Ways You Can Help – Coronavirus Aid Efforts in NYC

Now more than ever New Yorkers need to band together to help each other and their community. Here are ways for you to do just that. If you have any recommendations for me to add to this list, please reach out! And if any of the below links are not working properly, please contact me so that I can fix them.

Where to Donate

• Medical Supply Donations and Support for Medical Workers 
  • Donate to Get PPE Supplies (Masks, Scrubs, Etc) to Maimonides (one of Brooklyn’s BUSIEST hospitals)
  • Donate to Get Medical Supplies to SUNY Downstate – another hospital serving the Brooklyn community
  • Donate to Get Medical Supplies to Mount Sinai – one of NYC’s largest healthcare organizations, serving communities throughout the city
  • Donate to Get Medical Supplies to New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital – another hospital serving the Brooklyn community
  • NYC Health and Hospitals – Donate to help healthcare workers with meals, groceries, hotel rooms, laundry services and scrubs
  • Help Get Masks for First Responders
  • Donate to Help Others Make Masks
  • Make A Mask
• Workers and Companies in Heavily Impacted Industries 
  • Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (including self employed, independent contractor, etc)
  • COVID-19 Grassroots Relief Models – A MASSIVE list of local relief efforts in New York City and beyond (i.e. LA, Denver, etc). This list is likely to be continuously updated so check it regularly!
  • The New York Community Trust NYC Covid-19 Response & Impact Fund 
    • From the website: “Created to aid nonprofit service providers struggling with the health and economic effects of the coronavirus. It will give grants and loans to NYC-based nonprofits that are trying to meet the new and urgent needs that are hitting the city. Priority will be given to nonprofits addressing essential healthcare and food insecurity as well as arts and culture, because New York is the cultural capital of the nation”
  • Home Girl Emergency Fund
    • From the website: “Fund created by the founders of Homegirl Box, designed to help women, non-binary and gender expansive folks with expenses like rent support, food, transit and other urgent needs”
  • Go Fund Me Covid Relief Fund
  • Go Fund Me Small Business Relief Initiative
  • COVID-19 Freelance Artist Resources
    • From the website: “an aggregated list of FREE resources, opportunities, and financial relief options available to artists of all disciplines”

Food Services

• • Food Bank for New York City Covid-19 Readiness Response 
  • World Central Kitchen

Help for Children and Families 

• • Sheltering Arms COVID-19 Emergency Fund
    • Help this organization which assists under-served communities in New York City continue their range of family services (education, youth development, well being, foster care and adoption, development disability services and more)  which are even MORE important during this time
  • Launch Good Coronavirus Emergency Response
    • Raising funds to assist low income families with financial assistance grants around the country
  • FirstBook
    • From the website: “help deliver seven million books to children in the United States who do not have internet access or home libraries so they can continue learning while schools are closed”

Help for Highly Vulnerable Individuals  

• • NYC Free Food Delivery Service
    • A special program for those who are unable to get the food that they need and are unable to be served by other chartiable food service providers
  • Free Meals Locator
    • Free meals for those in need in Harlem, the Bronx and Queens
  • NYC COVID-19 Resources for People With Disabilities
  • Covid-19 Mutual Aid Fund for LGBTQI+ BIPOC Folks
    • Relief fund prioritizing LGBTQI+, non-binary, gender fluid, and gender non-conforming people of color
  • I Am WomanKind
    • Support for survivors of gender-based violence to rise above trauma and build a path to healing
  • Meals on Wheels
  • Presbyterian Senior Services
  • Bowery Mission
  • St Ann’s Corner of Harm Reduction
  • HomeCrest
    • Provides community-based, multi-social services for seniors and immigrant families living in Southern Brooklyn

Help for Educators 

• • Donors Choose Coronavirus Relief

Job Opportunities 

• NYC Food Delivery (Registered TLC Drivers Only)
• What Companies Are Currently Hiring in NYC?
  • List of NY based companies or companies with a strong NY presence looking to hire a substantial number of New York workers
• Who’s Hiring Now?
  • LinkedIn has been keeping a running list of companies that are looking to beef up their workforce nationwide. Keep checking this list for updates!