend a slice at a partner pizzeria; a hungry stranger eats it later. No questions asked.
These are starting points, not an exhaustive list, and details can change - please verify locally. Crustianity is not affiliated with these organisations; we simply point the way. If you are in danger, contact emergency services.
Take it to the streets
Posters for your wall, their wall, any wall
Print them, tape them up, leave them in laundrettes and libraries. Each QR lands somewhere useful.
Need help?
Want to help?
The table has room.
✊ The Congregation’s Board
Local spots, added by us
Soup kitchens, pantries and mutual-aid the big directories miss - shared by members. Community-added and unverified: please check before relying on them.
No community spots for United States yet. Add the first.