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‘So much need:’ Charity CEO offers 10 ways to help those struggling with COVID-19 pandemic
By Juanita James
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The Fairfield County Community Foundation CEO Juanita James welcomes representatives of area nonprofits to during Advocacy Day at Grace Farms in New Canaan in 2018.
It is not an overstatement to sum up this past year as one of extremes and unprecedented times for all of us. Throughout Fairfield County, our state and our nation, we were all thrust into crisis mode and had to pivot to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and the urgent needs that surfaced.
As emphasized in the 2019 Fairfield County Community Wellbeing Index, far too many Connecticut residents were already facing unacceptable and unequitable gaps in income, employment, housing, education and healthcare based on race, ethnicity and gender. Residents of our region have not and are not experiencing the pandemic equally. COVID-19 has magnif ....

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