Could delta variant lead to another pause of planned events?
Leaders of nonprofits like Children’s Healing Institute hope not
By: Miranda Christian WPTV
Posted at 8:36 AM, Aug 05, 2021
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — As the coronavirus pandemic put the brakes on many nonprofit donations and fundraisers for more than a year, the leader of one organization is concerned that the delta variant could pause upcoming planned events.
Sandy Munoz is chief executive officer of the Children’s Healing Institute, a Palm Beach County nonprofit that annually helps hundreds of families who have children removed from their homes and works with families of premature babies.
“Without them, I don’t think I would have emotionally made it,” Nicholle Chadwick, whose daughter was born at 27 weeks, told WPTV.
But then came March 2020, and everything stopped.
“March came around and boom, we were told that’s it,” Munoz said.
Munoz is hoping the recent increase in COVID-19 cases won’t impact her efforts to fundraise again.
“Just those little steps that, OK, we’re moving forward, that hopefully this whole delta thing won’t put the kibosh on it again,” Munoz said.
Chadwick is also hopeful that the nonprofit can get back to recouping the money it lost during the pandemic.
“There’s nowhere to go for that support, for that guidance (without the Children’s Healing Institute),” Chadwick said.
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