How one nonprofit is marking the anniversary of the COVID-19 crisis
Amanda Ponzar, chief communications and strategy officer for CHC: Creating Healthier Communities, shares how her organization is putting an emphasis on health equity.
On March 11, it will have been a year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
After a year of crisis, and with many looking for messages of hope and recovery, how can organizations mark the occasion and help their communities? For CHC: Creating Healthier Communities, a nonprofit dedicated to helping change health outcomes for communities around the country.
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As its cause, the team decided to focus on health equity, an issue that has risen to the fore during the COVID-19 pandemic as Black, Hispanic and Native American communities have faced disparate outcomes from the virus. To make a difference, CHC is calling for a day of giving, with funds to be raised to try and address health equity and aid nonprofits across the country who have suffered lost donation revenue during the crisis. The campaign has raised $150,000 so far with cash and in-kind donations.
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