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Rare disease foundation helps families during COVID-19

The International Rett Syndrome Foundation supports families of children with this rare neurological disorder. The coronavirus pandemic has had a profound impact on this vulnerable population.


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DHL Express will add 400 new jobs in the United States

About 150 of those jobs will be at the company’s hub at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.

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Longtime family-owned company moves its headquarters to Northern Kentucky

Covington officials expect its tax incentive proposal to have a big payback. 

Northern Kentucky Buzz Faith Community Pharmacy was one of the recipients of the Covid-19 relief fund.

More than $500,000 distributed to nonprofits from the Horizon NKY Coronavirus Relief Fund

The fund has raised more than $2 million to date through gifts and partnerships of all sizes.

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& Co. [VIDEO] featuring Mike Lydon re: public places, streets and COVID-19

Yard & Company's video podcast series focuses on COVID-19 and the impact on cities. Episode three features Brooklyn-based Mike Lydon from Street Plans. Lydon is a key leader of the Tactical Urbanism movement globally.

Feature Story A young Kareem Simpson at his mother's graduation from NKU's nursing school in 1984.

Growing up black in the inner city taught me that police violence is a problem for all of us

The sad truth is, the African American community has long pointed out the presence of police brutality and the fact that wide, sweeping reform is needed.

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The right side of history: How white allies can support people of color

George Floyd’s death has caused civil unrest throughout the country. Here’s how one local woman is activating change.


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Housing Our Future: A new strategy to expand and protect affordable housing

The plan recommends 34 actions to produce and preserve affordable housing, protect the most vulnerable residents, and change the systems that impact affordability.

 


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The COVID-19 Regional Response Fund allowed Shared Harvest Foodbank to continue distribution

A $60,000 donation enabled the purchase of boxes, infant formula, lease trucks for food delivery, and supported additional operating expenses that were incurred because of the crisis.


Northern Kentucky Buzz The Gonzalez family of Fort Mitchell lost jobs during the pandemic. They received much-needed rent assistance from the Esperanza Center.

Esperanza Center stepped forward to provide relief to Northern Kentucky's Latino community

The team has been informally operating 24 hours a day to receive calls and connect people with needed resources or answer questions related to the coronavirus pandemic.

Northern Kentucky Buzz Klingenberg's Hardware is a Covington business that has been around for nearly 100 years.

'Real money' is waiting to be invested in Covington's small businesses and workers

Covington has expanded an emergency fund set up to help small businesses pay rent and mortgages during the pandemic so it can help long-established businesses that neither pay rent nor have a mortgage.


Northern Kentucky Buzz Harris Media in Newport recorded the stories of entrepreneurs coping with the pandemic.

'Saving Small': A small business documents the stories of other entrepreneurs during the pandemic

A video project called “Saving Small” is a snapshot in time, a documentary record of small-business owners coping with a problem they had never anticipated.

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OTR’s Chamber of Commerce creates the Small Business Fund to provide recovery support

The goal is to raise $500,000 to provide grants up to $20,000 to help cover reopening costs for small businesses in OTR and in neighboring Pendleton.


Northern Kentucky Buzz A rendering from Hub + Weber architects of a redesigned Latonia Plaza.

New tech-focused owners of Latonia Plaza are thinking outside the big box

The project has been touted as a catalyst to spur further development in and around the site.

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& Co. [VIDEO] featuring 3CDC's Adam Gelter on public-private partnerships

Yard & Company's video podcast series focused on COVID-19 and the impact on cities hosted Adam Gelter from 3CDC. Over the last decade, 3CDC has invested over $1 billion into downtown Cincinnati and Over-the-Rhine.

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Recovery and resilience: Creating communities and a built environment that can adapt and thrive

From natural disasters to pandemics, architects search for innovative solutions to move forward after a crisis.


Feature Story  ArtWorks Youth Apprentices Oliver Orue and Ella Emanual and multi-media artist and illustrator Lizzy DuQuette. ArtWorks is seeking applicants for its new Jump Start program for up-and-coming artists to receive $5,000 stipends.

Investing in artists creates a vibrant community: ArtWorks launches Jump Start

The program is open to artists who are 26 years or older, who are in the early stages of their creative development and aspire to create a large-scale project.

Northern Kentucky Buzz During the pandemic, the Northern Kentucky Action Commission has turned to delivering hundreds of boxes of food per week.

Responding to their families' number one need: food

The Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission has pivoted in it's approach to serving families, and is one of several organizations and businesses doing what they can since March to help provide meals during the coronavirus shutdown.

Northern Kentucky Buzz Learning Grove's early childhood education programs was awarded a grant to help them survive the pandemic.

Northern Kentucky relief fund has granted more than $400,000 so far to nonprofits

The grants have generated an expanding web of impact by allocating money to nonprofits that are able to leverage their networks with other nonprofits.


Northern Kentucky Buzz St. Elizabeth Healthcare's clinical trial lab will participate in a test of a drug to treat COVID-19.

St. Elizabeth Healthcare will test experimental drug to treat COVID-19 lung disease

If the trial is ultimately successful, the drug could help heal the disease faster, decrease hospital stays and improve outcomes without patients needing to get on ventilators.