Taking Home Salvation Army Xmas Dinner, New York, 1908. George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
Sovereign technology for communities that organize mutual aid. Built to last.
Silver is shared infrastructure for mutual aid communities. A map of every resource in your neighborhood, a forum for local conversation, a calendar of community events, and a helpline that answers when you call. Federated across cities. Owned by the people who use it.
Taking Home Salvation Army Xmas Dinner, New York, 1908. George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
What Silver provides
Every mutual aid resource in your community, verified by neighbors. Food pantries, legal aid, shelters, health clinics, warming centers. Searchable. Always current.
Community events organized by week and neighborhood. Mutual aid distributions, town halls, volunteer shifts, cultural gatherings. Zone filtering shows what's happening near you.
See this week's events →
A community board for sharing. Furniture, clothes, food, skills. Silver handles the matching — coordination happens between neighbors. No money changes hands.
Browse the exchange →
One number. A human voice answers with the right resource for your neighborhood. No hold music. No transfers. No eligibility questions. Real conversation from the Silver helpline:
A local space for conversation and coordination. Signal detection surfaces urgent community needs from social media in real time.
Each city runs its own node with its own data. Nodes connect to share resources and knowledge across the network. No central authority.
Built for
Rapid response
During the January 2026 cold snap, New York City activated Enhanced Code Blue as temperatures dropped below freezing for ten consecutive days. Silver's cold resources page went live automatically — mapping every warming center, shelter, and outreach team in the city. Real-time weather monitoring. Two buttons: I need help and I'm helping someone.
This wasn't the first time. Silver was born during the January 2025 LA wildfires, when a spreadsheet became an interactive map that 280,000 people used to find shelter, food, and clothing in 72 hours.
We consult with agencies and organizations on rapid deployment of community infrastructure for disaster response.
Rapid response
During the March 2026 Kona Low, catastrophic flooding hit Oahu's North Shore. Wahiawa Dam rose past its spillway, triggering evacuation orders for 5,500 people. Silver's founder deployed the Oahu node from inside the disaster zone — running on Tesla solar and Starlink after 24 hours without power.
Real-time dam level from USGS. Official DEM alerts streamed from Nixle. Boil water notices from the Board of Water Supply. 170 vetted community resources. Emergency shelter tracking. FEMA flood zones and HDOT road closures on the map. A voice helpline. Multilingual crisis guidance in 10 languages including Hawaiian, Tagalog, and Samoan. Know Your Rights with Hawaii statute citations.
Built in hours. Operated from the field. Shared with the Honolulu Department of Emergency Management and North Shore community groups.
The network
Silver is a federation. Each community runs its own node — its own map, forum, and data. Nodes connect to share resources across cities without surrendering sovereignty. The network grows without centralizing.
Carl Trønders. Unsplash.
Press
Silver scales with your community. If you're organizing mutual aid, running a nonprofit, or building public infrastructure — we'd like to hear from you.
johan@silver.is