Ireland and Covid-19
The Community Foundation for Ireland swiftly identified the immediate need sparked by the Covid-19 Pandemic.
A special Covid-19 Response Fund was already well advanced when the first case of the virus was identified in the country on 29th February 2020. Lifeline services needed urgent help..png)
With our donors we kept Meals On Wheels going, moved vital health and well-being supports online while residents of Direct Provision Centres got refurbished laptops. In responding to a surge of Domestic Violence reports resources allowed extra hours for helplines and increased online support.
Check out our partnership with the community on Achill Island
RTÉ Does Comic Relief
As Covid-19 continued to impact every part of Irish life, The Community Foundation for Ireland joined a unique partnership with entertainers, private donors, television viewers and Government to raise almost 6-Million-Euro during a unique night of Irish broadcasting. RTÉ Does Comic Relief touched the hearts of the nation on 26th June 2020.
Children with disabilities, people living with illness as well as victims of domestic violence and many others have better supports as a result of 672 grants.
Recognising the huge digital divide significant funding was used for hard and soft ware investment for volunteers, community groups and charities. Other projects were supported so their teams and the people they work with could be kept safe.
Our donors together with match funding from Government are keeping aftercare supports for survivors of stroke going, allowing for a whole range of art and therapeutic services to be brought to vulnerable people and their carers online and ensuring that people are not be left isolated and forgotten during this time of national emergency.
How You Can Help
Covid-19 related grants accounted for €9m of the €15m we provided to communites in 2020. However we are not through this the Pandemic will cast a long shadow. Once again the most vulnerable will be hit hardest. Philanthropy will have a big role to encourage communities to think creatively, think big and to think long-term.
Contact Jackie Harrison, Our Director of Philanthropy to find out how you can help: JHarrison@foundation.ie or Click Here to Find Out More