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Glendale Community College's mobile food pantry meets a rising wave of need during pandemic

Vera Castaneda

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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Local Farmers Act Fast to Meet the Current Crisis

Helena Touhey

April 09, 2020 |

Edible Rhody |

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Response Location: United States, Rhode Island

In Rhode Island, a collaborative, farmer-run food delivery service has come together as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As farmers around the state saw massive declines in orders, they came together to create an online ordering service and deliver their food, things like produce, coffee, flowers, and eggs, themselves. Since inception, they saw immediate success and have been working to figure out how to scale and serve more people.

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Students Start Nonprofit to Help Vulnerable Individuals During Quarantine

Vernie Covarrubias

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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South Dallas nonprofits join forces to fight COVID-19

Keri Mitchell

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

Javier Cabral

April 08, 2020 |

L.A. TACO |

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800-1500 Words

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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Daniel Goldberg's Zoomers to Boomers Spreads Across Country

Barry Punzal

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

Ruth Terry

April 07, 2020 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: United States

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

Robert Samuels

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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What some West Coast brands are doing to keep sales flowing during stay-at-home orders

Dawn Reiss

April 06, 2020 |

New Hope Network |

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Response Location: United States, Hayward, California

During the COVID-19 pandemic, food industry leaders, specifically those in the organic and health food category, are trying to figure out how to keep their businesses afloat. Nature’s Path has increased hourly pay of its workers and donated thousands of cases of food to charitable organizations, while smaller organizations like Down to Cook have shifted to direct to consumer models.

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Finland, ‘Prepper Nation of the Nordics,' Isn't Worried About Masks

Christina Anderson Henrik Pryser Libell

April 05, 2020 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Sweden, Stockholm

This article compares Finland to the other Nordic countries in terms of their preparedness for the coronavirus pandemic. After the Cold War, FInland started building up an emergency supply of medicine, food, and more. When the virus hit Finland, the stockpiles easily and quickly distributed the supplies amongst a network of facilities spread across the country. This article focuses especially on Stolkholm and how the two countries' responses differed.

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