Health & Healthcare

COVID-19's Impact on Fair Trade Producers
As families in fair trade communities attempt to stay on top of the latest pandemic news and information on how to stay safe, the ramifications of COVID-19 continue to unfold.

The funds from the Fifth Third Foundation are pledged to The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida and directed to Florida’s First Coast Relief Fund to help meet the immediate needs of individuals in the community.

This new virtual lab will offer 400 high school students from backgrounds historically underrepresented in STEM a first-hand experience in biotechnology and provide the opportunity to learn directly from leading scientists at Biogen and MIT.

With the VA seeing an 800% surge in telehealth visits, and with nearly 20,000 patients now meeting with their VA healthcare teams daily, the T-Mobile network is more than ready to support the VA without missing a beat.

Still working in my home office sequestered like most of the world’s population. I’m writing late at night not able to sleep as anxiety gets the better of me. In my last blog, I wrote about my wife taking care of our grandson while his mother (and my daughter), Erin, works on the front lines in the ICU at a local hospital caring for patients affected by COVID-19.

Tetra Tech provided engineering design and construction oversight services on a quick-response project managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Philadelphia District, to convert a closed and partially abandoned hospital into a 250-bed facility to receive non-acute COVID-19 patients in East Orange, New Jersey.

In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom stated that, “All countries must strike a fine balance between protecting health, minimizing economic and social disruption, and respecting human rights.”

In the fight against COVID-19, the Biogen Foundation is proud to support organizations like Fenway Health and NCAFCC, which are working on the frontlines to provide ongoing services with the ultimate goal of everyone having the healthcare they need.

The VF Foundation donation of $100,000 to garment workers in Bangladesh is providing a safety net for thousands of families affected by factory shutdowns precipitated by the global COVID-19 pandemic.

The Simón Bolívar Foundation Inc. (Simón Bolívar Foundation), the non-profit, private foundation of CITGO Petroleum Corporation, is awarding up to $278,380 from its COVID-19 Small Grants Program to ten 501(c)(3) charitable organizations for the ongoing development of health-focused projects in Venezuela.