Resource Database
Search below for opportunities to get help, give help, or donate to people in your community.
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.
NYC Small Business Services - Continuity Loan Fund
What: NYC Employee Retention Grant Program to help retain employees as businesses face decreased revenue.
Who: This program is available to New York City businesses with one to four employees that can demonstrate at least a 25% decrease in revenue as a result of COVID-19. Eligible businesses will receive a grant covering up to 40% of their payroll for two months. Businesses can access up to $27,000.
NYC Small Business Services - Employee Retention Grant Program
Who: Financial resources from the City of New York for both employees and employers affected by the COVID-19 virus, businesses (employers) who have 1-4 employees can receive financial help .
What: The City is offering small businesses with fewer than 5 employees a grant to cover 40% of payroll costs for two months to help retain employees.
Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services - Food Deliveries
Who can give help: Volunteers who have a car and are able to lift 15 pounds.
What: Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services needs volunteers next week (Week of March 30th) to pick up and deliver packs of frozen meals to our clients, to make sure they have enough food to get them through the crisis. Need is for 16-18 volunteers per day, most likely on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
Volunteers will meet at an open space (possibly a football field in Everett), load the meals from our caterer into volunteer’s cars, and then each volunteer will be given a route to deliver the meals in Somerville and/or Cambridge. Time of meeting likely between 9 and 10:30 am.
Volunteers need to submit a CORI form, and should reach out out to Colleen Morrissey:
Phone Number: 617-628-2601 ext. 3152
Email: Colleen.Morrissey@eldercare.org
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation (CRLAF)
Who can get help: Resources intended for immigrates.
What: Foundation provides information on testing, unemployment, information about legal rights, housing, access to food and healthcare, and more.
Opportunity Fund
Who can get help: Small businesses and entrepreneurs
What: The Opportunity Fund is a microfinance institution that typically lends to small businesses and entrepreneurs. Small businesses can apply to this organization to acquire loans to help them through the COVID-19 outbreak. Loans are typically geared toward entrepreneurs.
Employment Development Department State of California
Who: Financial resources from the State of California for both employees and employers affected by the COVID-19 virus, businesses (employers) can receive financial help as well as employees.
What: The resource is to provide employees with unemployment benefits, allowing the to keep their current job, and avoid financial hardships. The employers benefit because they can minimize or eliminate the need for layoffs, keep employees trained for when conditions improve and avoid costs of recruiting, hiring, and training new employees. Individuals must see the website below for additional information and forms to mail in to the state to receive help.
Phone Numbers: Employers call Work Sharing Program at 916-464-3343 or EDD Special Claims at 916-464-3300
United Way
Who can get help: Individuals with a variety of needs living across the United States
What: United Way improves lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world to advance the common good. Find your United Way Branch below.