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This is a compilation of offers from current Forbes Councils members seeking to support each other through the COVID-19 crisis. Please note that these offers have not been vetted or endorsed by Forbes Councils. Please use your own judgment and discretion with these offerings. This post will be updated frequently as offers are presented; keep checking in!
Share a resource of your own in the member forum and we'll add it here.
Help Solve the Problem
Artur Kiulian of Colab: CoronaWhy is an international group of 300+ volunteers whose mission is to improve global coordination and analysis of all available data pertinent to the COVID-19 outbreak and ensure all findings reach those who need them. CoronaWhy needs help in these areas.
David Wenger of Bridge Connector: Bridge Connector is offering rapid deployment system integrations for COVID-19 use cases free of charge for six months. Given the dynamic nature of the virus and far-reaching impact, ending further spread will require system-wide collaboration that enables front-line responders to communicate effectively. Bridge Connector is offering free, pre-configured system integrations to help response teams, call centers, and care teams more effectively communicate and manage patient data and streamline communications for a more efficient treatment process.
Kiran Yeddala of Nivid Technologies: Free Smart Emergency Management Services Platform: "N-Sense."
COVID-19 Q&A
Danny Tomsett of UneeQ: We taught UneeQ's AI digital human, Sophie, how to answer COVID-19 related questions, so people can stay aware, informed and, hopefully, stay safe. She's free (and still learning).
Michael Polk of Polk Properties: Podcast special on the coronavirus, "What Just Happened To My Rent Check?"
Antonio Altamirano of Tangelo Technologies: A web app to track symptoms and other COVID-19 news
Harshil Shah of DXFactor: Web app for everyone to use and be up-to-date with the spread of this pandemic.
Virtual Events
Marcelo De Santis of ThoughtWorks: Join us on Thursday, April 30th for this complimentary webinar, "Remote Leadership Strategies to Amplify Collaboration," for actionable guidance on how to effectively lead remote teams.
Pete Canalichio of BrandAlive: Brand Expansion webinar series
Parna Sarkar-Basu of Brand and Buzz Marketing: Launched Tea With WITI — every Wednesday morning at 9:00 am EDT — to help members and the community navigate the uncertain time. We'll be covering a range of topics, from career transition to being visible while working from home.
Christopher Abbass of Talentful: Free Webinar: Finding, Attracting, Hiring and Retaining Diverse Talent💡 Evie-Rose Deighan, Talentful's Client Lead in San Francisco, is hosting a webinar on April 16th to share her insights and actionable tips, having worked on diversity and inclusion strategies for a number of global tech companies.
Tom Albert of MeasuredRisk: Webinar: Executive Watchtower: Turn Pillars into the Parthenon Wednesday, April 15th 2020 - 2:00 PM (CDT)
Tim Vasko of BlockCerts.com: We are pushing hard @ BlockCerts.com to deliver our platform, information, insights of how technology can help. If anyone would like to join our next one please contact me. We are doing a weekly Twitter and podcast every Friday at 9:30am PST to share our ideas and thoughts. I will post our location as we do these, and other special webinars from around the world.
Brian Sathianathan of Iterate.ai: Webinar with deck: How are companies overcoming COVID-19?
Marcelo De Santis of ThoughtWorks: Join us for a webinar on April 14, 2020, with ThoughtWorks’ Chief Scientist Martin Fowler and Global Head of Technology Mike Mason to hear their timely guidance on what actions technology leaders can take to successfully reprioritize digital initiatives and deliver remotely during these challenging times.
Pete Canalichio of BrandAlive: Pete Canalichio and the BrandAlive team want to continue to remind you of their commitment to develop tools, talks, and training designed to inspire, educate, and empower you to achieve all that is possible. BrandAlive hopes you will take advantage of this free webinar series (next one April 16) whether you need timely help with your business, or if you just have a free hour and want to increase your knowledge.
Hugo Macedo of Unbabel: If you want to know what we’re seeing in Customer Service Operations of Enterprise brands in the context of COVID-19, how they are adapting to ensure business continuity and how this is informing them to build more resilient operations, feel free to join our webinar. Want to know what we’re seeing in Customer Service operations of Enterprise brands in the context of COVID-19, how they are adapting to ensure business continuity, and how this is informing them to build more resilient operations? Join us! Webinar: "How to minimize the impact of COVID-19 in customer experience and build operational resilience."
