Help UAB Fight Coronavirus Pandemic With Support For Giving Tuesday Now On May 5

From the University of Alabama at Birmingham:

April 30, 2020

By Shannon Thomason

The University of Alabama at Birmingham needs your help on Tuesday, May 5, for Giving Tuesday Now, an emergency response to the unprecedented need caused by COVID-19.

Donations for the global day of giving and unity may be made on the Giving Tuesday Now website, uab.edu/givingtuesdaynow. UAB asks donors to support any of its funds:

• UAB Coronavirus Response Support Fund: For COVID-19 research and treatment development; patient and clinical care support; resources, including supplies, equipment and technology; training and education for frontline responders; and other needs associated with relief, response and treatment.
• UAB Student COVID-19 Emergency Fund: Provides emergency aid to students in all colleges and schools facing lost wages, relocation expenses, decrease in financial support from parents and more.
• Benevolent Fund: Assists UAB faculty and staff in need, including those affected by the pandemic, through Blazer Kitchen and emergency aid.
• UAB Medicine COVID-19 Materials Fund: Supports the purchase of personal protection equipment for frontline workers.
• COVID-19 Symptom Tracker: Supports the growth and expansion of disease data collection and management across the Southeast through the COVID-19 Symptom Tracker website, as well as future efforts to connect with ground-based collection in affected communities.

  Learn more about UAB’s fight against COVID-19 here.

For more information on UAB’s efforts to fight COVID-19, visit uab.edu/coronavirus.

This press release was produced by the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The views expressed here are the author’s own.