COVID-19 Resources
COVID-19 Resources
Give Back
Your generous donation can help a foster child receive a laptop or tablet so they may participate in remote learning during COVID-19. Read Sana’s (Chief Girlfriend) story of overcoming her time in fostercare.
Amazon Smile
Support a charitable organization by starting your shopping at smile.amazon.com. Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the charitable organization of your choice. AmazonSmile is the same Amazon you know. Same products, same prices, same service.
Employee Resources
Rocket Lawyer
COVID-19 will hurt the finances of millions of hard working people. Empower your employees’ financial well-being with a FREE benefit they can actually use: Estate Planning • Landlord/Tenant Issues • Getting Married • Starting a Family
Buying a Home • Immigration • Financial Issues
Jessica Young at LinkedIn is giving away 6-month LinkedIn Premium subscriptions to anyone facing employment uncertainty or loss due to #COVID19. Connect with her to gain access to business and job insights, unlimited LinkedIn Learning training courses, resume builder, and more!
Calm
Enjoy this curation of content hand-picked to support your mental and emotional wellness through this uncertain time.
LinkedIn Learning
Employees who are now working from home can access 16 of LinkedIn’s online learning courses. The courses cover everything from tips for leading video conferences to advice on how to best work from home.
Comcast - Internet Service
Comcast has made its Xfinity Wifi hotspots accessible for free to everyone, including non-Xfinity Internet customers. You can view a map of all Xfinity hotspots here. Once you’re in a hotspot’s vicinity, find and select the “xfinitywifi” network name in the list of available hotspots.
Comcast - Cell Service
Contact Your Cell Phone Provider
Along with a host of other data providers, Comcast is giving all its customers unlimited data for the next 60 days.
Sprint - Cell Service
Sprint has upgraded customers with existing data plans to unlimited data for 60 days. Customers will also have access to an additional 20GB of mobile hotspot data for free.
Sprint - Waive Toll Charges
Sprint has waived per-minute toll charges on long-distance calls to countries the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have designated as Level 3 because of the spread of the coronavirus.
T-Mobile
T-Mobile has upgraded customers to free unlimited smartphone data for the next 60 days if they already have a phone plan that includes data,
HR Resources
24/7 HR Support Center
HR Girlfriends has reduced its annual membership to $19, a savings of $80 for the first year. This will provide unlimted acces to 24/7 clooud-based HR resources to include, COVID-19 guides, EEOC pandemic guidance, templates, and so much more.
CyberSAFE at Work (from home)
With organizations being put under a microscope when it comes to their cybersecurity practices, the costs are too high to overlook the importance of effectively equipping employees with the skills they need to combat the growing threat of cybercrime. Far too often, people end up being the weak point in an organization’s overall cybersecurity plan. Protect your people and your organization.
BLOG - HR Girlfriends
HR Girlfriends is committed to bringing you up to date information relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic, to include federal and state legal updates.
Rocket Lawyer
Empower your employees to weather this unprecented storm. Rocket Lawyer provides an employee benefit that is FREE; Access to more than 1K self-service legal documents & Unlimited attorney consultations: Estate Planning, Landlord/Tenant Issues, Financial Issues, and more.
HR Consulting - UK
Mandi Crusco has over 18 years experience as a Sr. level HR professional in the UK. She has offered to provide FREE HR consulting to any small business in need.
LinkedIn Learning
Employees who are now working from home can access 16 of LinkedIn’s online learning courses. The courses cover everything from tips for leading video conferences to advice on how to best work from home.
Skill Survey
Complimentary use of Skill Survey’s reference check and our sourcing solutions, used by 25k+ recruiters. Use it on as many candidates as you need to for the next 60 days. There is absolutely no commitment required for this period. Access more than 610 job surveys that are role specific. Reach an average of four references via email or text and get feedback in just over a day.
Contact: Jeff Chapman, [email protected] – (720) 839 – 0230
Return to Work Considerations
This is a crowd sourced list of things to be considered as employees begin to return to work. This is not legal advice.
Professional Resources
BLOG - HR Girlfriends
HR Girlfriends is committed to bringing you up to date information relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic, to include federal and state legal updates.
CyberSAFE at Home
Now that we have all turned our homes, kitchens and living rooms into offices our organizations are more at risk for scams. Far too often, people end up being the weak point in an organization’s overall cybersecurity plan. Protect your people and your organization.
Jessica Young at LinkedIn is giving away 6-month LinkedIn Premium subscriptions to anyone facing employment uncertainty or loss due to #COVID19. Connect with her to gain access to buisness and job insights, unlimited LinkedIn Learning training courses, resume builder, and more!
General Assembly
On March 26, General Assembly is offering a free Intro to Coding class. The livestream will focus on HTML and CSS. Sign up here.
Real-time online problem & outage monitoring
Working from home with no on-site IT department? We tell you when your favorite online services are down or having problems.
Personal Resources
Rocket Lawyer
Having Landlord/Tenant Issues? Do you or a family member need to write a will? These are uncertains times and Rocket Lawyer offers affordable legal services. Try it FREE for 7 days.
CyberSAFE at Home
Now that we have all turned our homes, kitchens and living rooms into offices our organizations are more at risk for scams. Far too often, people end up being the weak point in an organization’s overall cybersecurity plan. Protect your people and your organization.
Rakuten
Start earning cash back on all of your online purchases. Be sure to install the Chrome extension so you’ll never have to guess which sites are offering cash back or how much.
Nextdoor
Nextdoor is where communities are coming together to share COVID-19 info and resoucres right in their own neighborhoods. Where neighbors exchange recommendations for babysitters, plans for local events, and tips about what to order at that new cafe down the street. Where local agencies connect with neighbors in need.
