30 Resources for the Community During Coronavirus
FROM OUR COMMUNITY
Aunt Bertha ➜
Search for free or reduced cost services like medical care, food, job training, and more.
Kinedu ➜
Kinedu is offering free access to all of its 1,800+ science-based activities for kids 0–4 until April 15. Any family, in any setting, will get the full Kinedu experience to continue supporting their child’s development from home.
Empower Work ➜
Stressed, uncertain, worried about work right now? You’re not alone. Empower Work provides confidential, immediate, and free support. Trained peer counselors are a text away: 510–674–1414 or start a web chat at www.empowerwork.org.
UPchieve ➜
UPchieve is a nonprofit that provides free, online math tutoring to low-income high school students. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, UPchieve is working around the clock to make sure eligible schools can give their students access to UPchieve for free in as little as 24 hours.
Kidappolis from LitLab ➜
Kidappolis is an app that enables parents to use screen time as deep learning time, through interactive, caregiver-led early learning opportunities. They are giving it away for free for six months.
FOR TEAMS
5 Tech Companies Providing Free Remote Working Tools ➜
As many companies ask employees to stay home, these five are making their services available to others.
Know Your Team ➜
If you’re a first-time manager of a remote team, or a manager who’s transitioning to work from home, this free guide — with 60+ pages based on research — is for you.
16 LinkedIn Learning Courses on Remote Working ➜
Discover how to be productive and stay connected when working from home or other remote environments.
Utility, Phone, and Internet Companies Offering Support ➜
A list of companies that are offering free or reduced services as COVID-19 disrupts life for students, workers, families, businesses, and communities.
Therapy Apps Can Help You Manage Your Mental Health ➜
These apps can help you find therapy and other mental health resources — or just help you stay calm during the outbreak.
15 Questions About Remote Work, Answered ➜
Tsedal Neeley, a professor at Harvard Business School, has spent two decades helping companies learn how to manage dispersed teams.
23 Essential Tips for Working Remotely ➜
Follow these tips to keep your whole team’s productivity and morale high.
FOR THE KIDS
#OperationStorytime ➜
Amy Adams, Josh Gad, Jennifer Garner, and more are lending their voices to “Operation Storytime” and “Save With Stories,” initiatives aimed at lifting spirits. Follow the hashtag across social media for more stories.
Scholastic Learn At Home ➜
Every day includes four separate learning experiences, each built around a thrilling, meaningful story or video. Kids can do them on their own, with their families, or with their teachers.
Free Adobe Creative Cloud Access for Students ➜
Adobe is helping students with free, temporary remote access to Creative Cloud apps like Photoshop and InDesign.
Story Time from Space ➜
While in space, astronauts are videotaping themselves reading these books to the children of Earth.
The Learning Network’s Daily Writing Prompts ➜
Each week The Learning Network offers a dozen new ways for students to practice reading, writing and thinking using Times journalism — all free.
LUNCH DOODLES with Mo Willems ➜
Mo Willems invites YOU into his studio every day for his LUNCH DOODLE. Learners worldwide can draw, doodle and explore new ways of writing by visiting Mo’s studio virtually once a day for the next few weeks.
FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY
A Listening Care Package for Uncertain Times ➜
From On Being, a collection of podcasts and poetry for however you’re processing or experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic.
StoryCorps Stories to Lift Your Spirit ➜
When times are tough, sometimes we need an encouraging voice or uplifting story to help get us through. That’s why StoryCorps collected a few of their favorite, uplifting, laugh-out-loud stories to bring you comfort, and to remind you that we’re in this together.
#TogetherAtHome Concerts ➜
Pop artists are streaming performances, attached to the Twitter hashtag #TogetherAtHome. Chris Martin started it all, and John Legend is next. Be sure to follow the hashtag on Twitter for more updates.
Virtual Online Ballet Instruction ➜
Cleveland Inner City Ballet launched their first ever Virtual Online Ballet Instruction Program, free of charge.
12 Famous Museums Offer Virtual Tours ➜
Google Arts & Culture teamed up with over 2500 museums and galleries around the world to bring anyone and everyone virtual tours and online exhibits of some of the most famous museums around the world.
#KitchenQuarantine with Massimo ➜
Massimo Bottura is hosting cooking lessons on Instagram Live.
Monterey Bay Aquarium Live Cams ➜
Be delighted by the antics of sea otters or mellow out to the hypnotic drifting of jellies. With ten live cams to choose from, you can experience the wonder of the ocean no matter where you are.
Google Earth VR ➜
Explore the world from totally new perspectives. Stroll the streets of Tokyo, soar over Yosemite, or teleport across the globe.
Nightly Opera Stream ➜
The Met’s series of free opera streams begins with Bizet’s Carmen, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and starring Elīna Garanča and Robert Alagna.
United We Move ➜
Planet Fitness is offering free online at-home workouts streamed live on their Facebook page daily at 7 p.m. ET and also available to watch later, for those who cannot join in the live stream.
Virtual Dance Parties ➜
Mark Kanemura, a former backup dancer with Lady Gaga and contestant on “So You Think You Can Dance,” is using Instagram to host daily virtual dance sessions.
Netflix Party ➜
Netflix Party is a new way to watch Netflix with your friends online. Netflix Party synchronizes video playback and adds group chat to your favorite Netflix shows.
