When major disruptions happen in communities, often the first people to respond are the residents themselves and their ...
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The networks, in which community members pool resources and distribute donations to care for one another, seek to avoid the traditional charity model of giver and receiver. Animal rescue drive a boat ...
Sharifah Taylor had all but given up on getting a COVID-19 vaccine. She had a frustrating time trying to book an appointment online, repeatedly confronted with a blank white screen instead of a ...
During Covid, people have organized to check on the elderly, help neighbors navigate health care, and provide other assistance. Here, volunteers from Bushwick Mutual Aid deliver food to people in need ...
It starts with a phone call from the 707 area code. “Hello, my name is Damián Diaz. I’m calling on behalf of No Us Without You.” From his end of the line, Diaz often hears the hurried shuffling of ...
In 1980, when I was 4 years old, my family moved to Kenya. My father studied agricultural engineering in graduate school and had long dreamed of working in Africa, hoping to help subsistence farmers ...
On Wednesday night, photos posted to Twitter appeared to show something borderline unthinkable: Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas boarding a flight to Cancun, Mexico. In the middle of a pandemic. And in the ...
More than a decade ago, Erin Barnes came across data that drove home the importance of grassroots, volunteer-led groups. The U.S. Forest Service was trying to document all the groups that maintain ...