The money, donated to the Greater Port Jefferson Chamber of Commerce, will go towards assisting local restaurants that are providing meals to healthcare staff at St. Charles Hospital and Mather Hospital.
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The Knapp Family COVID-19 Health Crisis Challenge started the initiative to raise $1 million for PPE and other needed supplies to keep healthcare workers safe.
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The United Way of Long Island’s new Response Fund for COVID-19 was established to help support vulnerable families who have been financially devastated by the coronavirus outbreak.
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On Wednesday, April 15, the Internal Revenue Service updated its website to give users a way to track the status of their stimulus payment and when it might arrive.
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Despite the temporary closing of its branch lobbies due to the state’s PAUSE directive, a Long Island credit union was still able to continue a tradition of donating to The Interfaith Nutrition Network in Hempstead.
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Blumenfeld Development Group has provided hot meals for healthcare workers at Northwell Health’s Cohen’s Children Medical Center in New Hyde Park.
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Enlisting the help of Late Night Chauffeurs, PinkTie volunteers will come to people’s doorsteps to pick up food donations and then deliver them to a handful of food pantries in Nassau and Suffolk counties.
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Bethpage-based real estate development firm Steel Equities is paying for bottled water supplied by Nestle Waters of Syosset to be delivered to a dozen Nassau hospitals. In addition, Bagels by Bell has delivered over 4,000 assorted bagels to hospital workers throughout the county.
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The personal protective gear, usually used by painters and other construction workers, was donated to the Long Island State Veterans Home and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.
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Suffolk Federal Credit Union has donated $1,000 to the Mercy Center Ministries to support its work to provide shelter and services to single young women and those pregnant or parenting.
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Two Greenport businesses have teamed up to make and donate thousands of protective face shields to hospitals and nursing homes.
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Danny Tran, owner of Islip Cleaners and Tailors, and employee Mareia Vargas, are sewing masks in colors inspired by Easter eggs.
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After 122 students at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University received their diploma two months early, more than half pledged to work on the front line in the fight against COVID-19.
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The effort, from the nonprofit founded by hockey hall of famer Pat LaFontaine, is aimed at keeping hospitalized kids motivated on their path to recovery in this challenging COVID-19 environment.
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The program is designed to keep families who have fallen on hard times, from having to surrender their pets to shelters simply because they are finding it difficult to provide the basics, like pet food.
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The “Stuff a Bus” food drive held by Jefferson’s Ferry Life Plan Community in South Setauket last month yielded 527 pounds of food for Island Harvest.
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The system is designed to decontaminate up to 80,000 used N95 masks per day.
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Henry Schein expects to have several hundred thousand tests available by the end of the month with “significantly increased availability” in April.
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The museum’s educational series on TikTok, hosted by Educator Tom, attracted more than 1.5 million views in a week and features 50 videos on the history of ingenuity and innovation in aerospace.
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Three Long Island animal shelters received a combined $1.2 million from the New York State Companion Animal Capital Fund for various construction and renovation projects.
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Stony Brook’s iCREATE lab has started manufacturing face shields using 3D printers.
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