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Corporate Goodwill Efforts During COVID-19 Outbreak

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Newsweek article: “In Good Company: 50 U.S. Businesses That Stood Out During the Pandemic”
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The following is a running tally of companies that are making extended efforts during the COVID-19 / novel coronavirus outbreak. Editing is now closed.
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Also see the Flipboard Storyboard with curated stories from this list.
Putting this on its own line, because reading is hard:
Just Capital is tracking How America’s Largest Employers Are Treating Stakeholders Amid the Coronavirus Crisis
Note: This is only corporate activity; we are explicitly omitting examples of sick pay - in part because they’re widespread and the bill that Congress has passed includes sick pay. Neither is this a place to criticize lack of action from companies.
Categories
- 🌡️ Paying hourly workers even if out because of illness
- 💰 Closing but still paying workers
- 🏆 Sports teams/venues closed but paying workers
- 💁🏻 Extending services
- 💸 Fee suspension
- 📺 Free /early release content 📰
- 🧑🏽🤝🧑🏻 Public health and community initiatives
🌡️ Paying hourly workers even if out because of illness
- Amazon
- Apple
- Cisco
- Darden Restaurants
- Facebook
- Google
- L.L. Bean
- Microsoft
- Panda Restaurant Group (Panda Express) cares for associates with health & safety pay, change of operations pay, store closure pay, and appreciation pay benefit as well as expanded health insurance benefits
- PepsiCo To Provide Enhanced Benefits To All U.S. Employees And Additional Compensation To U.S. Frontline During Unprecedented Health Pandemic
- Salesforce & Time
- Starbucks commits to paying workers for 30 days, even if they don’t go to work
- Spin
- Twitter
- Intuit paying hourly workers while all employees are asked to work from home
- Kroger announced new paid leave policy, bonuses to hourly associates, & hiring ~10,000 roles
- Amazon is opening 100,000 new roles, raising wages, and welcoming back furloughed employees
- Uber / Lyft / Grubhub / Doordash have developed policies for supporting drivers
- Robin Hood NYC and Tipping Point are partnering with Yashar Ali to distribute funds to provide direct cash grants to hourly workers (including tipped workers) in need, via GoFundMe.
- Target announced pay raises, bonuses and new paid leave policy amid coronavirus
- TD Bank is providing full-time and part-time employees who are unable to work from home with an additional $1,000 award
- Ascension Health in St. Louis is protecting the pay of employees unable to work because of the coronavirus
- Walmart introduced new paid leave and attendance policy, paid special bonuses to hourly associates, paying Q1 bonus early, hiring 150,00 for stores and distribution centers
- Mobility company Spin is paying hourly workers while out for Covid-19, plus all employees in paused markets and some employees in active markets will receive 12 weeks’ of paid leave.
💰 Closing but still paying workers
- Allbirds
- Apple Stores
- Bose
- British Airways in
- Cost Plus World Market
- Ilitch Companies set up a $1 million fund to pay workers at Comerica Park, Little Caesars Arena, and the Fox Theater for the next month
- Loft, Loft Outlets
- Madewell
- MGM Resorts will pay workers for 2 weeks and extend health benefits to June 30
- NIKE (Paying all retail employees in NA)
- All 11 Panda Express locations temporarily close and continue paying associates for up to 6 weeks
- Pottery Barn
- Patagonia
- Vail Resorts
- Warby Parker
- Under Armour
- Urban Outfitters, Free People, Anthropologie
- A number of banks announced they would not be laying off employees due to the COVID-19 crisis: TD Bank, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Deutsche Bank and HSBC.
