Author’s note: 4/3.2020 – Just did an FAQ On The Stimulus Bill For Startups And Small Business Owners.

If you are hurting, here are some community resources that could support you during this time:

• Asian Pacific Environmental Network Emergency Community Stabilization Fund
• Bay Area Worker Support (BAWS) – Sex Worker ER Grant Fund
• Berkeley Relief Fund
• Chinatown LA Mutual Aid Fund 
• Cosecha Fund for Undocumented People
• COVID-19 WOC Artists Relief Fund
• Disability Justice Culture Club – venmo @DJCultureClub
• Emergency COVID Relief for Sex Workers in New York
• Emergency Legal Fund for Oakland Dreamers
• Feed ER
• Feed the Line
• Fundraiser for Asian Elders in the Bay Area
• Fundraiser to support students and families of Bridges Academy in Oakland
• Gods Love We Deliver 
• Green Light Project Sex Worker Aid Network Initiative
• Headwaters Communities First Fund
• Helping Immigrant Communities (a list from Jose Antonio Vargas) 
• Immigrant Safety Worker Relief Fund
• Keep Kids Learning
• Latino Community Foundation “Love Not Fear” Fund
• Millenium Family Relief Fund
• Mission Neighborhood Health Center
• Muslims Unite for Coronavirus Relief
• Nail Salon Worker Resilience Fund
• National Domestic Workers Alliance Corona Care Fund
• Navajo & Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund
• New York COVID-19 relief (a list from the NY State Youth Leadership Council)
• One Fair Wage Tipped and Service Support Workers Fund
• People’s Bailout from the Emergent Fund
• Pilipino Workers Center Fund
• Queer Writers of Color Relief Fund
• Restaurant Opportunities Center United Relief Fund
• Rudsdale Immigrant High School Students
• Santa Clara County (CA) COVID-19 Financial Solidarity 
• Seattle Artist Relief Fund
• SF LGBT Center
• SF/Marin Food Bank
• SisterWeb Support for Doulas out of work due to shelter-in-place rules
• Support Undocumented Families
• Undocufund for Undocumented Folks in Sonoma County (CA)
• Emergency Funds for Undocumented Youth and Families during COVID-19
• COVID-19 Mutual Aid Fund for+ BIPOC Folks

RESOURCE LISTS 

• An amazing list of resources  | Here is the same one in Spanish!
• Another big mutual aid and advocacy resources document
• Massive comprehensive resource list from Public Health Awakened
• Findhelp.org – lists free and reduced-cost, including COVID-19 specific, programs serving by zipcode
• Here is an exhaustive list of fundraising related to COVID-19 on Giving Compass
• SF-specific resources list from UCSF/SFGH 
• Resource List for Undocumented People – with general, state-by-state, and industry-specific links
• Resources for Undocumented Americans from CIYJA
• Bay Area Shutdown – Where Am I Able to Seek Help? 
• Evolving List of COVID-19 Emergency Funds from Moksh
• COVID-19 information in 100+ languages 
• Legal Aid Frequently Asked Questions about COVID-19
• Where Families Can Get Free Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner in SF
• Resources for Domestic Workers

Here’s how you can help

POLITICAL ACTIONS

• Contact your local/ state/ federal representatives and ask them to: 
  • Pass paid sick leave for all workers
  • Share these 5 principles for a just COVID Relief & Stimulus
  • End ICE detention & raids, release prisoners from jail, freeze rent, & stop evictions

Find your CA reps’ contact info: http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/

Find your federal reps’ contact info: https://whoismyrepresentative.com/

Use ResistBot to contact your lawmakers: https://resist.bot/

Use Indivisible to contact your lawmakers: https://indivisible.org/

• Connect with local racial and economic justice groups in your area and ask: HOW CAN I HELP? 
• Join Seed the Vote to defeat Trump in November
• Ask Mayor London Breed & SF Supervisors to extend city-sponsored childcare to grocery, foodservice, janitorial, & delivery workers (currently only for first responders/medical personnel) 
• Report hate crimes against Asian-American and Pacific Islanders 
• Sign up to text New Yorkers to fill out their census forms
• Sign up with groups to work on changing our government in November, and protecting free and fair elections.
  • Swing Left
  • Payback Project

More ideas here: How to take action without leaving the house

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES 

• Donate Blood – there is a “severe shortage” of blood products and healthcare professionals are asking for blood donations. Sign up at the link or call 1-800-RED-CROSS.
• Donate extra unused N95 masks to healthcare workers 
  • Another option for mask donation
• Donate masks, supplies, other PPE to UCSF
• Mask matching resource for multiple cities
• Donate thermometers and blood pressure cuffs for patients to use at home (SFGH) 
• If you have had a COVID-19 test (positive or negative) – please record your cough and send it to Cough for the Cure – an in-process remote COVID-19 diagnostic tool
• Project Open Hand (SF) 
• SF/Marin Food Bank 
• San Diego volunteer opportunities
• New York COVID-19 relief (a list from the NY State Youth Leadership Council)
• Check in on people! Call, text, email, FaceTime to see if they need anything – elderly, housing insecure, undocumented, work unstable, mental health issues, etc. Connection is important!