by Neighborhood Media Foundation
Late on Thursday, May 7, Facebook announced the Erie Chinese Journal was awarded a COVID-19 Local News Relief Fund Grant from the Facebook Journalism Project (FJP) Community Network Grant Program.
The Chinese newspaper, which has its headquarters in Cleveland, is one of only 144 media outlets to be awarded a grant across the US from FJP, of which only four were located in Ohio.
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By Afi Scruggs
This public service journalism article provided by nonprofit nonpartisan Eye on Ohio, the Ohio Center for Investigative Journalism.
After changing the guidelines to test ethnic minority groups disproportionately affected by COVID-19, the CDC reversed course again Wednesday, saying that African Americans exposed to the virus could not get tested without symptoms.
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Please join EPIC- Ensuring Parole for Incarcerated Citizens-a non profit 501(c)(3) fighting for fair laws and treatment within Ohio’s Penal system, “Teezy” from St.Clair– an artist from the Cleveland area (formerly incarcerated behind the walls of MCI) and Councilman Basheer Jones– for A CRY FOR HELP protest at Marion Correctional Institution at 3 pm May 2nd.
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The Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH) launched a Mutual Aid Fund to provide support for grassroots, community-based responses to the COVID-19 crisis. NEOCH was inspired by Cleveland Pandemic Response (CPR), a group of local organizers and volunteers who launched a community hub, to directly match people in need with neighbors offering support. Knowing that large systems can be slow to respond, CPR uses a mutual aid model to link community members to free goods and services, and to volunteers who can run errands for people at high risk of infection.
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Community raises more than $7.6 million, grants approach $2.8 million in support of frontline nonprofit organizations in Greater Cleveland
CLEVELAND (April 17, 2020) – The Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund coalition announced today its fourth round of weekly grants to support the Greater Cleveland nonprofit community, which continues to face unprecedented challenges during the ongoing pandemic. In total, $492,713 was awarded to 12 organizations and groups serving Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties, bringing the overall grantmaking amount to nearly $2.8 million in the month since the Fund’s creation.
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“It literally consumes everything I do”: Ohioans desperate to reach unemployment hotline as calls dropped, claims languish
-Jessica Zalants
By Cid Standifer [for Eye on Ohio]
Marcia Gassaway was in the first wave of Ohioans put out of work by COVID-19.
The single mom from Cleveland went to the emergency room on March 15. Due to her coronavirus-like symptoms, doctors ordered that she be quarantined at a special facility.
Now, she’s recovering at home with her children, calling the unemployment help line over and over again.
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by The Plain Dealer News Guild
The Plain Dealer newsroom will no longer be covering Cleveland, Cuyahoga County or the state of Ohio.
Editor Tim Warsinskey announced Monday to the 14 remaining staff members that the newsroom would, with a few exceptions, become a bureau covering five outlying counties: Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina and Portage.
The move would bar most of the reporters from covering stories in Cuyahoga and Summit counties, as well as statewide issues, where they have developed expertise and have institutional knowledge.
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SMALL BUSINESS ALERT The Federal Reserve said it would try to keep credit flowing to households and businesses by buying up commercial paper, short-term promissory notes companies use to fund themselves. At the same time, the Trump administration is preparing to ask for about $850 billion in additional stimulus to…
In accordance with Mayor Frank G. Jackson’s recent Proclamation of Civil Emergency, the City of Cleveland continues to take numerous precautions across multiple departments and divisions amid increasing cases of coronavirus (COVID-19). Click here to view the mayor’s declaration. The City continues to work in partnership with local safety agencies, county public…