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Apr 15, 2020

Re-Entering the Fray

Medium reports on how organizations like the Center for Employment Opportunities are adapting their efforts to keep participant engagement and trust high despite unprecedented challenges.

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Apr 14, 2020

Foundations and Donors Step Up Grants to Help Workers Hurt by the Pandemic

The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports on new philanthropic efforts to help workers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, including Blue Meridian Partners who, as part of their approach, is funding organizations providing direct cash assistance.

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Apr 14, 2020

The new new thing in philanthropy? Cash.

Medium Business reports on how strategic philanthropy like Blue Meridian is adapting practices to fund organizations providing direct cash assistance to those in need during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Apr 14, 2020

Blue Meridian Announces $100 Million COVID-19 Response Initiative

Philanthropy News Digest reports on how Blue Meridian is responding to COVID-19 by both supporting current investees to accelerate their work and investing an additional $100 million in an initial set of direct-relief organizations.

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Apr 10, 2020

How Adrian Haro Is Fighting to Bolster the Power of Workers Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

Workers Lab interim CEO explains to Nationswell how his organization is innovating to not only consolidate and bolster worker power, but to provide immediate relief to those who need it most as a result of the pandemic.

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Mar 28, 2020

Maintaining emotional health amid ‘stay at home’ orders

Rahil Briggs, National Director of HealthySteps, shares with Fox viewers how families can maintain their emotional health amid coronavirus pandemic.

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Mar 5, 2020

Two Cleveland ‘Bail Disruptors’ Are Putting up Money to Free People Awaiting Trial, While Working to Reform the System

SCENE reports on how The Bail Project team works to bail out individuals detained in jail while awaiting trial in Cleveland.

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Feb 26, 2020

How nurses’ home visits help families—and why they’re needed everywhere

This conversation with Executive Direct Chris Bishop details how Nurse-Family Partnership is successfully improving an array of outcomes for young children and their families.

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Feb 18, 2020

When Bigger Is Better

Government Executives explains the importance of scaling evidence-based programs like Nurse-Family Partnership.

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Feb 10, 2020

How Charlotte seeks to break the cycle of poverty, one child at a time

A Charlotte, NC news channel reports on how programs like Nurse-Family Partnership are the solution to the city's economic mobility problems.