The Chicago Community Trust and United Way of Metro Chicago announced they are establishing the Chicago Community COVID-19 Response Fund. In partnership with the City of Chicago, Chicago philanthropy, business leaders, and generous donors, the fund will rapidly deploy resources to local nonprofit organizations serving our most vulnerable residents in the Chicago region as a result of the public health, social and economic consequences of COVID-19.

The Chicago Community COVID-19 Response Fund will provide flexible resources to local nonprofit organizations across metropolitan Chicago to supply essential resources to the individuals and households who are most impacted by the epidemic. Those resources currently include access to emergency food and basic supplies, rent and mortgage assistance and utility assistance.  The fund will be designed to be flexible so it can deploy resources to address possible additional areas of community need as they develop. Contributions to the Chicago Community COVID-19 Response Fund can be made by visiting, www.chicagocovid19responsefund.org.