Stop the Spread Update, Research to Navigate this Crisis

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Dear Friends of Stop the Spread,

We hope this finds you healthy, safe and well. We are grateful to stand with you in leading meaningful work at this important time.

We remain especially grateful to all of those who’ve supported our work as a volunteer or pro bono partner. Many thanks to our friends at Bain and Company, Cooley, Kirkland & Ellis and White Board Advisors.

Stop the Spread + ImpactAssets in the Press

We appreciate that many of you reached out to congratulate us on our new organizational home at ImpactAssets, a leading impact investing nonprofit. The partnership was recently highlighted by Barron’s in the piece Future Returns: Stop the Spread Joins ImpactAssets to Battle COVID-19.

New and Upcoming Research from Stop the Spread

Recently Published

A Guide to Purchasing Non-Medical Masks – How states, employers and individuals should evaluate non-medical personal protective equipment
Preparing for a ‘Return to Work’ – How employers should assess health risks at their businesses and strategies to deploy to ensure worker safety

Upcoming

The Future State of Testing (in collaboration with Paul Romer and OpenCovidScreen) – Exploring what future testing technologies and funding sources are needed to make return to work a reality
Community-Based Testing – Evaluating how local testing models expand testing access for communities most in need

The Crisis Evolves, So Does Stop the Spread’s Work

Stop the Spread’s focus areas are expanding to include testing, therapeutics, vaccines and food security, with a continued eye to emerging needs related to economic opportunity.

Even as our focus widens, our model remains the same. Stop the Spread is still producing cutting-edge research, matching a growing pipeline of innovations to capital and catalyzing partnerships to help companies do what they do best: innovate and produce at scale to help the public.

Thank You

We are hard at work striving for change, and we are keeping our commitment to racial justice at the forefront of all we do. Thank you for supporting our work.

With gratitude,
Stop the Spread + ImpactAssets Team

About the ImpactAssets Stop the Spread COVID Response Program
The ImpactAssets Stop the Spread COVID Response Program (The Program) is the convergence of an impact investing and private sector response to solving the immediate and evolving needs of COVID-19. The Program harnesses the collective power of ImpactAssets’ leading impact investment and organizational capacity and Stop the Spread’s agile partnership model connecting and catalyzing the private and public sector response to COVID-19. In the immediate term, combined forces are addressing acute frontline healthcare needs by helping companies access knowledge and connections to spur rapid production of PPE. Identified models of critical-needs innovation are connected to investment capital through the ImpactAssets Stop the Spread Fund, a philanthropic impact investing fund addressing frontline COVID healthcare and PPE needs. By bringing together a community of 1,300+ CEO’s and Executives, supporting volunteers, donors, subject-matter experts and an investment pipeline of 400+ potentially promising COVID initiatives, The Program strengthens our COVID Response.

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