TABLE 2.

Overview of the generated themes.

Name	Description
Theme 1: Meeting community needs over time with localized action and resources	The first generated theme focuses on the localized dimension of practical and human resources that were mobilized by mutual aid and community support groups. It includes details on how groups organized locally around community needs and how the mobilization of local resources was a key aspect for sustaining the group.
Theme 2: Building trust and community-based alliances	This theme includes references relating to the strategic alliances between groups, institutions and charities. Participants’ views on the need and importance of building trust and alliances within the local community are represented in this theme.
Theme 3: Employing group processes strategies	The focus in this theme is on the intentional and conscious things done by organizers to sustain the groups. These strategies involve invoking identification, group care, facilitating communication, an informal but organized leadership structure, and group’s meetings and events.
Theme 4: Experiencing enjoyment and efficacy in collective coping	This theme addresses the positive experiences and benefits for those who were involved in organized community solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Theme 5: Increasing sense of local community belonging and cohesion	The focus in this theme is on the impact of COVID-19 community solidarity for dimensions related with the community, namely sense of belonging and cohesion. These dimensions appear related to ideas of group continuity beyond the pandemic.