Audible
Audible is offering a 30-day FREE trial to include your choice of 1 audiobook + 2 Audible Originals and exclusive audio-guided wellness programs.
Calm
Enjoy this curation of content hand-picked to support your mental and emotional wellness through this uncertain time.
barre3
This workout class has a 15-day free trial that non-members can redeem here the code BARRE3HOMEBODY.
Planet Fitness
Planet Fitness has started streaming free roughly 20-minute workouts for people who are stuck in their homes but still want to get active. The daily Facebook Live events start at 7 p.m. ET on Planet Fitness’ Facebook page.
Sky Ting
New York City-based yoga studio Sky Ting is offering a week of free access to its video platform, Sky Ting TV. 7 Day Free Trial.
CorePower Yoga
CorePower Yoga is offering free online classes on its CorePower Yoga On Demand site.
FitOn
Quick & Effective workouts from celebrity trainers you can do anywhere. Always FREE. Always On.
UHaul
U-Haul is offering 30 days of free self-storage to anyone with a college ID to aid college students who were forced to move out of dorms and head back to their hometown to start online classes. The offer is based on availability at your local U-Haul owned and operated facility.
Comcast - Internet Service
Comcast has made its Xfinity Wifi hotspots accessible for free to everyone, including non-Xfinity Internet customers. You can view a map of all Xfinity hotspots here. Once you’re in a hotspot’s vicinity, find and select the “xfinitywifi” network name in the list of available hotspots.
Comcast - Cell Service
Contact Your Cell Phone Provider
Along with a host of other data providers, Comcast is giving all its customers unlimited data for the next 60 days.
Comcast - Internet Service for Low Income Families
Comcast’s Internet Essentials program, which services low-income families, new customers will have access to the program for free for 60 days. The program normally costs $9.95 per month. Comcast has also permanently increased the base Internet speed for all existing and new Internet Essential customers. Find out more about eligibility and applying for the service here.
Sprint - Cell Service
Sprint has upgraded customers with existing data plans to unlimited data for 60 days. Customers will also have access to an additional 20GB of mobile hotspot data for free.
Sprint - Waive Toll Charges
Sprint has waived per-minute toll charges on long-distance calls to countries the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have designated as Level 3 because of the spread of the coronavirus.
T-Mobile
T-Mobile has upgraded customers to free unlimited smartphone data for the next 60 days if they already have a phone plan that includes data,
Amazon Kindle
Amazon’s Kindle is offering two free months to its unlimited e-book service to new users.
Job Seeker Tools
Thrive is offering their bilingual tools to help job seekers find their next opportunity, all for FREE. These include: a resume builder, networking tools, and more.
Real-time online problem & outage monitoring
Working from home with no on-site IT department? We tell you when your favorite online services are down or having problems
Learning Resources - Children
Khan Academy
Khan Acamdey offers free resources to keep everyone learning with tools for students, teachers, and parents.
Audible - Kids/Tweens/Teens
Audible has offered a selection of free audiobooks as long as schools are closed. No log-ins, credit card or passwords needed.
Comcast - Internet Service for Low Income Families
Comcast’s Internet Essentials program, which services low-income families, new customers will have access to the program for free for 60 days. The program normally costs $9.95 per month. Comcast has also permanently increased the base Internet speed for all existing and new Internet Essential customers. Find out more about eligibility and applying for the service here.
Scholastic
Access a free digital learning hub for grades pre-K to 9th grade, covering topics like English, language arts, STEM, science, social studies, and social-emotional learning.
Learning Resources - Adults
Audible
Audible is offering a 30-day FREE trial to include your choice of 1 audiobook + 2 Audible Originals and exclusive audio-guided wellness programs.
Class Central
Take free online courses from Ivy League universities like Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale on classcentral.com
General Assembly
On March 26, General Assembly is offering a free Intro to Coding class. The livestream will focus on HTML and CSS. Sign up here.
Amazon Kindle
Amazon’s Kindle is offering two free months to its unlimited e-book service to new users.
Amazon Smile
Support a charitable organization by starting your shopping at smile.amazon.com. Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the charitable organization of your choice. AmazonSmile is the same Amazon you know. Same products, same prices, same service.
Social Resources
Guggenheim Museum
The Guggenheim Museum just released more than 200 books about modern art. You can read them online or download them in PDF or ePub formats, free of charge at the Internet Archive.
Buckingham Palace
Take a virtual tour of Buckingham Palace and the Royal Family’s vast art collection
Entrepreneur/Business
24/7 HR Support Center
HR Girlfriends has reduced its annual membership to $19, a savings of $80 for the first year. This will provide unlimted acces to 24/7 clooud-based HR resources to include, COVID-19 guides, EEOC pandemic guidance, templates, and so much more.
CyberSAFE at Work (from home)
With organizations being put under a microscope when it comes to their cybersecurity practices, the costs are too high to overlook the importance of effectively equipping employees with the skills they need to combat the growing threat of cybercrime. Far too often, people end up being the weak point in an organization’s overall cybersecurity plan. Protect your people and your organization.
Rakuten
Start earning cash back on all of your online purchases. Be sure to install the Chrome extension so you’ll never have to guess which sites are offering cash back or how much.
SBA Disaster Fund
SBA’s Economic Injury Disaster Loans offer up to $2 million in assistance per small business and can provide vital economic support to those businesses to help overcome temporary loss of revenue experienced.
Return to Work Considerations
This is a crowd sourced list of things to be considered as employees begin to return to work. This is not legal advice.