The cities on the coasts are best resourced to survive this, but kids all over middle American rural communities are going to bed hungry tonight. The Currys are supporting the million kids in Oakland who no longer can rely on school lunch with the funding for the Alameda County Food Bank through the crisis. WeвЂ™re also asking that business leaders, community leaders and celebrities follow Stephen and Ayesha CurryвЂ™s lead and support their local community, and better yet, their hometown.WeвЂ™re launching an effort with a number of universities around the US to offer COVID-19 training programs to help workers understand - what is COVID, how do i protect myself, how do I talk about this with my manager, and other crucial conversations needed to support and protect our workforce on the frontline. WeвЂ™re specifically focused on frontline workers - the healthcare, pharmacy, manufacturing and retail workers who still need to show up for work.WeвЂ™ve also added a number of other recommendations here. This will help them stay afloat for the next 30 days and pay their employees as best they can. WeвЂ™ve launched #payitforward, an initiative to ask large companies with flexible balance sheets to immediately pay their small business vendors, rather than waiting 30вЂ“45 days to pay their accounts payable.WeвЂ™re now asking our grassroots group of 1,500 CEOs and companies to follow on with financial commitments.ДЄdditionally, weвЂ™re asking leaders to support a variety of the following initiatives:

WeвЂ™ll be focused primarily on funding national healthcare needs - tied to ventilators, respirators and supplies for our hospitals around the US. Starting today, we are asking our 1,500 signatories to stand together and make a significant financial commitment to support COVID-19 support and recovery. With your grassroots support, weвЂ™ve now launched the formal StopTheSpread.Org to host our efforts and kick off Part 2 of our movement to lead the private sectorвЂ™s response to COVID-19. UPDATED AS OF WEDNESDAY, March 18, 5 AM ET:ДЇirst - thank you.

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