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  • Did Ohio get it right? Early intervention, preparation for pandemic may pay off.

    April 09, 2020 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Columbus, Ohio

    By taking prompt action to shut down major tourist events and increase medical treatment capacity, Ohio’s early response to COVID-19 has, thus far, helped to temper the surge of confirmed cases in the state. Governor DeWine and the Cleveland Clinic began to mobilize resources prior to the state's first confirmed case. The Governor also suspended “The Arnold,” a popular fitness exposition in Columbus.

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  • Isolation: Was wir von Astronauten lernen können

    April 09, 2020 |

    Der Standard |

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    Response Location: Austria

    Auf engem Raum, in einem streng getakteten Alltag und ohne frische Luft zu schnappen: Wie hält man es Monate im Weltraum und mit der Crew aus? Mit Respekt, Empathie, Kommunikation – und viel Übung.

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  • Glendale Community College's mobile food pantry meets a rising wave of need during pandemic

    April 09, 2020 |

    Glendale News-Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Glendale, California

    California’s Glendale Community College normally operates a food pantry, called Food for Thought Pantry, for its students. Forced to close to slow the spread of COVID-19, it partnered with the Los Angeles Food Bank and the Glendale Community College charitable foundation to create a mobile food pantry for students and their families. Collecting food from farmers, wholesalers, grocers, growers, and distributors, they served a line of over 1,000 vehicles in April.

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  • High School Students Are Delivering Groceries To LA Seniors For Free

    April 09, 2020 |

    LAist |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    What started as one high school student delivering groceries to her grandmother has turned into a full-fledged organization called Zoomers to Boomers. Another similar group called Shopping Helpers LA has also popped up in the area with 300 high school volunteers delivering 100 grocery requests per day.

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  • Operation Food Bank Feeds 390 Families

    April 09, 2020 |

    New Haven Independent |

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    Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

    Due to COVID-19, the Connecticut Food Bank has not been able to staff their food pantry distributors and thus drop off food with no distribution help. The town of Hamden whipped up an army of volunteers in response to make sure that no families went without food during this trying times. Demand was so great that unfortunately, after distributing food to 357 cars, they had to turn away another 400 cars. Volunteers are dedicated to continuing this new makeshift food pantry every few weeks until supplies run out.

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  • Urban farm provides homeless shelter residents with good food and opportunities

    April 09, 2020 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    An innovative partnership between Bell Shelter, a homeless shelter, Grow Good, an urban farm, and the Salvation Army is bringing healthy food and cooking to a new audience in Los Angeles. People experiencing homelessness are able to get paid to learn culinary skills, and the food from the urban garden both feeds the homeless residents as well as earns income through a social enterprise model that helps fund the training and support programming. After shelter clients participate in the 12 week culinary training program, many are able to get full-time jobs at local culinary institutions.

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  • No reason to stop organizing

    April 09, 2020 |

    Boulder Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Boulder, Colorado

    For many activists, gathering in mass protest is their most powerful tool in their toolbox, but social distancing threatens this ability. But activists in Boulder County, Colorado are not letting the pandemic stop their mission. To stay compliant with social distancing, they are taking to Zoom to organize during the crisis.

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  • Even Parks Are Going Online During the Pandemic

    April 09, 2020 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    As cities in the U.S. are placed under various degrees of lockdown, organizations are working to virtually bring "environmental education and recreation to viewers, from the comfort of their homes." Although virtual walks and live talks with park rangers are not a replacement for the lived experience, studies have shown that this type of contact does offer some benefits to mental health and well-being.

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  • Minneapolis Funding Its Parks With an Eye to Equity

    April 09, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board has approved a new scoring system to prioritize parks that are most in need of an investment, from the limited funds available, based on equity measures such as race, income, population density, and crime. This data-driven system is used in conjunction with the park board's judgment of a park's infrastructure and has pinpointed parks which were not typically on the park board's radar for renovation.

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  • How custodians in Durham Public Schools were granted paid emergency leave

    April 09, 2020 |

    The Daily Tar Heel |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    In March 2020, North Carolina’s Board of Education, in response to COVID-19, approved paid emergency leave for all school employees – but with 100% pay only going to those that qualify as “high risk.” With many of the affected employees being Spanish-only speakers explanations of the detailed leave policies were not comprehensive, making the roll out of the relief confusing and inaccessible.

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