Kelly O'Connell of ON ITS AXIS: Join a webinar 4/2/20: “How Organizations Can Optimize Growth (even during a downturn) by Tapping Into Their Internal "Innovation Talent”
Cameron Bishop of SkillPat: To unwrap the nuances of FFCRA, SkillPath has produced a webinar — The Families First COVID-19 Response Act: What Employers Need to Know — with HR and legal expert Max Muller. SkillPath is offering Forbes Council members and their networks a $50 discount on this webinar using the code FORBES.
Jennifer Stevens of JHL: For those of you who work in marketing, communications or the nonprofit sector, join our listen-only webinar discussion on maintaining a digital marketing presence and providing valuable communication tools and content through the coronavirus pandemic. We host the series every Tuesday/Thursday at 9am CST. Request info. All previous calls are shared on our JHL website.
Greg Demetriou of Lorraine Gregory Communications: Blog and webinar about marketing process during this stress-filled time
Korena Keys of KeyMedia Solutions: "Survival Marketing" webinar
York Baur of MoxiWorks: This week we brought industry leaders together from brokerages across the country for a virtual roundtable to talk about what it’s like in each of their brokerages right now, how they are staying present for their teams, how their day to day is changing and one tangible piece of advice (in addition to the many other ideas) broker leaders can do in the next week. The content is free to view.
Business Support
Jonnathan Trilleras of LEDTruckMedia: Out of home + digital advertising campaigns at discounted rates as well as local health care agencies and companies to help with critical awareness campaigns at cost or pro-bono when possible.
Tracy Cote of Zenefits: Zenefits is offering free payroll for 12 months with a subscription to any of the base HR product subscriptions as part of the In It Together Program. This applies to both new and existing customers. In addition to providing a free year of payroll, Zenefits is offering several enhanced product offerings for free over the next 60 days.
Gev Balyan of UCRAFT: To support small businesses affected by COVID-19, we’re giving away discount coupons and a 12-month free subscription for restaurants. Accept orders with zero transaction fees.
Deniz Doganay of Digital Debut: At Digital Debut we would like to offer some advice for your website in order to get in ready for some quick organic wins to help you with your Google rankings. I would be happy to extend this offer to anyone who wants some quick advice. Please contact me with your email and website address so we can take a look for you.
Ken Kanara of ECA: We are providing back-office support to businesses at/below cost to get through this (good for clients, and good for us to save jobs). They can help across a variety of functions: 1. Recruitment 2. Virtual assistants 3. Data entry 4. Customer service 5. Powerpoint. Contact Ken.
Caroline Tien-Spalding of Aptology: Resource crowdsourced from Lars Schmidt on what companies are doing, saying, layoffs, hiring, internal/external comms, and policies.
Dee Hutchison of Dee is For Digital: I am offering one of my best-selling courses for free for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic. "What's Your Big iDEEa?" is a 14-day program that helps you come up with 3 digital ideas and identify the ideal target market as well as the best pricing. I am also offering bi-weekly online group coaching calls for anyone taking the course so that I can provide feedback and support — also for the duration of the pandemic.
Christopher Abbass of Talentful: We are currently offering discounted services for companies that are still hiring during this crisis. We provide on-site talent experts in San Francisco and hire across Tech, Product, Marketing, Commercial and Ops. Contact Chris.
Jimmy Jain of Square Sequel Consulting: Design Thinking Professionals offering our Design Thinking Practitioner Program absolutely FREE. There are two options to access the course: 1) Live Master class; enroll FREE and can choose one of the three times being offered; 2) Get FREE access to self-pace learning through video lecture series.
Brian Sathianathan of Iterate.ai: "How companies are surviving COVID-19 by creating novel digital strategies" webinar and slide deck.
Home Office/Working Remotely
Jessica Adams of Brad's Deals: To help during this novel time, we have been focused on creating shopping guides to find money-saving deals: Setting up a home office; e-learning resources; and at-home entertainment.
Craig Walker of Dialpad: We are committed to providing reliable tools and services to allow users to seamlessly work from anywhere. If you or your company will be working away from the office in the coming weeks, we are offering Dialpad Talk Pro and UberConference Business free for a limited time to help keep you connected.
George Arabian of nvision solutions: A partner of ours [Stature Films] put a short video series together on you to best set up your camera, lighting, audio, posture, etc. when doing video.