Restaurants helping others in restaurant business: https://flipboard.com/@scottmonty/restaurant-industry-facing-dramatic-decline-s04bmvub3h0du9l5
🏆 Sports teams/venues closing but paying workers
💁🏻 Extending services
- Comcast / T-Mobile upgrade everyone to unlimited data for 60 days and Comcast opens Wi-Fi hotspots to all and T-Mobile boosts mobile-hotspot d un ata
- Verizon offers free international Verizon response to the coronavirus COVID19nal calling to countries identified by the CDC as level 3 impacted by the coronavirus
- Verizon automatically gives 15GB of high speed data for wireless consumer and small business customers from March 25 through April 30, 2020
- Verizon offers unlimited domestic calling to customers on limited-minute plans
- Zoom is giving K-12 schools free video conferencing
- Loom is expanding their free plan, discounting their paid plan - helping remote workers share video screencasts
- Cisco is making Webex free for schools & higher ed and providing guides for teachers, parents, and students
- Adobe is making at-home Creative Cloud service free for students and educators
- Charter Communications is offering free access to Spectrum broadband and Wi-Fi for 60 days to households with K-12 students
- Qualtrics will make Remote Work Pulse will be free and publicly available for all organizations
- Headspace is providing free subscriptions to healthcare professionals working in public health settings in the US through 2020 to address rising levels of stress and burnout.
- Google is offering free access to our advanced Hangouts Meet video-conferencing capabilities through July 1, 2020 to all G Suite customers globally
- U-Haul is giving 30 days of free-self storage to college students who are impacted by sudden schedule changes at their schools
- Peloton is offering new users to try the app free for the next 90 days for yoga, meditation, strength, stretching, and bodyweight training ahttps://chamaileon.io/email-templates/t home
- ECA Partners Offers At Cost Recruiting Support to Essential Business That Need to Hire Covid 19 Front Line Workers
- Code Academy is offering 10,000 scholarships to Codec Academy Pro for free to students and teachers across the world
- Tableau has developed a free data resource hub to help organizations see and understand coronavirus data in near real-time, using case data compiled by Johns Hopkins University as well as data from the WHO and the CDC
- Coursera is offering free online classes to universities through August
- Early Light Media is offering free leadership message videos for the next two weeks (starting 3/16) to organizations that have critical COVID-19 messaging to get to their employees, the public, or service providers
- Open Studio is offering pay what you can for online jazz music lessons.
- Epic is offering free worldwide Remote Student Access to their library of e-books through the end of the school year (June 30th, 2020), by teacher invitation — no credit card required
- Core Power Yoga is offering everyone a selection of free online classes
- Zencastr is lifting hourly limits on recording for hobbyists until July 1, 2020
- Teachable is offering their platform free of charge to governmental & healthcare organizations, as well as educational institutions that are navigating remote ongoing education (fill out form to qualify)
- CXL is offering free CXL Minidegree programs to people whose livelihoods are affected by COVID-19
- Gin production has stopped at Listoke Distillery and is being repurposed to make 62% proof hand sanitiser. They’re selling at cost and also supplying charities and hospitals.
- Dropbox is offering free Dropbox Business subscriptions for a three-month period to nonprofits and NGOs that are focused on fighting COVID-19
- Scholastic has launched a website “Learn at Home” that has free daily courses for students from Pre-kindergarten to grades 6 and higher
- Vidyard introduced secure video messaging to enhance internal communications during Coronavirus pandemic, now available to all businesses for free through June 30.
- Zapier is providing free starter accounts for efforts focused on fighting Covid-19.
- Hootsuite is giving small businesses and nonprofits free access to its professional social media management tool.
- Burger King is giving away two free kids meals with any purchase made via the Burger King app
- Knotch is providing its content measurement services to all COVID-19 communications across non-profit, not-for-profit and for-profit enterprises — free of charge
- IBM is extending all of its online courses to everyone for free
- Chamaileon gives Free email design editor accounts to organizations in need
- Hertz offers free rental cars to health care workers in New York City
- JetBlue is donating free flights for incoming medical volunteers heading to New York State
- Starbucks is offering free coffee to front-line responders
- Google is offering $340 million in free ads for small businesses as part of coronavirus help package
- LEGO makes donations and innovates to care for children’s wellbeing and development
- Google will offer 100,000 free Wi-Fi hotspots and will donate 4,000 Chromebooks to students across the state of California
- Nike making Nike Training Club Premium available for free so people stay active at home
- Facebook is offering $100M grants for small businesses in 30 countries
- Medallia is offering Crowdicity for free for 6 months for all nonprofits -- to help them crowdsource immediate needs and actionable ideas from their community on topics such as how to prepare the most vulnerable for disasters, engage volunteers virtually, and support employees remotely.
