Resource Database
Search below for opportunities to get help, give help, or donate to people in your community.
Healthcare Workers Childcare Co-op
Who can get help: Healthcare workers in St. Louis in need of childcare
Who can give help: Students and others with the ability and time to provide childcare services in the St. Louis area
What: Childcare services for healthcare workers in St. Louis
Email: help@hcwchildcareco-op.com.
Uber
Who can get help: Healthcare workers and people from low-income household are eligible.
What: Uber is offering free or discounted rides to front line healthcare workers, to and from patients’ homes as well as between healthcare facilities. For low income and vulnerable communities, Uber is offering discounted rides to and from essential service locations.
Student Support Healthcare Workers
Who can get help: Healthcare workers with children are eligible to receive help.
Who can give help: Students who are a part of the Harvard community are encouraged to volunteer.
What: This is a centralized volunteer form for students to help healthcare personnel (custodial staff, doctors, nurses, etc.) at Harvard-affiliated hospitals by offering different services including childcare, running errands (grocery/pharmacy runs), remote work (linking volunteers+workers), and more.
Contact student.covid.response@gmail.com for questions.
Project N95
Who can get help: Healthcare institutions in need of personal protective equipment (PPE) can receive help.
Who can give help: Anyone with personal protective equipment to donate, or anyone who knows of hospitals needing supplies, can get involved.
What: Project N95 connects PPE donors and makers to those in need of PPE.
YMCA of Greater Houston
Who can get help: This service is for essential personnel, defined as city & county staff responding to the crisis, first responders, medical personnel, food provision & distribution personnel (food bank and grocery stores), and other organizations & businesses providing critical services to the community during the crisis.
What: YMCA of Greater Houston is offering child care services for eligible healthcare and disaster service workers in the Greater Houston Area.
Emergency Child and Youth Care
Who can get help: Requires official invitation but if you meet the following criteria, you can be invited:
1. Work for the San Francisco Department of Health or One of its Community Health Clinics
2. Work for one of the San Francisco-based Hospitals
3. Have been activated as a Disaster Service Worker
What: Childcare for eligible Healthcare and Disaster Service workers in Greater San Francisco Bay Area.
Donate Utilities To Hospitals
Who can get help: Recipients are hospitals accepting donations across all states.
Who can give help: Anyone with personal protective equipment to donate, or anyone who knows of hospitals needing supplies.
What: An App (Donate utilities to hospitals) to connect donors to hospitals near them. Includes detailed descriptions of each hospital’s needs and points of contact.
Donate PPE
Who can get help: Hospitals & healthcare professionals who need Personal Protective Equipment
Who can give help: Anyone
What: Connect hospitals and healthcare professionals with their local communities to get PPE.
Covid-19 Student Service Corps
Who can get help: Anyone in the support health care systems, patients, and communities during the pandemic.
Who can give help: Students at Columbia University's medical, public health, nursing, and dental schools
What: Students at Columbia University are staffing a community information line and creating a PPE task force to organize procurement, donation, and manufacturing of personal protective equipment. Student researchers are also volunteering in CUIMC laboratories that are engaged in time-sensitive COVID-19 projects. See link to New York Times article.