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Liberty Bank Foundation
Liberty Bank Team Announces Additional $100,000 to Support Local Community Partners in COVID-19 Response
April 27, 2020
Building on their first round of $100,000 in emergency grants they approved in April for ten local hospitals, Liberty Bank of Middletown, Connecticut today announced that through their charitable foundation they will be providing an additional $100,000 in funding to support several other community organizations in their COVID-19 response.
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Yale Daily News
UP CLOSE: COVID-19, homelessness and New Haven’s response
April 21, 2020
“What am I supposed to do?” asked a man at a March 19 COVID-19 press conference on the steps of City Hall. He was one of a half-dozen homeless individuals who interrupted Mayor Justin Elicker’s daily briefing.
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CIty Lab
No Easy Fixes as Covid-19 Hits Homeless Shelters
April 17, 2020
On Good Friday, Tyree Leslie traded a bunk bed in Multi-Service Center South, San Francisco’s largest homeless shelter, for a bed in a room lined with pale yellow wallpaper in the city’s historic Hotel Whitcomb. He gets three meals a day, his own bathroom, and the chance to truly shelter in place — away from the coronavirus that tore through the shelter he’s been staying in since the winter. “It makes a difference,” he says. “I’m just glad to be indoors.”
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myrecordjournal.com
Wallingford shelter moves guests to Meriden hotel as donations come in
April 14, 2020
The emergency shelter has moved its clients to a Meriden hotel, but local residents have not forgotten about them. Columbus House, the New Haven-based nonprofit that operates the Wallingford Emergency Shelter, recently moved nine guests from the shelter…
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Patch
Fairfield U. Responds to Community Needs Amid Health Crisis
April 4, 2020
"It's a significant amount of food," Gornicki said. "She was so moved, she just broke down and cried."
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New Haven Independent
Volunteers Sew 400+ Masks
April 2, 2020
MakeHaven volunteers have sewn 402 face masks for nonprofits and the Yale New Haven Hospital. Regina Bohn has made almost half of them.
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Middletown Press
Coronavirus challenge: Move 60 percent of homeless into hotels
April 1, 2020
In a push to help cities and towns, the state Department of Housing is looking to move 60 percent of the state’s homeless shelter population into hotels and permanent housing to help depopulate shelters and limit the spread of the coronavirus.
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Hartford Courant
Connecticut shelters rapidly moving people to hotels to prevent COVID-19 outbreaks; homeless individual tests positive in Hartford
March 30, 2020
Homeless shelters across the state are relocating many of their residents to hotels, in some cases emptying facilities completely, to prevent outbreaks of COVID-19.
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Shoreline Times
Guilford’s Cilantros prepares meals for homeless; turns shop into grocery store
March 23, 2020
While eateries and shops around her have closed their doors, Cindy Wallace has been able to keep Cilantro Specialty Foods not only open to the public, but hopping.
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Yale Daily News
Architecture students build affordable housing in New Haven
February 25, 2020
This past fall, first-year students at the School of Architecture completed the construction of a three-unit home in New Haven in partnership with a local nonprofit that fights homelessness.
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