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  • National Network Emerges to Feed Frontline COVID-19 Workers

    April 07, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    The idea of “feeding the frontline” - donating funds to purchase restaurant food that can be delivered to frontline healthcare works amidst the COVID-19 crisis - has spread like wildfire. In cities from San Francisco to Portland to Boston, individuals have stepped up to coordinate efforts and donations. By partnering with World Central Kitchen, a nonprofit founded by a celebrity chef, and Frontline Foods, “an umbrella effort formed to coordinate similar efforts across the country,” these charitable endeavors have gained legitimacy, funds, and the ability to scale.

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  • Detroit Gallery Packages Meals with Artist-Designed Coloring Book for Kids

    April 06, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    To help fill the gap for some 200 Detroit students who rely on school lunches, local artists and nonprofits are teaming up to distribute meals and provide creative inspiration. Library Street Collective, an art gallery in downtown Detroit, provides the students with sketchbooks developed by artists. Meanwhile, Standby, an acclaimed restaurant, prepares the meals. Partners from other Detroit organizations step in to help with additional logistics.

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  • Will Small Businesses Most in Need Get Help From the Coronavirus Relief Package?

    April 03, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    As small businesses, nonprofits, and independent contractors try to access funds made available through the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program, bankers across the country are doing what they can to step up, follow federal guidelines, and process loans as quickly as possible. New features, including the SBA fully guaranteeing PPP loans, are making them more accessible. From typical SBA lenders to community development financial institutions to credit unions, many financial institutions are trying to help as many businesses as possible.

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  • Convention Center Helps Build Sanitation Stations to Combat COVID-19

    April 02, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Athens, Georgia

    In Athens, Georgia, 70 miles east of the capital Atlanta, one empty convention center put its space to good use by producing sanitation stations to combat COVID-19. After losing $1.2 million dollars of business in a single day, the convention center leadership found a way to leverage their forklifts, exhibit hall, and loading docks.

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  • First to Feel COVID-19's Impact, Chinatown is First to Deliver Aid for Small Business

    April 02, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Renaissance Economic Development Corporation, a nonprofit loan fund in New York City, has helped Chinatown small businesses recover through 9/11 and Hurricane Sandy, and COVID-19 is the newest crisis it needs to navigate. It has been able to rely on its larger than standard loan loss reserve to have room for emergency loans to provide swift and integral support to Chinatown businesses.

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  • Baltimore Social Enterprises Turn Abandoned Homes into High-End Furniture and So Much More

    April 02, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    In Baltimore, a successful social enterprise collaboration involves employing formerly incarcerated people to deconstruct valuable old wood from abandoned homes, preparing the wood for production, then turning the wood into high-end furniture. The initiative has expanded by working with the U.S. Forest Service to repurpose fallen wood from around the country, and it has already found a new life for wood for at least 90 homes.

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  • California's Streamlined SNAP App Pivots to Meet COVID-19 Demand

    April 01, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    A state’s digital portals can be ways to reach residents’ needs as well as collect data on the real-time effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In California, the state’s SNAP assistance tool, GetCalFresh, emerged as a vital resources in the COVID-19 pandemic. Code for America originally developed the app to simplify access to federal supplemental nutritional assistance programs and is now relaying the needs of citizens as well as providing additional data on economic trends during the crisis.

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  • Minneapolis Offers People Experiencing Homelessness a Simple Gift: A Safe Place for Their Stuff

    March 31, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    A pilot program in Minneapolis is providing a safe place for unhoused residents to store their belongings for free and without any time limits. People experiencing homelessness can often be easily identified as such when lugging around baggage, an indicator that can affect their ability to find employment or negatively impact the quality of healthcare they receive. Although the pilot project was cut short by the shelter-in-place order, the city is looking to continue and expand the program due to the positive response from those experiencing homelessness.

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  • Seattle Turns Soda Tax Revenue into Emergency Grocery Vouchers During Pandemic Audio icon

    March 30, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    When Seattle passed its tax on sugar-sweetened beverages like soda in 2018, the program met a lot of resistance. But now, amid the coronavirus pandemic, the city is drawing on this tax revenue to provide $800 emergency grocery vouchers to families in need.

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  • Mission-Driven Lenders Already Providing Assistance to Vulnerable Businesses During COVID-19

    March 26, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The Business Center for New Americans, a nonprofit that offers loans with a focus on immigrant-run businesses, is going above and beyond to make sure its lenders get through the COVID-19 economic crisis. They are offering tailored support on how to apply for Economic Injury Disaster Loans, sharing other grant and loan opportunities, and using its status part of the SBA’s Microloan Program to offer new loans.

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