
AURA ENGINE
AURA ENGINE is an experimental automated "kindness engine" for New York City that carries out small online good deeds, each logged with a receipt, and maps the mood of each borough.
Our community-sourced, volunteer-curated library is a growing collection of the many resources available to New Yorkers. Mutual Aid NYC is committed to building a comprehensive list of high-quality resources.
It started alongside the broader Mutual Aid NYC project in response to the COVID-19 pandemic as a directory of social services useful to local mutual aid groups. It is build following the Open Referral Human Services Data Standard (HSDS) and uses the ORServices open source resource directory software as a front-end and Airtable as a backend.


AURA ENGINE is an experimental automated "kindness engine" for New York City that carries out small online good deeds, each logged with a receipt, and maps the mood of each borough.

An organization focused on child support in Japan, tackling social challenges surrounding children with child poverty as the primary focus.

An organization providing pro bono services to NPOs to support social problem-solving, including activities to eliminate poverty.

Supporting youth in financial hardship through LINE consultations and food assistance, including food and cash distributions via LINE

Noto Not Alone (のとノットアローン) is an open-source parenting-support web app for the remote Okunoto region of Ishikawa, Japan, built by local mothers with volunteer engineers, giving isolated new parents a calendar of kid-friendly events, a map of local resources, and a channel to find help.