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#MEAction is thinking of our community during these unpredictable times.You’re doing your best. Reaching out for help takes courage and vulnerability. You deserve to feed yourself and anyone you care for with dignity. Finding help isn’t charity. It’s survival, community, and resilience.Here are some resources to help keep your fridge stocked: Call 2-1-1 (just dial 211) for your zip code — they’re a free hotline linking to local food pantries, soup kitchens, and emergency food

The launch of the Minnesota Home Help Navigation Program is proof that advocacy works.

With the Minnesota Home Help Navigation Program now underway, here’s an inside look at the strategic choices in our patient-led playbook.

Pilot program offers free support for Minnesotans with energy-limiting illness

Meet #MEAction’s Newest Staff Member- Linda Pozen

#MEAction has been working hard with #NotJustFatigue to advocate for the ME/CFS Research Roadmap and it has paid off! The Senate Appropriations Committee included the roadmap in their report!

In celebration of Juneteenth, we have put together a list of books by disabled Black authors.

The Minnesota Department of Health's Long COVID program has been saved from elimination!

We cannot allow our elected officials to harm chronically ill and disabled people with rampant cuts. This is yet another SOS moment for people in our community.

We reached 7,000 signatures on our last letter. This time, our goal is 10,000. Please sign the letter today and share it with your friends and family.

Share this message about #MillionsMissing with your own networks.

#MEAction has been hard at work connecting individuals to their elected officials to talk about the ME/CFS Research Roadmap, Medicaid, and telehealth.

#MEAction Georgia's Maggie Boxey gave a TEDx talk about her experience as a person with ME.

On May 12th, we're sending out an SOS to Congress to Save our Support Systems, our Science, and our Society.

#MEAction is excited to announce we are partnering with the Writers Guild Initiative again to offer creative writing workshops for people with ME and Long COVID!

For #MillionsMissing 2025, #MEAction is sending out an SOS.

The White House has abruptly announced that it is terminating funding for NIH RECOVER grants studying Long COVID, effectively stopping 45 studies that were almost complete.

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!

Read the statement from Ian Simon, the head of the Long COVID Office at Department of Health and Human Services.

This devastating decision includes the loss of NIH funding for one of the nation’s few Collaborative Research Centers focused on ME/CFS.