Resource Database
Search below for opportunities to get help, give help, or donate to people in your community.
State of Alaska - Unemployment
Who: For individuals who have lost their job.
What: Individuals can use the state's website to apply for unemployment benefits.
Healthcare Workers Childcare Co-op
Who can get help: Healthcare workers in Philadelphia.
Who can give help: Students or others with the ability to provide childcare.
What: Volunteer childcare for the children of healthcare workers.
Email Address: help@hcwchildcareco-op.com.
305 Fitness Workouts Daily
Who: Anyone looking to join a fun group fitness class online.
What: Join #305LIVE Cardio Workouts Daily at 12PM & 6PM ET on youtube. Link in “Help or Info” below. For more info, check out www.305fitness.com.
12 Step-Online.com
Who can get help: People who typically attend a 12-step program in person .
What: This website is not affiliated with AA or NA, but it does host Meeting Rooms for Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous, among other 12-step programs. If your meetings have been canceled, this may be of value.
Distance Resistance Facebook Group
Who: Anyone with Facebook
What: Distance Resistance is a Facebook community fostering human connection in the face of social distancing. If you have a Facebook Profile, you can request to join, answer a quick question, and an admin will quickly approve your request.
StopCOVID.co
Who can get help: This resource is for essential workers, which includes cashiers, delivery drivers, maintenance people, and other workers who are on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis
What: StopCOVID.co provides training via text message to essential workers about COVID-19 for free.
For more information, email info@stopcovid.co
2-1-1 King County
Who can get help: Everyone can receive help
What: King County 2-1-1 connects people to the help they need. They provide the most comprehensive information on health and human services in King County. Whether it’s for housing assistance, help with financial needs, or to find the location of the nearest food bank.
For help text your zip code to 877-211-9274
SF/Marin Foodbank Locator
Who can get help: Disabled, Elderly, Urgent Situation with no food.
Location: 900 Pennsylvania Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94107
Phone Number: 415-282-1900
Scholastic Learn-At-Home Content
Who can get help: Parents looking for Grades K-3 or 4-8 online content for kids.
What: Day-by-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing.
Purple Mash & Serial Mash
Who can get help: Parents looking for K-3 online content and home school curriculums for kids.
What: Purple Mash provides fully mapped curriculums for students. Serial Mash provides over 100 books for kids. Accessible anywhere on any device.
Rethink Food NYC
Who can get help: Any families in New York City who are in need of food are eligible for meals. NYC-based Restaurants who are impacted by COVID-19 are eligible for the Restaurant Response Program.
Who can give help: Anyone is eligible to volunteer in their kitchen program or donate to their food program.
What: Rethink Food NYC Inc is a non-profit organization working to recover nutritious excess food to provide low or no-cost meals to New York City families in need. Due to COVID-19, they have increased their services and opportunities to get involved.
Mutual Aid NYC
Who can get help: Anyone in the New York City area who has been impacted by COVID-19 is eligible to request help.
Who can give help: Anyone in the New York City area who is able to help others is encourage to volunteer.
What: Mutual Aid NYC is a network of volunteer New Yorkers organizing to provide aid and support to New Yorkers impacted by COVID-19.
NYC Schools Free Meal Program
Who can get help: All children of New York City, as well as their parents and guardians when present with their children, are eligible for free meals.
What: The New York City Department of Education offers free breakfast, lunch and afters chool meals to all NYC public school students during the school year. Beginning March 23, meals will be distributed at over 400 locations across the city.
God’s Love We Deliver
Who can get help: The resource serves individuals who are too sick to shop or cook for themselves, and their dependent children and senior caregivers. Individuals must be living with a serious illness, have some restrictions in activities of daily living (such as difficulty standing or walking), and be able to get doctor’s verification of these limitations.
Who can give help: Anyone who is interested is encouraged to volunteer.
What: God’s Love We Deliver provides meals to people in New York living with a chronic or life-altering illness, especially those who have trouble cooking and/or shopping.
Encore Community Services
Who can get help: Seniors in New York who live in West Manhattan and are homebound are eligible.
Who can give help: Anyone is eligible to volunteer.
What: Encore Community Services delivers hot and frozen meals to seniors in Manhattan who are unable to leave their homes.
For seniors wanting home delivered meals, call 212-581-2910, and press 3.
For people interested in volunteering, email volunteer@encorecommunityservices.org or call 212 581 2910 ext. 1108.
FoodPantries.org
Who can get help: Anyone is able to access this resource.
What: FoodPantries.org is an online platform that tracks all food pantries in the U.S. to help people in need find one near them.
St. Francis Center – Homelessness
Who can get help: People are unhoused or homeless in Los Angeles are eligible to receive home.
Who can give help: Anyone is able to volunteer.
What: St. Francis Center offers a range of services to support people who are experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles, including meals, hygiene services, health care, and resource connection.
Material Aid and Advocacy Program (MAAP)
Who can get help: MAAP provides support to members of the Boston community who are unhoused and/or living in poverty.
Who can give help: Anyone who has material goods that could meet MAAP’s needs are encouraged to donate.
What: MAAP is supporting those who are unhoused through material aid, access to resources, and advocacy. During the COVID-19, they are focused on getting people who are homeless essential goods they need to stay healthy and survive.
Phone: 617.876.5312
Email: churd@maapma.org