PBS Next Avenue – AIDS Services Know How to Love in a Plague

April 17, 2020

Organizations created in the 1980s to serve very ill, homebound people with HIV/AIDS are demonstrating in this “after” that there is a greater-than-ever need for what they know about feeding and caring for people with life-challenging illness.

To get a picture of COVID-19 from the point of view of people whose work in local communities is rooted in caring for ill people in a pandemic, I checked in with some of the country’s leading service organizations created in the 1980s to serve people with AIDS.

Jamaica Plain Gazette – Community Servings prepared to keep delivering meals during COVID-19 crisis

March 30, 2020

Nonprofit organization Community Servings has an important job on a normal basis, but it has become increasingly vital in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Atlantic – ‘The Fact That I Can’t Fix Things Now Is Breaking My Heart’

March 26, 2020

In the restaurant industry, how to get cash to out-of-work servers—and food to gig workers suddenly without income—is the question on everyone’s mind.