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Asian Americans donate PPEs, soup kitchen seeks support, university collects religious responses

Miami University’s comparative religion department is compiling and analyzing the breadth and diversity of religious responses to the novel coronavirus pandemic. “Preaching Goes Viral” is a database of sermons, policy statements, prayers, religious guidance and commentary related to the global health crisis. It will be made accessible to students, the media, scholars, religious groups and […]

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Jewish Nonprofits Are Struggling. How Should Donors Try To Rescue Them?

NEW YORK (JTA) — In the weeks after it became clear that the coronavirus pandemic would spark a lasting economic crisis, the Jewish world’s leading funder group put together a memo with some back-of-the-envelope projections for how much Jewish nonprofits stood to lose. The tally: at least $650 million, according to the internal document from […]

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