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20 May 2020
New York, New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
New York City is piloting a methadone distribution system for residents struggling with opioid addiction during the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially intended to avoid unnecessary visits to medical centers, the model is no...
14 May 2020
Montana, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Farmers and ranchers across Montana are finding ways to share their products locally during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has seen livestock prices fall and food banks face higher demand. While some agricultural produc...
14 May 2020
United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Supply chains have been disrupted with the restrictions imposed by the Coronavirus pandemic, and farmers are suffering from a lack of buying customers. Meanwhile, food banks are in dire straits as more and more people...
12 May 2020
Grand Island, Nebraska, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
The restrictions imposed by the coronavirus have turned horseracing in Nebraska into an unexpected boon. City officials allowed racing tracks to be open—with precautions—because the horses' livelihoods depend on the j...
12 May 2020
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Amid the pandemic, medical researchers and an abortion-rights advocacy group in the U.S. are working to make the abortion pill available via mail. Although there is ambiguity surrounding the rules and regulations of h...
7 May 2020
New York, New York, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Communities and medical professionals are working together to create their own mutual aid supply chain as shortages of personal protective equipment plague U.S. hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic. This "tempora...
Grady Newsource
Anne Henley Walker
7 May 2020
Athens, Georgia, United States
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Under 800 Words
When restaurants and farmers markers shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Hearts of Harvest Farm teamed up with the drive-thru restaurant Cafe Racer to sell their produce to people in the Athens/Atlanta area. They ...
MIT Technology Review
Karen Hao
6 May 2020
China
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1500-3000 Words
Online retailers in China launched rural live-streaming initiatives to aid farmers in selling their products directly to consumers. After traditional selling methods were halted due to the novel coronavirus, farmers n...
5 May 2020
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A home health care cooperative, based in NY, turned to a worker-owned cut and sew cooperative, based in NC, to produce masks for their employees when they were unable to source them elsewhere. The cost of masks and g...
3 May 2020
Gustavus, Alaska, United States
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1500-3000 Words
To better meet the demands created by the coronavirus pandemic, a local grocer in a remote town in Alaska is redefiing and reforming how the local supply chain operates. A series of preemptive moves – such as creating...
1 May 2020
New Hampshire, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
To help deliver hand sanitzer to those who need it during the coronavirus pandemic, a distillery owner in Vermont and a lacrosse equipment online distributor in New Hampshire formed a partnership to create a distribut...
29 April 2020
Antioch, California, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
A Californian "food rescue" nonprofit called White Pony Express is shifting their usual processes to alleviate food insecurity to accomodate the change that COVID-19 has brought to their distribution systems. The grou...
27 April 2020
United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
Bookshop is a startup that launched to give indie book stores around the country a fighting chance while Amazon continues to dominate the book market. The startup offers book buyers a portal to a wide variety of shops...
26 April 2020
Denver, Colorado, United States
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800-1500 Words
Feed the Frontlines Boulder is one initiative of several across the state of Colorado that are working to support healthcare workers and restaurants during the COVID-19 pandemic. Individual donors and local nonprofits...
24 April 2020
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Under 800 Words
An Islamic organization called Downtown Denver’s Islamic Center is helping members of their community adjust to the quarantine and maintain their spiritual practice. All services and counseling has been moved online, ...
24 April 2020
New Mexico, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Deploying a state-wide COVID-19 testing strategy requires coordinating both public and private-industry stakeholders. In Utah and New Mexico, the appointment of “testing czars,” or public health leaders in charge of c...
WBFO
Marian Hetherly
20 April 2020
New York, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
The Special Olympics turned 50 in 2020, but the pandemic has put a damper on their original birthday plans. People with intellectual and physical differences who participate rely on the games for social connection, so...
20 April 2020
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
As communities around the United States face major job losses, those that have kept their economies local, like in Albuquerque, NM and Springfield, MA, are seeing more resilience in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
16 April 2020
Portland, Oregon, United States
Multi-Media
Under 800 Words
A collective of activists and anti-fascists named PopMob has transitioned from protesting right-wingers to producing hand sanitizer. They are working in collaboration with another group called The Rosehip Medic Collec...
16 April 2020
Pennington, New Jersey, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
With grocery stores at capacity with delivery services, and people not wanting to leave their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, local farms like Honey Brook Organic Farm are seeing huge increases in business. The Ne...
15 April 2020
Anchorage, Alaska, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
A group of three women Alaskan women banded together on Facebook to rally sewers across the state to sew masks for Alaska's front-line workers during COVID-19. Their Facebook group includes tutorials, outreach, and cu...
el Don
Oliver Rivero
15 April 2020
Santa Ana, California, United States
Multi-Media
Under 800 Words
Santa Ana College hosted a makeshift food pantry on their campus (organized by Orange County-based nonprofits Power of One Foundation and Official No One Left Behind), distributing a week's worth of food for a family ...
14 April 2020
Manchester, England
Text
Under 800 Words
A new initiative called #Task4Help recruits local university students to deliver groceries and other supplies to people who need to be self-isolated during COVID-19. It was originally started by an app called UniTaskr...
13 April 2020
Santa Ana, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The owners of an iconic pomade and Chicano hipster fashion manufacturing factory in Santa Ana, California have made the switch to hand sanitizer manufacturing in an attempt to reemploy furloughed employees during the ...
13 April 2020
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
Across the United States, restaurants have been forced to close their dine-in services due to the coronavirus, but many have switched to online order and to-go options in order to stay open. Now, some of these restaur...
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