We are in need of volunteers to help deliver food boxes to seniors. If you are physically able and willing to lift, then we can use you. This task takes approximately 3 hours.

Volunteers will help with a variety of duties toward our community gardens and partner gardens, lot transformations, and food security education efforts in Harrisburg and Elizabethville. These efforts support helping people grow healthy and fresh food. Location: Homegrown Harrisburg Community Gardens, Sunflower Fields Garden and Northern Dauphin Human Services Garden

The Allison Hill Farmers Market brings fresh, affordable food to the community in an effort to improve local food security, enhance individual health and build entrepreneurship among local farmers and residents. This is not only a way for residents to stay healthy, but it also enriches the community life in Allison Hill.

Engineers at Stanford have made open source plans available for a simple, open-source ventilator that uses a proportional solenoid valve. Engineers, makers and DIY enthusiasts can download plans below.

Join the many volunteers, locally and nationwide, who are working to make and distribute masks during this time of need. If making masks to donate to healthcare workers, please ALWAYS check with your local health authorities to determine the need and the required materials. Click here for a pattern may to make your own mask.

At this time, all UPMC locations are able to provide PPE to our employees (and we acquire new supplies daily) in accordance with CDC recommendation, and cloth masks are not needed. Donations will be accepted only from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at: 3001 Seventh St. Harrisburg, PA 17110. If you are interested in donating non-hospital supply related resources, such as restaurant food delivery or gift cards for staff, please submit an inquiry via our website below. Additional details re food donations are also listed off the website.

As word spreads about all the good work happening here, more and more members of our community are reaching out for support. If you can, sign up to volunteer a grocery run, a home cooked meal, or to help manage volunteer requests.

Until further notice, please call us (1-800-771-0059) and schedule an appointment at a blood donation center or a blood drive. To ensure the safety of all donors, we will not be accepting walk ins. We are now only taking donors who have scheduled an appointment. This "appointment only" scheduling system will help us to ensure your safety by meeting all necessary social distancing requirements. These changes are designed to help assure the safety of blood donors and staff.

According to Popular Mechanics writer Courtney Linder as of March 30, 2020 there are only about 160,000 ventilators in U.S. hospitals, and there are already over 144,000 cases of COVID-19. Without a significant change, doctors will soon need to make decisions about who gets a breathing machine and who doesn't. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) expects the U.S. to have a ventilator shortage on the order of 300,000 to 700,000 units. If you are a Maker and interested in exploring creative ways to respond to the COVID-19 epidemic, you might consider building off the designs that MIT has just released here.

The PA Chamber of Business and Industry is putting out an urgent call for all businesses that believe they are able to turn their existing supply chain into the PPE output that the health care industry so desperately needs. Contact PA Chamber Government Affairs Director Kevin Sunday.

Click the donation information link below to view what new or unused (items in sealed boxes are preferred) are accepted at the Hershey Medical Center from Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to noon.

Your gift will help those on the front lines who are serving the most vulnerable in our area.

Partnership Planners LLC is currently in need of volunteers to assist community organizations in sharing the good work they are doing to serve their communities during this COVID-19 pandemic. This involves entering the programs and services that they are delivering into a resource map as well as posting the needs that organizations have as they do this work.