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Chico woman leads 13-year-old organization whose system gives young readers a year of improvement in just four months
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Chico woman leads 13-year-old organization whose system gives young readers a year of improvement in just four months
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 area's 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 relief fund and quickly were able to raise money for that while we were simultaneously running our campa...