- Helvetia and Swiss Life grant rent reduction.
- Shopify offering free 90 day trial
- Many people, who work for Logitech, have donated their own video collaboration equipment to neighbors who need to teach classes or run their businesses remotely.
- Bluestone offers free access to its PIM platform to nonprofits wishing to become active in eCommerce.
💸 Fee suspension
- Doordash has a similar programs in placed
- Postmates has created a pilot program for small businesses in the Bay Area to establish an account, and start delivering without any additional cost
- Spaceships Rentals NZ customers can keep their booking as credit to be used later in New Zealand, Australia or the UK.
- ComEd, part of the Exelon family and the largest electric utility in Illinois, is suspending service disconnects, providing resources and payment accommodations as an effort to support vulnerable customers and communities during this time.
- Arkansas property owner tells restaurants to pay employees instead of rent
- BANCO DE CHILE SUSPENDERÁ EL COBRO DE CRÉDITOS HIPOTECARIOS Y DE CONSUMO POR EL CORONAVIRUS
- Comcast, PG&E, Verizon and other internet, utility and phone providers are waiving late billing fees and promising not to cut service to those unable to pay
- Hyundai relaunched its Assurance Job Loss Protection--covering 6 months of payments for people who purchase or lease a Hyundai between March 14 and April 30, 2020 if they lose their job due to COVID-19 this year.
- Dan Gilbert’s Bedrock to offer rent forgiveness for restaurants, small businesses in the wake of COVID-19
- Diligent is offering free access to their board management solutions: Community by Diligent for K-12 schools, and BoardEffect for local nonprofit organizations.
- CREOpoint granted AI patents about “Containing the spread of disinformation” now available to license royalty-free use by NGOs, foundations, not-for-profit, and universities.
📺 Free /early release content 📰
- The Washington Post is making all of its coronavirus coverage free, and has a daily newsletter
- The New Yorker has made its coronavirus news coverage and analysis free for all readers
- Disney+ released Frozen 2 on March 15, months ahead of schedule
- Disney’s Onward is now available for digital purchase, 2 weeks after hitting theaters; will come to Disney+ on April 3
- The Dropkick Murphys did a free live stream concert for St. Patrick’s Day
- The Metropolitan Opera is offering free streams from its live HD catalog
- The Seattle Symphony Orchestra announced free video broadcasts and live streams
- The Detroit Symphony Orchestra is giving free access to DSO Replay—their archive of past performances
- Flipboard is curating a magazine of Virtual Tours, Live Streams, and Online Cultural Programs
- Children’s author and illustrator Mo Willems is hosting a weekly Live Doodle every Monday for kids (and everyone!) to watch and draw along
- Universal Pictures is making some of its current film releases available on demand starting this week* (3/16/2020) *for a 48-hour rental period at a suggested retail price of $19.99
- Author Oliver Jeffers is going to read one of his books every weekday and talk about what went into making it.
- CreateLive has made their health and wellness classes free to stream
- Harvard Business Review is making its coronavirus coverage free for all readers.
- The Berlin Philharmonic is opening its Digital Concert Hall for free (and this is Beethoven’s 250th birthday year)
- Sourcebooks is offering FREE eBooks from authors Robert Glazer, Matthew Emerzian, Maura Nevel Thomas, Eric Coryell and Paul Smith until April 7.
- The Georgia Aquarium has set up live cameras of some of their exhibits for people to watch from home.
- Amazon is making dozens of kids shows free
- Hey now! SiriusXM radio and Howard Stern will be free until May 15
- HBO is making almost 500 hours of top programming available to stream for free for a limited time on HBO NOW and HBO GO–without a subscription–starting Friday, April 3. Includes The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Veep, and The Wire.
- Stream 4000+ PBS and local shows on demand for free on pbs.org and the PBS Video app, including MASTERPIECE, Poldark, NOVA, Nature, PBS NewsHour, FRONTLINE, American Masters, Great Performances and more.
- WNET Education has activities, tips on making TV time learning time, PBS LearningMedia resources, and games from Mission US, an interactive way to learn American history, to award-winning PBS KIDS series Cyberchase that covers STEM subjects, and more for families and educators.
