Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
15 June 2021
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Locally owned restaurant delivery platforms charge lower commissions than national giants like GrubHub, allow customers to order food on smart-phone apps, and have found ways to be profitable while also keeping money ...
26 May 2021
United States
Video
Over 15 Minutes
In service industries that traditionally pay and treat workers poorly, worker-owned cooperatives serve as a humane alternative. Worker-owners at eight co-ops in four states describe the difference their jobs make in t...
25 May 2021
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In just its first few weeks of existence, the U.S. Small Business Administration's Restaurant Revitalization Fund approved more than $6 billion in aid to 38,000 restaurants and other food vendors suffering economicall...
20 May 2021
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Video
5-15 Minutes
Two Baltimore restaurants, Red Emma's and Joe Squared, show how running or starting as worker-owned cooperatives gave them pandemic-survival skills in a business climate that killed many other small businesses. By tap...
6 May 2021
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Video
5-15 Minutes
Baltimore ice cream maker Taharka Brothers is six Black men, worker-owners, who lost most of their business accounts at the start of the pandemic. They saved their business, and their jobs, by starting home delivery a...
The Kansas Leadership Center Journal (KLC Journal)
Audrey Korte
4 May 2021
Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
To help protect the predominantly Black community in Sedgwick County, Kansas, the county collaborated with local leaders and residents to create an information and messaging campaign that specifically addressed commun...
Next City
Rebecca Greenwald
30 April 2021
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Live Venue Recovery Fund offers a path for independent music operators to purchase their venue. The fund buys the properties, and collects rent, but are limited to a 12% return rate and the contract lays out a pat...
Reasons to be Cheerful
Nicole Gluckstern
5 March 2021
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
To save dozens of restaurants in San Francisco during the coronavirus lockdowns, a restaurant owner launched an organization that "provides monthly contracts to its restaurant partners to cook meals for underserved po...
1 March 2021
Hawaii, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
The Bridges program helped alleviate food insecurity in Hawaii by connecting local food producers with food banks. As a result, struggling farmers, who saw a sharp decline in sales after the pandemic, were also able t...
15 February 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A long-running fund in Philadelphia has been able to help struggling small-business owners in the city since 1854. The Merchant Fund has been able to provide 67 businesses with $307,000 in grants since the onset of th...
11 February 2021
South Korea
Text
800-1500 Words
The largest cinema chain in South Korea is renting screen time and auditorium space to video gamers as a way to supplement business income during the coronavirus pandemic. Though it doesn't generate a comparable amoun...
4 February 2021
Grand Junction, Colorado, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Colorado counties have launched "The 5-star Certification Program" as a way to incintivize businesses to comply with COVID-related precautions. Businesses that join the program must agree to adhere to certain public h...
26 January 2021
United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
The CARES Act was meant to help small businesses, including hospitals, find financial stability during the coronavirus pandemic, but confusing guidelines and a lack of oversight have impeded the success. This reality ...
22 January 2021
United Kingdom
Text
800-1500 Words
Quick Response (QR) codes have become a popular way to conduct contactless business, and even contact tracing, during the coronavirus pandemic. Restaurants and retail stores allow customers to order and pay by scannin...
8 January 2021
Wichita, Kansas, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
A handful of entrepreneurial individuals in Kansas have found success in starting businesses during the pandemic by leveraging customer needs and pandemic relief funding. Although this business plan isn't "foolproof,"...
8 January 2021
Coto Brus, Costa Rica
Text
Over 3000 Words
Coffee farmers in Costa Rica, who employ indigenous migrants and Nicaraguans to work during coffee harvests, have had to shift their practices to keep workers safe during the pandemic. The housing quarters for the wor...
Goodnet
Bonnie Riva Ras
1 January 2021
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Catch Together is supporting both fishermen and food banks by buying catch that would typically be sold to the restaurant industry. Fisheries were hit hard when the pandemic resulted in an economic slowdown and food b...
27 December 2020
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
As a second surge of the coronavirus pandemic spreads throughout much of the world, some manufacturers in the West have found ways to successfully avoid the economic fallout despite heightened restrictions. In one cas...
22 December 2020
New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
When the coronavirus pandemic complicated child care options for essential workers, a care work activist in New York devised an initiative to better connect parents with care networks and redistribute money to those w...
20 December 2020
Cook County, Minnesota, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In Minnesota, cross-sector collaboration, contact tracing, and a focus on adhering to public health safety protocols have helped Cook County avoid an outbreak of COVID-19 cases, despite being a tourist destination. Lo...
17 December 2020
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Instead of simply handing out its federal CARES funding to food banks, the city of Phoenix used the cash to produce meals by connecting hard-hit farmers with struggling restaurants. Meals were provided free of cost to...
15 December 2020
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In Cleveland, Ohio, several small businesses have joined a co-op of companies using an employee-owned model to help with the financial constraints brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. Although the process of joinin...
Civil Eats
Hannah Ricker
14 December 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The coronavirus pandemic highlighted the ways in which the food system is broken, but governments, NGOs, and philanthropists are working to address the discrepancies by connecting small-scale farmers of color with bus...
24 November 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Philadelphia's mandatory Eviction Diversion program, started as a way to help landlords and tenants to cope with pandemic-related economic struggles, requires landlords to enter mediation with tenants who are behind o...
18 November 2020
Finland
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
Both Finland and Norway have successfully kept COVID-19 cases at a minimum without fully implementing lockdowns within their countries thanks to a united government, closed borders, and mandatory quarantines. The stra...
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