Thai CDC CARES (COVID Aid, Rapid Response, Relief & Emergency Services)

Thai CDC needs support to keep our staff, our housing residents, and vulnerable members of our community safe, healthy and protected; support in managing existing properties and those in development and managing resident services; overcoming financial distress from the impacts related to COVID-19; technology needs and solutions; sustaining small businesses; tracking government responses and advocating for best policy solutions; accessing food and goods; and finding the best way to get critical information out to the community.  

Donate above to help Thai CDC: 

• address costs associated with providing uninterrupted delivery of essential services 
• carry out services aimed at assisting small businesses, workers, and families at risk of evictions, rent increases, foreclosures, and utility shut offs  
• ensure that affordable housing projects and their residential services and other projects currently under development continue to be managed adequately  
• provide self-care resources for staff, interns, and volunteers  
• expand our farmers’ markets to get resources, food and goods to our community members 
• allow us to advocate for policies that will provide a safety net for the community 
• fund artists to use art to help isolated community members avoid depression or loneliness 
• fund meals, meal deliveries, and the safest ways for meals to be delivered  

Nonprofits are also the first responders and can’t stop doing our “regular” crucial and urgent work. In a crisis like none other before, nonprofits need additional support and resources.  

Since the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, Thai CDC monitored the adverse impact on vulnerable members of our community, namely, the undocumented, Limited English Proficient (LEP), trafficked victims, welfare recipients, the medically indigent, housing insecured, low wage workers, low-income families and seniors, domestic violence victims, and small businesses.  

Thai CDC launched Thai CDC CARES on March 13, 2020 to provide the following: 

• Employment – assist laid off/furloughed workers with unemployment insurance applications 
• Housing – provide rental counseling and assistance with eviction defense and homeownership counseling and foreclosure prevention/intervention 
• Utilities – help reinstate utility shut offs 
• Small Business – provide business counseling, technical assistance, and access to grants and financial aid on behalf of struggling or closed businesses 
• Public Benefits – help eligible individuals and families enroll onto public benefits 
• Seniors – provide supplies and instructions for art projects and recreational activities to help combat loneliness and depression and help them access groceries and meals 
• Health – help individuals and families enroll into affordable health insurance 
• Food – provide access to food pantries and food banks 

 Because we are concerned about the lack of a safety net for individuals and households who cannot access benefits such as the undocumented resulting in severe economic hardships, we are now providing Cash Aid for groceries, rent, utility, medicine, bills, and basic necessities.     

While the current pandemic is a crisis unlike any other as it is unprecedented, more precarious and more perilous, Thai CDC believes that our community can overcome this crisis too and come out of it with even greater resilience if provided sufficient aid and relief. While this pandemic has exposed the lack of a safety net for the most vulnerable, it also presents an opportunity for us to re-imagine building a more equitable, just, and sustainable community. 

Bring much needed relief to a community in distress!