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A distillery makes hand sanitizer, a restaurant sells toilet paper: How food businesses are doing COVID-19 pivots

Alix Wall

March 20, 2020 |

Berkeleyside |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Berkeley, California

When the Bay Area issued a shelter-in-place order as a response to containing the spread of COVID-19, businesses had to adapt. From a local distillery creating hand sanitizer at cost, to a restaurant offering groceries, to a catering business selling drive-through meals, local businesses have gotten creative to maintain revenue and pay employees.

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Communities Mobilize to Help Elderly Weather Coronavirus Crisis

Ruth Bender

March 20, 2020 |

Wall Street Journal |

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Response Location: Belgium

Across the world, many senior citizens have been cut off from access to normal routines and ways of community due to the coronavirus pandemic, but communities and organizations are working to fill the void. In Belgium, robots are being used in retirement homes to combat isolation, while in Germany, employees of a soccer club are shopping for the elderly.

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Distilleries Turning Raw Ingredients Into the Most Needed Supplies

Clark Fouraker

March 20, 2020 |

NBCLX |

Broadcast TV News |

Under 3 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

Because they have the appropriate ingredients and facilities, Deep Ellum Distillery is making hand santizer and offering it for free to anyone who needs it. They are also endorsing people to order food to-go in order to support other local restaurants during the pandemic. Distilleries across the country are doing the same thing to help out their neighbors.

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Nextdoor adds Help Maps and Groups to connect neighbors during the coronavirus outbreak

Sarah Perez

March 19, 2020 |

TechCrunch |

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Response Location: United States

Nextdoor, an app that connects neighbors, is helping to coordinate local responses to the coronavirus pandemic. Using newly designed features, users can offer and request help based on location and share information about topics of interest such as child care.

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‘More high-tech than high touch': Youth-serving organizations are getting creative amid pandemic

Allison Dikanovic

March 19, 2020 |

Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service |

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Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Milwaukee's nonprofits serving youth are finding new ways to check in and connect with their students as the coronavirus rules out the possibility for in-person afterschool programming. “Social distancing doesn’t mean social disconnection," the director of a community organization said. "We want to encourage youth to stay in touch with each other and with trusted adults."

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This virtual tip jar helps Philly out-of-work food industry employees during the coronavirus

Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

March 19, 2020 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

As restaurants across the nation have been forced to close their doors during the coronavirus pandemic, some are turning to creative means to help account for the loss of revenue. In Philadelphia, restaurants have created a virtual tip jar to encourage patrons to "donate a tip" to a person or business while in San Francisco a restaurant owner has created a Facebook group that helps connect out of work servers with childcare jobs.

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For the rural elderly, it can take a village

Keith Hammonds Myers Reece

March 19, 2020 |

The Boulder Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Kalispell, Montana

Rural communities throughout the United States are experimenting with a Boston-based senior-assistance program that implements a shared-services approach to senior care. Although barriers to creating connectivity in isolated rural regions can be more challenging than in more urbanized cities, rural areas in Colorado and Montana are finding ways to make it work.

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Akron Children's Prepared to Help Adult Colleagues

Rachele Mongiovi

March 19, 2020 |

Spectrum News 1 Ohio |

Broadcast TV News |

Under 3 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Akron, Ohio

Akron’s Children’s Hospital has developed an emergency protocol should the COVID19 pandemic reach them. Acting preemptively, they have limited visitors, removed all volunteers over age 60, and have nearly 700 employees working remotely. Feeling prepared, they’re working to help prepare hospitals that serve adult populations as well.

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Minnesota restaurants are closed, but their cooks are still feeding those in need

Sharyn Jackson

March 18, 2020 |

Minnesota Star Tribune |

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Response Location: United States, Minnesota

Despite being among those hit hardest by the coronavirus, restaurant owners and workers in Minnesota are stepping up to provide meals for those in need. But, to sustain their generous operations, business owners may eventually need more outside help.

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Restaurant owner adapts to keep employees working amid coronavirus outbreak

Jordan Vandenberge

March 18, 2020 |

WEWS-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

Under 3 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Grafton, Ohio

Many businesses have been forced to close due to the coronavirus pandemic, but some restaurants – such as one in Grafton, Ohio – are turning their in-house servers into delivery drivers to stay open. As a means to both provide for the community and for the employees, restaurant owners are using the conversion from dine-in to to-go to bolster their financial reality.

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