Morris Day is best known as an associate of Prince. They attended the same high school in Minneapolis and in 1974 as teenagers became bandmates in the band Grand Central and the rest is history!

My Vision for Funk Corona hit me at 3am while watching CNN News. I was looking at all the confirmed cases, and confirmed deaths from this virus, and knew that something more had to be done. I was watching how the nurses and doctors on the frontline were risking their own lives day in and day out, without proper PPE and lack of rest. All in the name of saving the lives of our love ones.

So at that moment, I decide I would do my part. I hopped up and said F%#K Corona! Then the lightbulb went off and I said wait, “Funk Corona”.. A concert extravaganza of some of the biggest and most legendary Funk Bands in game- would come together to raise money for the workers on the frontline, so that they have proper safety equipment to continue to do the remarkable job they are already doing for America. That’s what “Funk Corona” is all about.

Direct Relief works in the U.S. and internationally to equip doctors and nurses with life-saving medical resources to care for the world’s most vulnerable people.

Direct Relief working in overdrive to get protective gear and critical care medications to as many health workers as possible, as quickly as possible, with emergency deliveries leaving daily for medical facilities across the U.S.

Direct Relief is coordinating with public health authorities, nonprofit organizations and businesses in the U.S. and globally to provide personal protective equipment and essential medical items to health workers responding to coronavirus (COVID-19).

Direct Relief is also staging personal protective equipment with regional response agencies across the world, including in the Caribbean and South America through the Pan American Health Organization.

Denver Broncos Pro Bowl Linebacker Von Miller is launching a month-long Coronavirus relief campaign that will provide meals to students in Colorado and Texas who are missing daily meals due to the closure of schools. The campaign, titled Von Miller Sacks COVID, will see Miller’s foundation, Von’s Vision, partnering with hunger relief-focused nonprofits and food pantries throughout Texas and Colorado to distribute meals regularly to students in underprivileged communities.

Through Von’s Vision, Miller has been focused on providing ongoing, no-cost vision care to students in both Colorado and Texas. Now, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, these students face an even larger crisis: hunger. To address this new need, Miller has set a goal to provide 580,000 meals to students in these two states during the next 30 days through his Von Miller Sacks COVID campaign. Miller is personally funding the first 150,000 meals himself.