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6 July 2020
Hawaii, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Since single-use plastic usage has increased since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations in Hawaii are planning beach cleanup events to pick up the plastic waste. Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii’s first beac...
Geekwire
Lisa Stiffler
1 July 2020
Washington, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Common Power is a voting justice organization where volunteers conduct outreach to voters and lobby elected officials for things like widespread mail-in voting due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The group has prioritized c...
Transitions Online
Maryia Vaitovich
29 May 2020
Minsk, Belarus
Text
1500-3000 Words
Based on one Instagram post forwarding a request from a doctor for protective gear for his hospital, #BYCOVID19 grew into a large-scale clearinghouse to funnel donated supplies to front-line medical workers in Belarus...
28 May 2020
Dallas, Texas, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
To increase COVID-19 testing in one Dallas neighborhood, community leaders, healthcare professionals, and a local church have joined together to implement a testing site directly in the community. Offering 250 free te...
4 May 2020
Denver, Colorado, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Across Colorado, grassroots groups have come together to create homemade masks for the state’s most vulnerable populations to protect against COVID-19. Two of those populations are Denver’s Downtown Detention Center a...
Grady Newsource
Erica Jackson
30 April 2020
Athens, Georgia, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Volunteer groups in Georgia are making cloth masks for non-coronavirus patients at local hospitals so that personal protective equipment can be reserved for medical staff in direct contact with COVID-19 patients. Alth...
27 April 2020
Kampala, Uganda
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800-1500 Words
Strict social distancing and stay-at-home orders – including the suspension of public transportation – in Uganda during the coronavirus pandemic have made if difficult for those who need anti-retroviral (ARVs) drugs t...
15 April 2020
London, England, United Kingdom
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Under 800 Words
In the United Kingdom, a grassroots network called Scrub Hub is gathering groups of volunteers to sew scrubs for hospital workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic. The groups are self-organizing, raising money on their ...
13 April 2020
Sacramento, California, United States
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Under 800 Words
In Sacramento, a mobile shower unit is helping the city's homeless population stay clean and safe during the COVID-19 outbreak. Volunteers with the unit are also distributing fresh clothes and bagged lunches.
13 April 2020
England
Text
800-1500 Words
Across England, businesses are stepping up to help their neighbors during the COVID-19 pandemic. There’s Glasses Direct, which is gifting 4,000 pairs of glasses to National Health Service workers, and Fully Charged, o...
11 April 2020
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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800-1500 Words
With COVID-19 causing the shuttering of restaurants around the country, the Minnesota Central Kitchen collaboration brings together furloughed chefs – and their restaurants’ ingredients – to help feed those experienci...
WUFT
Lexi Flechner
10 April 2020
Alachua County, Florida, United States
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Under 800 Words
The county of Alachua in Florida has created a centralized online portal that connects volunteers with those who need assistance during the coronavirus pandemic. The portal also expands access to who has been able to ...
Temple Update
Matthew Silverman
8 April 2020
Texas, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
ER doctors and other hospital staff who need to isolate themselves from their families can use a camper or mobile home to create a safe distance. The Facebook match-making group, RVs for MDs To Fight the Coronavirus, ...
7 April 2020
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
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Under 800 Words
By recruiting friends and community members, volunteers were able to repair thousands of protective masks. Having been in storage, a large collection of N95 masks had had the elastic dry rot while the filters remained...
3 April 2020
Berkeley, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Activists in Berkeley, California, are filling in what they say is a gap in homeless services during the coronavirus outbreak. Volunteers are safely delivering food and other supplies to those without shelter.
31 March 2020
Eschwege, Germany
Text
Under 800 Words
A village in Germany has implemented a local hotline for at-risk community members to use if they need help obtaining essentials during the coronavirus pandemic. The group of volunteers managing the hotline work under...
OZY
Joshua Eferighe
28 March 2020
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
As hospital staff struggle to stay safe during the coronavirus outbreak due to a lack of personal protective equipment, citizen-led groups are working to fill the gap by producing or connecting masks with health care ...
26 March 2020
San Diego, California, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
Upon seeing a need for educational resources to support the out of school transition due to the COVID-19 outbreak, two high school seniors in the San Jose area stepped up to fill that gap. Sarika Sriram and Uditha Vel...
26 March 2020
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Businesses and individuals around the world are pivoting from business-as-usual to churning out masks to fill shortages in supplies for hospital staff and others amid COVID-19.
25 March 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
With a massive shortage of protective gear in the medical community amidst the coronavirus outbreak, volunteer groups are filling the gap by crowdsourcing masks, gowns, and other essential items. Though the government...
24 March 2020
Washington, Indiana, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Community members across the world are working to make homemade masks to help healthcare workers who are facing shortages. In some cases, one person's efforts have balooned into community-wide initiatives, as people u...
24 March 2020
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
As social distancing and isolation become increasingly important in stopping the spread of the coronavirus, volunteers and neighborhood groups are helping seniors and Immunocompromised people access necessessities. In...
24 March 2020
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Healthy citizens desperate to find a way to help those at risk of developing severe coronavirus symptoms are creating spreadsheets detailing what services they can offer to their neighbors, whether it's grocery shoppi...
24 March 2020
Toronto, Canada
Text
800-1500 Words
The caremongering movement, in stark opposition to fear mongering, involves mutual aid societies and neighborhood groups that have sprung up to provide local, voluntary relief during the COVID-19 pandemic. These group...
21 March 2020
Anacostia, Washington, United States
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800-1500 Words
As the coronavirus pandemic sends people to grocery stores to obtain supplies, a grassroots effort is underway in one neighborhood in Anacostia, Washington to help get food to those who have difficulty accessing stori...
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