- NJTV, in partnership with the NJEA and the New Jersey Department of Education, launched a new series of on-air instruction called NJTV Learning Live, weekdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. beginning April 6 for grades 3-6, taught by NJ public school teachers.
- WLIW21 and WLIW WORLD have newly expanded K-12 At Home Learning resources with new weekday programming schedules to better serve students in the New York metro area who are homebound during the COVID-19 pandemic. These daily, free over-the-air broadcasts focus on all major school subjects.
🧑🏽🤝🧑🏻 Public health and community initiatives
- Panda Express' COVID-19 Community Care Fund donates over $2M of PPE to healthcare workers at hospitals located in COVID-19 hotbeds
- Panda Express and Founders donate $2M to Feeding America to ensure no child and senior go hungry
- Panda Express continues to donate hot meals to local hospitals
- PepsiCo Commits More than $45 Million to Combat the Impacts of COVID-19, Providing Vital Local Humanitarian Support and Distributing More Than 50 Million Nutritious Meals Worldwide
- Kroger updated store hours across the enterprise for increased inventory restocking, sanitation, and elderly/vulnerable shopping hours
- Sabra Dipping Company donates more than 30K single serve Sabra Snackers to NY hospital front line workers, 300K+ food servings to food banks, school systems and shelters in Central, VA
- Toufayan Bakeries Supports Local Communities During Covid-19 Pandemic
- Verizon tripled its monthly data allowance for Verizon Innovative Learning schools and commits $10 million to nonprofits supporting students and first responders
- Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian bought billboards in Times Square to tell people to stay home
- LVMH has instructed its perfume manufacturers to begin producing hand sanitizer for free
- Salesforce will donate $1.5M to the City of San Francisco’s Give2SF fund to support its emergency response to the coronavirus crisis
- Slack has guidelines for remote working
- Twitter created a brand communications guide in times of crisis
- Starbucks is giving all employees, including part-timers, 20 free mental health therapy sessions a year
- An Australian supermarket implemented elderly-only hours to ensure seniors get what they need
- The Gates Foundation, Wellcome and Mastercard committed up to $125 million in seed funding to speed-up the response to the COVID-19 epidemic by identifying, assessing, developing, and scaling-up treatments
- Through Health Cloud, Salesforce is offering free access for qualified emergency response teams, call centers and care management teams for health systems affected by coronavirus
- A summary on Trailhead of tips on how to work from home and maintain personal well-being during this time
- SC Johnson is donating $1 million to CDC’s Foundation Emergency Response Fund
- Sweetgreen is delivering free, fresh meals to hospitals in the cities they serve at zero cost
- Postmates created a fund to provide members of their fleet with a relief credit to be used for health expenses such as co-pays or wellness products
- The British government is speaking to manufacturers such as Ford, Rolls Royce and Unipart about the role they can play in creating more ventilators
- Morning Brew’s guide to living your best quarantined life
- Facebook announced a $100 million program to help small businesses impacted
- SILO, a small distillery in Vermont, is making hand sanitizer by combining ethanol from their distillery with vegetable glycerin and is making it freely available to anyone who stops by
- Partner Engineering and Science, Inc. is donating services to help flatten the curve by offering COVID-19 Training and Preparedness for facility managers and property owners, as well as Pandemic Preparedness and Response Plans
- Dunkin’ Joy in Childhood Foundation Activates $1.25 million in emergency funding to support health and hunger organizations relating to the Coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Chef José Andrés has closed his NYC and DC restaurants, turning them into community kitchens
- ChefSteps has opened every pasta recipe, dish, and sauce on its site, saying “Any dough project, hand project, or mixing project in cooking is therapeutic.”
