{"id":7140,"date":"2021-03-29T06:44:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T11:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/?p=7140"},"modified":"2021-03-29T06:44:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T11:44:37","slug":"ibio-partners-with-fathers-who-care-and-the-westside-community-stakeholders-to-distribute-7500-masks-to-chicagos-homeless-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/ibio-partners-with-fathers-who-care-and-the-westside-community-stakeholders-to-distribute-7500-masks-to-chicagos-homeless-population\/","title":{"rendered":"iBIO Partners with Fathers Who Care and the Westside Community Stakeholders to Distribute 7,500 Masks to Chicago\u2019s Homeless Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7141\" src=\"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/B8DB4131-69CA-43B3-8A84-A61E940486DD-300x168.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>iBIO is proud to support the March 28th March Miracles organized by the Fathers Who Care and the Westside Community Stakeholders with a donation of 7,500 masks from iBIO\u2019s PPE Response Fund to support the homeless and less fortunate population on Chicago\u2019s west side. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The donation of the masks is part of iBIO\u2019s Transform Illinois Initiative leveraging our PPE Fund and community resources to build a more inclusive and resilient life sciences community in Illinois. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cBlack communities have lacked resources throughout this pandemic, so I am glad I could be the bridge in connecting iBIO with our Westside Community Stakeholders to have a successful event and continue to prevent the spread of this deadly virus,\u201d Senate Majority Leader Kimberly A. Lightford said. \u201ciBIO\u2019s donation of 7,500 masks was more than generous, and I am thankful to iBIO for helping protect our community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">About Fathers Who Care<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For more than 20 years,\u00a0Fathers Who Care has devoted its energy to passionately advocating for the hungry, needy and politically under-represented members of our global family. Find out how you can contribute to the future of someone in need through donations of money and\/or time. <a href=\"https:\/\/fatherswhocare.org\/\">https:\/\/fatherswhocare.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">About the iBIO PPE Response Fund<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The iBIO PPE Response Fund provides an equitable distribution of PPE and medical supplies in Illinois in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Seed funding for iBIO\u2019s PPE Fund was provided by Horizon Therapeutics and supporting grants from Astellas, The Lundbeck US Charitable Fund, and the Baxter International Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iBIO is proud to support the March 28th March Miracles organized by the Fathers Who Care and the Westside Community Stakeholders with a donation of 7,500 masks from iBIO\u2019s PPE Response Fund to support the homeless and less fortunate population on Chicago\u2019s west side. The donation of the masks is part of iBIO\u2019s Transform Illinois [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ibio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}