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Organizing a food drive is a great way to help people in your community. You can select the local senior center, food pantry, or shelter that you want to support. Participants make a difference in their community through a fun and social event. Includes in this kit: overview, the basic steps, meeting an organizations’s needs, managing volunteers, publicity tips, sample Read more...
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In a perfect world, every animal would have a home with a loving family to protect and dote on him. The sad reality is that the world isn’t perfect, and there are countless creatures wandering the streets and stuck in shelters waiting for the chance to be saved. Here is the good news, though: there is a lot we can Read more...
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This article is a way of demonstrating five simple, yet effective ways anyone can help to combat homelessness in their own community. During a global pandemic and under Stay Home, Stay Healthy Orders, our neighbors who are unhoused need support now more than ever. Follow the link to learn more about how to organize a coat drive, distribute lunches around Read more...
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This article includes 7 budget-friendly ways to support the homeless shelter in your community. Typically, we look for ways to support our local shelter when the weather gets cold and people are looking for a warm meal and place to stay, but shelters operate all year long. They provide shelter, resources, and other services to individuals experiencing homelessness in winter, Read more...
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In coordination with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Red Cross is seeking people who are fully recovered from the new coronavirus to sign up to donate plasma to help current COVID-19 patients. People who have fully recovered from COVID-19 have antibodies in their plasma that can attack the virus. This convalescent plasma is being evaluated as treatment Read more...
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The Washington State Student and Youth Homelessness COVID-19 Response Fund is a project of Building Changes and the Raikes Foundation. Building Changes will work in coordination with the state Office of Homeless Youth (OHY) to distribute funds to organizations and school districts to meet needs that public dollars cannot. The fund wll support: finacial assistance for housing, food and the Read more...
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Undocumented folks along with elderly and disabled folks not only see this as a public health concern but as an economic crisis. As student organizers at South Seattle College, my peers and I have created this fund to provide rent assistance to undocumented people in Seattle affected by the pandemic. We cannot guarantee how much each household will receive since Read more...
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UTOPIA and Ingersoll are joining together to launch a joint Trans and Gender Diverse Emergency Community Aid Fund. With your support, we will work together to provide community financial assistance to community members who have lost income and stability in these challenging times. We have no doubt that collectively we can band together to uplift our community members most affected Read more...
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We are coordinating food and supply drop offs to people’s front doors. Please use this form if you would like to help make deliveries. We are an all-volunteer grassroots group operating in Duwamish and Coast Salish territories. We are prioritizing folks who are sick, disabled, quarantined without pay, elderly, undocumented, queer, Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color — including those Read more...
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This fund is aimed at helping those in the greater Seattle arts community who have been financially impacted by cancellations due to COVID-19. Depending on funding levels and amount of requests, priority may be given to artists from communities that have been historically and systemically economically disadvantaged in the Seattle Area: BIPOC artists, transgender & non-binary artists, and disabled artists. Read more...
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Let’s be clear, this is solidarity, not charity. In the absence of larger structural changes, such efforts will not be nearly enough and could burn out the people involved. So we are also supporting workplace-organizing efforts, demanding paid time off, quarantine pay, etc. We know that undocumented communities will be one of the most exposed groups with the least government Read more...
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The recent Coronavirus–COVID-19–community spread has compelled us to handle our health with the utmost importance. As we have transitioned into new phases of the outbreak, we have also witnessed vulnerable communities affected by the lack of economic support from our city and state. Undocumented folks along with elderly and disabled folks not only see this as a public health concern Read more...