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Things like job disruption and inflation after the COVID-19 pandemic are pushing more families than before into poverty, but community agencies are joining forces to help lift them back up.

/ United Way of the Big Bend President/CEO Berneice Cox At the start of the pandemic, many Tallahassee non-profits feared their donations and future were in jeopardy. But the areas largest not-for-profit funder reports a totally different picture quickly emerged. That organization is the United Way of the Big Bend, where Berneice Cox has been the president and CEO since late 2019. She said a COVID response there was quick in coming. "Whenever we had our first cases, we started a COVID-19 relie...