How These Disabled Activists Are Taking Matters Into Their Own (Sanitized) Hands
If you’re interested in donating to a food bank, Feeding America has a national database of centers you can support, and it has established the COVID-19 Response Fund to provide additional aid to their member food banks. If you’re interested in giving money to a food pantry in your community, check out FoodPantries.org for donation and contact information.
Bay Area neighbors still sing and dance in light of coronavirus shutdown
The Rotterdam Philharmonic teamed up with a Dutch healthcare provider to film the finale of Beethoven’s 9th with all the musicians playing their parts by video from their homes. It’s an extraordinary achievement, overwhelming in the final minutes.
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The United Way has set up the COVID-19 Community Response and Recovery Fund specifically to give those hit hardest across a spectrum of issues assistance with such things as housing and utility payments; it fields requests from 1,200 local chapters.
MusiCares, an aid organization affiliated with the Recording Academy, launched a Covid-19 Relief Fund to provide financial assistance for housing costs to music industry professionals affected by COVID-19.
In Canada, helping others has become an organised movement called "caremongering". As it's all driven by social media, the altruism is arranged online and the hashtags provide a permanent record of all the good happening in different communities across Canada.
The state of Connecticut is asking anyone or any business/organization willing and able to donate PPEs (N95 respirators, masks, gowns, gloves, etc) to please contact: portal.ct.gov/Coronavirus/Pages/Request-for-Personal-Protective-Equipment