Donating your stimulus check

[tanaqui]

If you're fortunate enough not to need the financial support of your stimulus check, you could donate all or part of it to help someone who does need more support.

The National Domestic Workers Alliance has a specific fundraising initiative called the Coronavirus Care Fund that supports its work to:

slow the spread of the virus by providing emergency assistance for domestic workers that enables them to stay home and healthy.

Without access to health care, paid sick leave, or job security, they are being forced to navigate this crisis alone — without a safety net.

The money you donate to the Coronavirus Care Fund will provide immediate financial support for domestic workers, and enable them to stay home and healthy — protecting themselves, their families and their communities while slowing the spread of the Coronavirus.

Donate to to the Coronavirus Care Fund here

You could also make a donation to your local food bank.

Let us know in comments of other places you think people should consider if they want to donate their stimulus check.

Comments

[jjhunter]

I am so grateful that the Greater Boston Food Bank is stepping up so well.

ProPublica is doing its usual stupendous job of in-depth public journalism, both in terms of USA coronavirus coverage and other topics.

Partners In Health is not only training and managing a mini army of contact tracers in Massachusetts operating with compassion & 'expert mercy' to help alleviate the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA (not to mention also in the Navajo Nation!), they're also organizing similar efforts everywhere they have partners globally - Haiti, Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico, Peru, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone. Any money you send their way will get stretched far.

[fabrisse]

I'd settle for getting mine. But yes, I plan to donate at least a quarter to the Red Cross. They're helping to organize the plasma drive for people with antibodies to be used on the very sickest cases. It's a promising treatment.