1. When the going gets tough, the heroes get going

Thursday Boot Company has pivoted from manufacturing fashionable high-quality boots to producing and donating thousands of HK-19 polypropylene masks, while raising over $200,000 for Direct Relief.

Lung cancer diagnostic solutions company, Biodesix, is using their technology and expertise to test for COVID-19 using technology that helps reduce the amount of false negative results.

Hot Bread Kitchen creates economic opportunity for women and entrepreneurs so they can build better lives for themselves and their families. The non-profit distributed emergency stipends to women in the food industry and emergency grants to 50 food businesses.

This Los Angeles-based company is educating the public on the severity of lung damage caused by COVID-19 by creating the first “virtual reality” rendering of virus infected lungs.