- Nike’s leaders, the Nike Foundation and Nike are committing more than $15 million to COVID-19 response efforts
- Walmart and the Walmart Foundation have committed $25 million to a global coronavirus response initiative
- Amazon is giving out $5 million to small businesses near its Seattle headquarters in the form of cash grants
- JP Morgan has committed $50 million to funds and community groups that are providing food, support and medical supplies for people hurt by the coronavirus
- Everlywell announced that it will launch a way for consumers to get tested and get diagnosed for COVID-19 from home as of March 23
- Allbirds is giving free shoes to healthcare workers
- Quarantine in Club Mahindra resort: Anand Mahindra offers ventilators, hospitals to fight Coronavirus
- Mira Beauty launched a COVID-19 relief fund for beauty service and retail professionals affected by unemployment in the US. Additionally, Mira launches a social challenge to raise awareness for the fund and showcase how creative and talented the beauty community is.
- CVS Health, Walgreens, Walmart and Target are dedicating parking lots and other temporary areas outside of their drugstores across the country to test for the Coronavirus strain COVID-19.
- Trinity Health forged a deal with Detroit Sewn to produce 50,000 masks
- Beau Ties Ltd. of Vermont says they have 14 seamstresses who are actively looking to assist hospitals in sewing masks
- Jameson® Irish Whiskey is committing to give a 1:1 dollar match for every donation made to the USBG (Bartenders' Guild) Foundation's COVID-19 relief campaign from March 16-31, 2020 up to a maximum of $100,000.
- Cisco is committing $225 million to global COVID-19 response
- Hanes will start making masks for healthcare workers
- Freshly and Nestlé partner to donate $500,000 to Meals on Wheels America, supporting their vital work to help vulnerable seniors amid COVID-19
- Ford is working with 3M, GE and the United Auto Workers union to speed the production of ventilators
- Ford and GE will produce 50,000 ventilators in 100 days (March 30)
- How Ford is MacGyvering F-150 seat ventilation fans to make ventilators
- The UK government is open-sourcing ventilator supply specs for anyone who can manufacture them
- Virtudent Expands Teledentistry Services; Connects Dentists Directly to Individuals Affected by New Coronavirus (COVID-19) Restrictions
- Hockey equipment producer Bauer is shifting production to making medical shields for healthcare workers
- Data companies are coming together to provide maps and dashboards of the spread, from Johns Hopkins University and WHO mapping global cases, to Definitive Healthcare mapping US hospital bed capacity.
- HealthChampion is providing its complete-health-symp by tom-tracking platform for FREE for essential employers.
- LeadMD has started the AZ Local Impact Fund and pledged $50,000 to provide assistance to local valley businesses and their employees struggling to weather the storm of COVID-19.
- Quicken Loans Community Fund and Gilbert Family Foundation Announce $1.2 Million Donation to Address Detroit Coronavirus Impact
- Rocket Mortgage, Quicken Loans and Rock Family of Companies Unleash Full Arsenal of Resources and Announce Public-Private Partnerships to Source, Procure and Manufacture Materials to Fight Coronavirus Pandemic
- Storyboard: Communities Coming Together
- Grundfos 3D develops face shield prototype and then starts developing 5000 face shields per day..
- JOANN Stores are handing out free fabric supplies for anyone making masks at home
- The Four Seasons Hotel in Manhattan will provide free rooms to doctors, nurses and other medical personnel.
- Nestlé joins forces with the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) and Red Crescent Societies to donate food, medical nutrition products and bottled water; will deploy available logistics capacities; will donate 10 million CHF; and will match IFRC donations 1:1.
- Boll and Branch is donating mattresses and pillows to emergency medical operations, and giving 10% off anything you buy on their site and contribute 10% to the cause.
- Barco® Uniforms Launches COVID-19 Scrub Donation Program: 10,000 Scrubs Per Month Made Available To Healthcare Professionals For Duration Of Pandemic Crisis
- Hotel Revival in Baltimore has converted their first-floor bar B-side into a donation and distribution center to support the Baltimore Service Industry Fund and Baltimore Restaurant Relief Group. In partnership with Hungry Harvest, Kiss Tomorrow Hello and The Night Brunch, the group is collecting food, donations and supplies to support the service industry workers in Baltimore.
- IKEA is helping to kit out hospitals in affected areas.
- OYO Hotels & Homes is opening the doors to its hotels and offering free stays to doctors, nurses and other medical first responders who are helping in the fight against Coronavirus
- General Motors has a site with extensive information on its response to the coronavirus, including working with Ventec Life Systems on the manufacturing of ventilators.
