Tag: COVID-19

Julia And Hans Rausing Trust Gift £2.5 Million To Help Efforts With COVID-19

Stuart Mitchell

The Julia and Hans Rausing Trust is to donate a combined total of £2.5 million to support efforts dealing with the fallout from COVID 19. The gift has been distributed to selected charities and organisations that are dealing with the immediate healthcare needs across the UK. The donations include £500,000 to CW+, the charity of the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust – money which will go towards their Response Fund, to provide equipment, technology, staff relief and volunteer recruitment for the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, the Trust is pleased to…

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LifeArc launches £10 million research fund to address the challenges of COVID-19

Stuart Mitchell

LifeArc, a UK-based medical research charity, has created a £10 million fund to support research to accelerate the development and testing of therapeutics that can be rapidly deployed to treat the symptoms of COVID-19. The charity is seeking applications from academics or companies that have therapeutics that could be repurposed or repositioned for use in COVID-19 patients. Explaining the urgency of the issue, Melanie Lee, CEO, LifeArc said: “COVID-19 represents a global emergency. The development and manufacture of a vaccine is at least a year away. There is a clear,…

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Vicks® Donates $1 million for COVID-19 Health Care Relief

Stuart Mitchell

In response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Vicks® family of cold and flu brands – NyQuil™, DayQuil™ and VapoRub™ – will donate $1 million to Direct Relief, one of the world’s largest medical relief organizations. These funds will go toward equipping front line health workers with protective gear and providing medicines and equipment needed to treat an anticipated spike in ICU patients. The organization is also working to expand medical assistance to safety-net health facilities where chronic gaps are expected to widen. “Direct Relief is deeply grateful to…

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Where It’s Going: Walmart’s $25 Million COVID-19 Commitment

Stuart Mitchell

Walmart and the Walmart Foundation announced a $25 million commitment on March 17 to support organizations on the frontlines responding to COVID-19. The money will be distributed in a series of grants, each furthering the capacity of organizations to help communities affected by the pandemic. The Walmart Foundation announced a $5 million grant to the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund, a program set up by the United Nations Foundation to support the World Health Organization (WHO) in the global effort to help countries prevent, detect and respond to the novel coronavirus.…

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Kellogg increases global COVID-19 food relief contribution to $4 million

Stuart Mitchell

Kellog’s Company donating food and funds worldwide to support organizations helping to feed people in need More and more people around the world are quarantined and some communities are instituting mandates to “shelter in place.” Many businesses and schools have closed. In the face of this crisis, many of our vulnerable neighbors need food. As always, through our global Kellogg’s® Better Days purpose platform, we help deliver critical nourishment to families when they need it most. For example, in the U.S. alone, our partner, No Kid Hungry, estimates that kids…

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