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Education Companies Offering Free Subscriptions due to School Closings

Posted by Lee Cruz on March 13, 2020 at 10:00am

The link below is to a spreadsheet listing educational companies offering fee subscriptions due to school closings:

http://www.amazingeducationalresources.com/

COVID-19; Freelance Artist Resources

Posted by Lee Cruz on March 13, 2020 at 8:00am

This list is specifically designed to serve freelance artists, and those interested in supporting the independent artist community. This includes, but is not limited to, actors, designers, producers, technicians, stage managers, musicians, composers, choreographers, visual artists, filmmakers, craft artists, teaching artists, dancers, writers & playwrights, photographers, etc...

https://covid19freelanceartistresource.wordpress.com

Keeping Our Community Healthy, Safe & Informed

Posted by Lee Cruz on March 12, 2020 at 4:41pm

To Our Greater New Haven Community,

Health officials recommend social distancing as a course of action to combat the spread of the COVID-19; social distancing is widely seen as the most effective means of slowing the spread and reducing the impact of COVID-19 among our employees, their families and the communities in which we all live.

On this advice, The Community Foundation is notifying our community that we are taking the following steps in response to COVID-19 (Coronavirus). These precautions will be in place until at least March 27 and may be changed as circumstances dictate.

The Community Foundation will not hold events or host external meetings in person. Therefore,
- The Foundation's Annual Meeting and upcoming donor briefing are postponed.
- Capacity building workshops will also be rescheduled.
- As soon as alternative plans are confirmed, we will notify people by email and news will be posted to The Foundation’s website at www.cfgnh.org.
- When possible and desirable, meetings and other gatherings will be held virtually; you will hear from Foundation staff about these arrangements.
The staff of The Foundation are either working remotely or on staggering work schedules.
- Please contact staff members by email to conduct business during this time. You may also call their direct phone line and calls will be forwarded to the staff member. See staff directory here.

The Foundation encourages our staff, donors, nonprofits and all members of our community to stay informed about COVID-19 and to practice safe habits. The CDC website is a good resource for both. You may also call 2-1-1, text "CTCOVID" to 898211 or visit the State's coronavirus information website at www.ct.gov/coronavirus.

Thank you for your patience; as updates are known, we will communicate about them. Information will be shared via The Foundation's website (www.cfgnh.org/covid-19), email and social media channels.

Infections Diseases Show Societies Who They Really Are

Posted by Lee Cruz on March 12, 2020 at 4:30pm

Communicable disease has haunted humanity for all of history. As such, the responses to coronavirus in our midst have a grimly timeless quality. In fact, to one scholar, epidemics are a great lens for peering into the values, temperament, infrastructures and moral structures of the societies they attack. Frank M. Snowden is a professor emeritus of the history of medicine at Yale and author of Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present. An epidemic, he writes, “holds a mirror” to the civilization in which it occurs. He talks to Bob about what we can learn about ourselves from the infectious diseases we've faced, from the bubonic plague in the 14th century to the Ebola outbreak in 2014 to COVID-19 today.

This is a segment from our March 6, 2020 program, Our Bodies, Ourselves.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/infectious-disease-hold-societies-really-are-on-the-media

CT Department of Health: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Posted by Lee Cruz on March 11, 2020 at 9:50am

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Posted by Lee Cruz on March 11, 2020 at 9:30am

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Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak - World Health Organization

Posted by Lee Cruz on March 11, 2020 at 9:00am

On this website you can find information and guidance from WHO regarding the current outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) that was first reported from Wuhan, China, on 31 December 2019. Please visit this page for daily updates.

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019

Time to end prison gerrymandering in Connecticut

Posted by Lee Cruz on March 6, 2020 at 10:18am

Time to end prison gerrymandering in Connecticut

By SCOT X. ESDAILE

SPECIAL TO HARTFORD COURANT |

MAR 06, 2020

Connecticut proudly calls itself the Constitution State. But the state’s stubborn reliance on “prison gerrymandering” unfairly robs urban communities of political power and denies voters — especially black and brown voters — the constitutional guarantee of “one person, one vote.”

Connecticut draws its state legislative districts using “prison gerrymandering,” counting incarcerated people as residents of the districts where they are incarcerated, rather than in their home districts. It means an area such as north central Connecticut, where many prisons are located, would have an extra House district or two compared to if those incarcerated people were counted in Hartford, which would then have those districts and their representatives...

https://www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-op-esdaile-prison-gerrymandering-0308-20200306-ayets53otfdo7mtcqfme57ddnm-story.html?fbclid=IwAR2fj-aRDBKY0HWv8D54bhtYtQ3oKxE1EG80goo9v57ureOi1E_KYzsTmoM

What an equitable coronavirus response should look like

Posted by Lee Cruz on March 4, 2020 at 2:44pm

Pandemics highlight global inequalities, from who is educated about a disease to who can afford a visit to the doctor if they get sick, to who can work remotely—or even take time off work—to recover and prevent the spread of the disease to others. Health officials have said it’s inevitable that America will see an outbreak of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus that was first reported in Wuhan, China, and has since spread to more than 60 countries, infecting more than 88,000 people so far...

https://www.fastcompany.com/90470785/what-an-equitable-coronavirus-response-should-look-like?utm_campaign=eem524%3A524%3As00%3A20200304_fc&utm_medium=Compass&utm_source=newsletter

INTERVIEW Jacob G. Padrón’s Strategy to Make New Haven’s Long Wharf a Destination Theatre

Posted by Lee Cruz on March 1, 2020 at 11:20am

Jacob G. Padrón’s Strategy to Make New Haven’s Long Wharf a Destination Theatre

BY OLIVIA CLEMENT

FEB 29, 2020

...three clear goals: “to be artistically innovative, to be radically inclusive, and to find meaningful connection.” The middle pillar, of radical inclusivity, emanates from the work he has already been doing as the artistic director of The Sol Project, a national initiative amplifying the voices of Latinx playwrights and building artistic homes for artists of color, and as a co-founder of the Artists’ Anti-Racism Coalition...

https://www.playbill.com/article/jacob-padrons-strategy-to-make-new-havens-long-wharf-a-destination-theatre?fbclid=IwAR0r6PTizL2mg_2O4ItMSigSEcpYIsC_JbLVdkhRCRsJYfs_x8A6KPC3WE8

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