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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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  • South Dallas nonprofits join forces to fight COVID-19

    April 08, 2020 |

    Dallas Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    Given the scale of the unprecedented crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, non-profit organizations in Dallas, Texas have banded together to pull resources and coordinate their response for people in need. The collaboration has enabled small non-profits and foundations to better find funders and people to serve.

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  • Students Start Nonprofit to Help Vulnerable Individuals During Quarantine

    April 08, 2020 |

    Pepperdine University Graphic |

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    Response Location: United States, Malibu, California

    SQD, Ink. (short for Self-Quarantined Delivery) is a student initiative at Pepperdine University that provides a free grocery delivery service to those who cannot do it themselves, i.e. the elderly or people with autoimmune disorders. Since its founding it has been picked up by student volunteers across the country and now has over 80 volunteers in cities like Denver, Chicago, and Los Angeles. The group relies on technology—social media, Venmo, and Factime—to conduct their business. The student founders are now looking to formalize their business model to become more efficient and scalable.

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  • How These Boyle Heights Bartenders Made Sure L.A.'s Undocumented Back-Of-House Workers Didn't Go Hungry During the Pandemic

    April 08, 2020 |

    L.A. TACO |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    After realizing that there was virtually no support systems out there for the black, brown, and potentially undocumented workers in the service—specifically bar—industry, a group of three friends formed a grassroots group called, "No Us Without You." They support undocumented back-of-house workers in the bar industry in L.A. by providing food relief kits. The group has had to build trust with the undocumented workers so that they would accept help in the first place, but they communicate with families in Spanish and reassure them that, "'This is not a handout. You deserve to eat during these times, too.'”

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  • 12 Ways Communities Are Taking Care of Each Other During the Pandemic

    April 07, 2020 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    With a crisis as ubiquitous as the COVID-19 pandemic, silver bullets simply do not exist. Fortunately, many grassroots initiatives have sprung up around the United States, like Pass the Lettuce, which encourages people to donate their stimulus checks if they are able, the Coronavirus Relief Fund, which provides relief to domestic workers forced to stay home, and the Sex Worker Relief Fund, which gives aid to sex workers who are outside of the system.

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  • Daniel Goldberg's Zoomers to Boomers Spreads Across Country

    April 07, 2020 |

    Noozhawk |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Barbara, California

    Zoomers to Boomers, a Santa Barbara-based services offering grocery delivery to senior citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic, has grown. What started as a local service, has grown to serve more than 10 cities across the United States. It’s also changed how it operates – creating relationships with local vendors to directly buy produce, protein, and dairy, to limit the needed grocery store visits.

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  • Hugs and snack time over video: How Indianapolis preschools go virtual

    April 06, 2020 |

    Chalkbeat |

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    Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

    Preschool teachers in Indianapolis are helping their young students cope with the sudden changes in their learning environment by focusing on activities that nurture their students and reinforce some elements of normalcy and routine. During their virtual school interactions, students participate in show and tell, focus on important lessons that reinforce basic skills and incorporate family members. Offline, the schools are also helping to address families' basic needs by sharing food resources.

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  • Covid-19 is ravaging black communities. A Milwaukee neighborhood is figuring out how to fight back.

    April 06, 2020 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    In Wisconsin, the coronavirus pandemic is disproportionately impacting black communities, but local residents are finding ways to help their fellow neighbors in times of crisis. Tactics including increasing testing in black communities, reframing rhetoric about the pandemic as acts of crime, and forming a local community group to solicit and deliver food donations, are helping this Milwaukee County step in to address concerns where the federal government hasn't.

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