On Oct. 12, 2020, hair-care brand R+Co came to the Federico Advanced academy in Sacramento to present R+Co Drive-In, a socially distanced drive-in and livestreamed educational hairstyling event.

Sacramento Edible Yards, a father-and-son organic-gardening business, helps people learn how to grow their own food at home.

A buyback program is helping microfarmers from the Southeast Asian community feed families and recoup their losses from a drop in sales. 

Old Country Tailor in East Sacramento began making and selling cloth face masks in April and sold around 4,000 that month.

On National Doughnut Day, the Sacramento doughnut shop Sweet Dozen ran a special to support the Black Youth Leadership Project.

Yolo Delivers Hope, started in response to the COVID-19 pandemic by Woodland’s Dinner on Main organizers, contracts with Woodland restaurants to create meals for homebound seniors, low-income families and migrant farm workers.