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Cobb Community Foundation starts coronavirus fund

March 12, 2020 Kennesaw: A nurse wearing a mask and gloves for protection from the coronavirus walks past ambulances as she leaves Wellstar Kennestone on the afternoon that Georgia authorities confirmed the state’s first coronavirus related death, a 67-year-old male hospitalized here on Thursday, March 12, 2020, in Kennesaw. Curtis Compton ccompton@ajc.com
March 12, 2020 Kennesaw: A nurse wearing a mask and gloves for protection from the coronavirus walks past ambulances as she leaves Wellstar Kennestone on the afternoon that Georgia authorities confirmed the state’s first coronavirus related death, a 67-year-old male hospitalized here on Thursday, March 12, 2020, in Kennesaw. Curtis Compton ccompton@ajc.com
By Meris Lutz
March 17, 2020

The Cobb Community Foundation announced Tuesday it would establish a special fund to provide resources to local non-profits working to alleviate the impact of the new coronavirus.

The group, which was founded by Cobb business leaders in nineties and was granted non-profit status in 2007, distributes hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to charities working in the county.

According to the foundation’s President and CEO, Shari Martin, its previous focus on fundraising for a different grant will take a back seat to the current crisis.

“We are all in unchartered territory,” she said in a statement. “We don’t know what’s ahead, but we know that as a community foundation, it’s our role to build and deploy resources to help our community get through this relatively unscathed, or at least as unscathed as possible.”

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Meris Lutz is a contributing writer covering climate, the environment and the economy. She is particularly interested in stories that explore the intersections between climate change and labor, markets, health, biodiversity, government transparency and public access to natural resources.

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