- Service Employees International Union United Healthcare Workers West announced Thursday that it located 39 million N95 masks and will make them available to state and local governments and health care systems that are fighting the novel coronavirus outbreak
- Novo Nordisk supports with 2,500 tests per day.
- The Poul Due Jensen Foundation supports work of UNICEF with DKK 5 million.
- Jack Ma and Alibaba Foundations donate medical equipment.
- Chewy Partners with GreaterGood.org to Provide Essentials to Animal Shelters and Rescues
- Croc is giving free shoes to Medical Workers.
- Burberry will supply surgical masks, surgical gowns, and masks; fund research for single-dose vaccine; and donate to charities fighting food poverty across the UK
- Brooks Brothers is repurposing factories to create 150,000 masks a day
- Dyson came up with a ventilator design in 10 days; plans to make 15,000 ventilators
- Google made an $800+ million commitment to support small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), health organizations and governments, and health workers on the frontline of this global pandemic.
- Under Armour is making PPE gear for Maryland hospital workers
- Tesla is using its logistics network to deliver ventilators to hospitals for free
- A college student is making masks for the deaf and hard of hearing and making them available for free
- REMITR is putting together an interactive, searchable directory for small businesses to offer support to other small businesses. (Click to add your services to the directory)
- Airbnb wants to provide free, subsidized lodging for 100,000 personnel fighting COVID-19.
- SheaMoisture Just Announced a $1 Million Fund to Support Women of Color Entrepreneurs Affected by the COVID-19 Crisis
- Coast developed a list of local restaurants where you can order food, cocktails, wine, and beer for delivery or take-out and keep your local favorites in business
- Maersk charters 24 flights to fly protective gear between China and Denmark.
- Disney Parks donated protective garments and medical-related supplies to hospitals and medical professionals
- American Family Insurance group, the American Family Dreams Foundation and the Steve Stricker American Family Insurance Foundation will provide $6.8 million to COVID-19 relief and other non-profits.
- Yamaha Unified Communications is offering significant discounts to all K-12, colleges, universities and educational institutions in US + Canada for audio/video conferencing
- Pepsi Co. announced a more than $45 million global initiative to support communities impacted by the outbreak.
- Nike Corporate COVID-19 donations topping $17M
- Hilton and American Express are teaming up to donate up to 1 million rooms to frontline medical workers
- Square and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has said he is donating $1 billion in Square equity to support relief efforts for the COVID-19
- Nike's innovation, manufacturing and product teams have come together to provide for an urgent need: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in the form of full-face shields and powered, air-purifying respirator (PAPR) lenses to protect against the coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Crocs is donating 10,000 pairs of free shoes to US healthcare workers every day until stocks last
- Woolworth works with Qantas to provide 20,000 jobs for airline employees.
- DBS offered complimentary insurance coverage and home-loan-payment relief for employees in affected industries as well as support packages for small and midsize enterprises.
- Burger King repurposed footage shot before the crisis and turned it into a PSA, urging people to stay at home and embrace their roles as “couch potatriots.”
- Glencore launched community supported fund - allocating USD 25 million to help support relief efforts in communities.
- Swiss Re donates CHF 5 million to support COVID-19 relief efforts.
- Loop helps you feed frontline workers and support local restaurants at LoopWhole.com
- Velocity Global donates one percent of 2020 profits to COVID-19 response
- Arcadia has opened its platform for peer-to-peer power bill assistance for those who can’t make utility payments or are struggling financially, and is matching assistance contributions dollar for dollar.
- Mazda will provide free standard oil changes and enhanced cleaning services for U.S. healthcare workers at participating dealers nationwide -- not limited to Mazda vehicles.
- Distillery switches from spirits to sanitizer
- Publix is buying excess milk and produce from farmers and donating it to food banks
- Bayer donates Bepanthen to help healthcare workers care for their skin.
- CREOpoint granted AI patents about “Containing the spread of disinformation” now available to license royalty-free use by NGOs, foundations, not-for-profit, and universities (meanwhile CREOpoint refocused on the COVID-19 infodemic)
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