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Get Shift Done connects hospitality workers who need a paycheck with food banks that need a helping hand. Jain was chair of the North Texas Food Bank last year as the pandemic and shut down orders gripped the region. Restaurants closed; workers laid off. Food pantries in demand. Volunteers unavailable. In these desperate moments of the pandemic, an idea was at work. Food banks needed people, and hospitality workers who knew food needed work. "We set up the nonprofit in 72 hours. It was kinda cr...

Waiting is just not their style. When COVID-19 upended life in North Texas more than a year ago, many in the nonprofit world knew they had to quickly change how they fulfilled their missions. They also had to create new ones to rise to the challenges of the moment. Whether it was creating a path for entrepreneurs, finding a way to help furloughed hospitality workers while feeding the hungry or organizing the resources to help the Latino community, these North Texans shifted gears for good. Furl...

Even as average personal incomes rose during the pandemic largely because of government aid, millions of people who didn’t receive such help have fallen into poverty, struggling to pay for

By Tim Henderson Stateline.org/TNS Even as average personal incomes rose during the pandemic largely because of government aid, millions of people who didn’t receive such help have fallen into poverty, struggling to pay for food and other basic expenses. That group, trying to get by with the help of local charities, may have been excluded from the federal payments because of immigration status, lack of time in the labor force needed to claim unemployment benefits, or just red tape in states t...