The Contra Costa Regional Health Foundation has been chosen as a lead partner supporting a new regional “COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund” to help Bay Area residents adversely impacted by fallout from the coronavirus.
The Rapid Response Fund is supporting four key areas – food distribution, financial assistance, shelter and emergency housing and support for essential workers.
It has selected five Contra Costa County organizations to support during a first round of funding: The Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano, The Contra Costa Crisis Center, Shelter, Inc., Catholic Charities of the East
Bay and White Pony Express.
“The economic impact of COVID-19 in the Bay Area is immense, with the biggest impact on people who have been living on the margins,” said Bette Felton, the regional health foundation’s chairwoman. “These are families that can’t wait for government assistance in a few weeks – they are suffering and in jeopardy now.”
Additional organizations will be considered for future funding based on their ability to reach populations most vulnerable to the economic or health risks posed by COVID-19, their capacity to move fast and their ability to deploy their grants quickly.
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We need another NGO like Custer needed another Native American.
The president just stopped all funding to the corrupt W.H.O..Another job well down by the president.
I doubt it was well “down”. Proofreading matters.
Good choices. These community-based organizations are highly regarded for their work in providing vital safety net services.
Years ago to Shelter Inc. looking for emergency help and were extremely rude and was pretty much told there was no help for me. I also dealt with Catholic Charities and I told them I didn’t have money to pay for a service and the woman who “helped” was rude and told me that a fee was part of the process, in other words, there is no charity in Catholic Charities. I hope given this emergency situation, those two places go above and beyond helping people and the money doesn’t go to the pockets of the big people.
Y’all are dupes for failing to put this mild flu bug in perspective. CoCo County has a population of 1,154,000 and a current Wuhan death count of 13. Where was your hysteria two years ago when 164 Contra Costans died from the flu? You and your family don’t deserve a penny of aid if you’re willing to shut down 95% of our local economy with a mortality risk of 0.00001127.
Screw it…. I’m going back to work.
Nice you have a job that you can go back too… I would imagine you are climbing the walls….
It is starting to look like the politicians ( the ones not hiding under their desks ) panicked and now are running the long con on us.
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