Category: Community

Writers Guild Initiative Writing Workshops: Apply Today

#MEAction is excited to announce we are partnering with the Writers Guild Initiative (WGI) again to offer creative writing workshops for people with ME and Long COVID**. WGI has graciously donated their time to offer these writer workshops through personal mentorship with the writers of the #MEAction community! The workshops consist of three sessions during

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Virtual Interview + Q&A with Stuart Murdoch

Stuart Murdoch, from the band Belle and Sabastian, will be interviewed by #MEAction Minnesota’s State Chapter Leader, Terri L Wilder, about his recently released novel, Nobody’s Empire, on Saturday, April 19th at 1pm ET/6pm BST. We hope you join us for this virtual event to learn more about his debut novel. Tickets are available for

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Women’s History Month

I have been honored as I have watched our volunteers share what makes them powerful and who they see power in for Women’s History Month. I hope you will look back on what has been shared so far!  This final week we are focusing on our community. And I have made no secret about how

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Join the Fight for Medicaid & Telehealth

We want to provide you with an update about where we stand with the federal administration massively cutting Medicaid and threatening to get rid of Telehealth extensions. We are so grateful for the actions that you have taken with us to fight to protect Medicaid and Telehealth but we still have a long road ahead

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Office of Long COVID at HHS Closing

Ian Simon, the head of the Long COVID Office at Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), released the following statement to coworkers: Dear Colleagues, We are writing to let you know that the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice will be closing as part of the administration’s reorganization coming this week. We are

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Trump Cuts Funding for ME/CFS Centers at Columbia University

We are writing to you with an urgent call to action. The Trump administration has cut funding for the Center for Solutions for ME/CFS at Columbia University as part of a broader $400 million funding termination at the university. This devastating decision includes the loss of NIH funding for one of the nation’s few Collaborative Research

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Volunteer’s Bakery Spreads ME Awareness + Raises Funds

#MEAction Georgia volunteer, Cory Anderson-Sweeney, uses her Baby Deer Bakery to spread awareness about ME and her Cookie of the Month Club to help raise funds for #MEAction. We were inspired by her journey and we hope you will enjoy the scrumptious look into her story in her own words. Here’s the delicious morsel: When

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