A. Lee Judge of Content Monsta: In order to communicate professionally, clearly, and without distractions, you need to prepare your video environment and equipment.
Personal Finance
Laurel Taylor of FutureFuel.io: FutureFuel.io is opening part of its suite of services to the public, for free, in this time of crisis. Those who have been most affected by this crisis should act now to take care of their financial health, as well as their physical health, long-term. FutureFuel.io CARES can be accessed here.
Ahmad (Al) Fares of CeliTech Inc.: Free cellular data to US healthcare professionals. The process is simple: those who have eSIM enabled devices (e.g. iPhone XR/XS/11 or Google Pixel 4/3) can drop us a line at celitech.com/contact mentioning at which hospital they work and thereafter they’ll receive by e-mail a QR code with free 3 GB data plan valid till May 31, 2020.
Wellness
Louis Gagnon of Total Brain: We're offering a free 3-month corporate subscription of the Total Brain mental health and wellness platform for companies and their employees.
Mirella De Civita of Papillon MDC: Offering a support group to learn how to ride your wave of fear. Together, we will explore how to work with our emotions and thoughts and move toward the person you desire to be during this challenging time in our collective lives. Contact Mirella.
Coaching
Kristy McCann of GoCoach: GoCoach, a coach marketplace and learning platform, will be offering free coaching sessions to all displaced workers. Our mission at GoCoach is to make education more accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime, which is why we feel it is our duty to share our knowledge with those in need during this difficult time.
Paul N. Larsen of Find Your VOICE as a Leader: Free 45min coaching session to anybody in the community who would like to chat, talk, listen, discuss, brainstorm, etc.
Heather Wilde of ROCeteer: Free week of coaching service with code HEATHERWILDEWEEK
Ashra Bennett of Ashra Global: 50% OFF All Transformational Exec Coaching & Business Strategy Packages
Dodie Jacobi of Dodiodo Inc.: Dodie Jacobi, The Consultant’s Consultant™, is adding a free 1 on 1 for Forbes Councils members when you join the Circle of Trust, her mentor-hosted, peer advisory think-tank hosted to support consultants and coaches on the grow. Find details and registration here.
Christine Meyer of Christine Meyer Coaching: With Every Lock, Comes a Key: "Let yourself feel better as your life continues to form and inform you."
More Good Stuff
Merilee Kern of The Ascendant Group: Story published with FastCompany.com outlining some front-line insight on what courageous leadership looks like amid a global pandemic.
Tiffini Connell of West Coast Commercial Realty: Select resources (that we independently reviewed) that may provide some stability or help in the short or long term for individuals, small businesses, landlords and tenants.
Bryan Ware of The Crayon Initiative: Free Stay-At-Home Playbook filled with fun activities to spark ideas—and smiles—for the whole family.
Karla Dennis of Karla Dennis and Associates Inc.: Blog posts with COVID-19 advice for business owners and individuals
Susan Neisloss of Big Bite, Inc.: Video about Angelenos helping others In need during the pandemic.
Rob Fazio of On Point Advising: Crisis resources
Noam Harel of Cleo: Webinars, blog posts, and more for COVID-19 support.
Ben Martinez of Ramp Talent and Sumato Coffee: Sumato Coffee is offering a 20% off discount for all coffee orders. No promo code required, just order online and we will roast & ship to your door."
Salvatore Stolfo of Allure Security: Free anti-phishing solution to defend against COVID-19 scams.
Zack Schuler of NINJIO: Staying Safe for Cyberscams while working from home — 10 free episodes
Kelly O'Connell of ON ITS AXIS: Offering a limited number of free licenses to our ON ITS AXIS remote work readiness health check and predictive profiler tools.
Matteo Atti of VistaJet: During this time of uncertainty, VistaJet is offering complimentary empty leg flights for governments and medical transportation to help ensure that those with critical travel requirements are able to keep moving.
Eytan Bensoussan of NorthOne: Hey everybody. I've put together a list of all the free/discounted deals for SMBs that my team could find. Please take advantage of these to cut costs!
Dominique Farnan of DotConnect: I am offering my recruiting, sourcing, training, and talent advisory services at cost, for no profit, for anyone who is still hiring. I have an exceptional team of recruiters and sourcers ready and available now. Contact Dominique.
