Project Renewal's Response to COVID-19
/Project Renewal is at the front lines of New York City’s response to COVID-19. We have been designated an essential organization by the Governor and Mayor because our health care and housing providers are critical to limiting the spread of this disease and keeping as many people as possible out of our hospitals.
Currently, we are:
Providing health care at our four shelter-based clinics, three mobile medical vans, and through our expanded tele-psychiatry and tele-health systems;
Housing over 2,000 New Yorkers in seven emergency shelters, five transitional homes, and eight permanent supportive buildings; and
Preparing and delivering meals for over 2,500 homeless New Yorkers daily
We are proud of our team and their frontline efforts. They are all heroes, coming to work in spite of the risk of exposure and the challenges to supply necessary protective gear.
We are spending above our budgets right now on personal protective equipment to protect these workers, on tools to transition to remote work for everyone else, and on overtime to cover shifts for our workers who are sick or quarantined. At the same time, we have canceled our annual benefit, which is our main source of private funds for this work.
If there is any way you can support us – we need your help right now. Will you help Project Renewal protect New York City’s most vulnerable during this crisis?
We are grateful for your support.
