Subject: Surprising Pandemic News; Legislation to Speed Up Giving; Crypto Giving Made Easy
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Good morning.
This week brings very good news about the pandemic’s impact: The collapse of tens of thousands of nonprofits that experts forecast didn’t materialize, all signs suggest. It turns out that the mix of federal aid and strong foundation spending helped organizations avert the worst-case scenario.
Interviews the
Chronicle conducted with nonprofit leaders nationwide found that many organizations faced financial squeezes that forced them to cut back services, lay off workers, and make other changes that harmed their ability to do their work, but very few nonprofits appear to have completely shut down.
The United Center is closing the walk-up portion of its COVID vaccinations Monday, officials say.
The mass vaccination site at the United Center opened on March 9 under a federal pilot program and run by a coalition of federal, state and local officials.
The site has operated seven days a week and was originally slated to be open for eight weeks with the ability to administer 6,000 shots per day at full capacity, officials said. Those doses have been provided directly from the federal government and not diverted from the supply sent to Chicago or Illinois.
Earlier this month, the site shifted from administering the two-dose vaccines for walk-ins to the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Plus, a food bank ditches financial measures to evaluate fundraisers, and girls and young women design and conduct a survey of their peers to learn what they need most