Philanthropy 360: Overview
Philanthropy 360 is produced by Communities Foundation of Texas for nonprofit organizations and others striving to build thriving communities through health, wealth, living and learning. The show’s lens is currently centered around all things related to community response to the coronavirus pandemic. Each episode, while short, will feature helpful resources and perspectives from the foundation’s team members and numerous partners.
Enjoy our first few episodes and listen each week as we walk together through the evolution of COVID-19 response, using the hope of what it means to thrive as a driving force to get us to its end. If you share on social media, we'd love if you would add our hashtags, #CFTImpact and #CFTPhilanthropy360.
Philanthropy 360: Season 1
Jay Cole, executive director of Crossroads Community Services, describes how the coronavirus pandemic is challenging the organization’s well-oiled hub-and-spoke food distribution network. The network, which nourishes people through more than 60 local partners in Dallas County, is distributing three times more food now than before COVID-19 times. He shares the organization’s needs, volunteer opportunities and some heart-tugging moments that make the work worth doing.
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Get Shift Done |
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Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests black people are disproportionately affected by COVID-19. Numbers released by Dallas County show a similar trend among black and Latinx people locally. Viruses don’t discriminate, but their spread can shine a light on existing race and class disparities in healthcare. Richie Butler, a board member of Communities Foundation of Texas and pastor of St. Paul United Methodist Church in Dallas, talks about this issue and the #WeNeed2Survive campaign, an effort to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on communities of color.
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#WeNeed2Survive | Dallas County Health & Human Services | How to make cloth masks
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The COVID-19 crisis has severely impacted the service industry while also putting many people in desperate need of meals. At the same time, nonprofits that usually provide food assistance are seeing a spike in the need for volunteers because of municipal physical distancing orders. Get Shift Done is a relief fund and initiative launched in North Texas to address all of these challenges. Sejal Desai of Communities Foundation of Texas’ CFT4Business chats with us about how the initiative started, the impact its having to stabilize incomes, relieve hunger and create opportunities for similar programs in other cities.
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Organizations interested in learning more about how to create a “Get Shift Done” program in their communities should send an e-mail to Sejal Desai at sdesai@cftexas.org. Members of the local hospitality workforce who have been affected by the COVID-19 economic shutdown and are looking to use their skills to provide hunger relieve to the community should visit GetShiftDone.org.
Check out this heart-warming story from The Chocolate MINT Foundation, one of the nonprofits partners with Get Shift Done. CFT is proud to support organizations like these with the help of Get Shift Done and Shiftsmart! We are better together.
The Mint Foundation + Get Shift Done
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The Deason Innovation Gym in the Lyle School of Engineering at SMU is putting its space to use to manufacture face shields for area medical professionals to use during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Communities Foundation of Texas put the muscle of its highly respected, well-recognized North Texas Giving Day brand behind Giving Tuesday to support the widespread regional needs that are a result of COVID-19.
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The coronavirus pandemic is forcing people to process the death of a loved one while navigating uncertainty, requiring us to do without the intimacies we expect to experience when someone dies.
*A NOTE OF CAUTION: This episode contains explicit details of a young child's suicide. If you or someone you know may be triggered by this conversation, we encourage you to care for yourself well by not listening or sharing.
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