COVID-19 Crisis Response Fund of the Greater Evansville Region

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In response to the current COVID-19 crisis, Mattingly Charities has joined forces with several other community funders to establish the COVID-19 Crisis Response Fund of the Greater Evansville Region.

This response is designed to serve the community through the relief, recovery, and restoration phases typical of large-scale crises to catalyze hope in a time that perpetuates hopelessness and isolation.

All partners involved agree that the current priority is to ensure responsiveness in the human services sector so that individuals and families in need are supported during this pandemic, especially vulnerable and at-risk populations. Specifically, the Fund will seek to:

Advance tactics that provide gap support (not duplicated by Federal programs) to those who are asset-limited, income-constrained and may be temporarily unemployed (ALICE)

  • Sustain critical operations and levels of service that meet the basic needs of the vulnerable, at-risk, health care workers, and first responders (e.g., food, shelter and childcare)

  • Support temporary staffing or volunteer mobilization efforts in response to loss of the volunteer base critical to essential social services

  • Encourage and champion a movement of neighbors caring for neighbors

The purposes are focused on short term relief. Criteria for the recovery and restoration phases will be determined as needs and opportunities emerge in the coming months.

The founding fund partners invite the broader community to contribute to the COVID-19 Crisis Response Fund as a primary and strategic vehicle designed to meet our community’s needs in the short, mid, and long term (18 month horizon).

Please visit the website below for additional information, to follow the response fund Facebook page, or to donate. Thank you for joining us in supporting the Evansville community!

Mattingly Charities