Responding to Community Need During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the way our society functions and exacerbated community needs. Lucas (Low-Income Energy Partnership Developer VISTA at Ecolibrium3) saw the opportunity to meet these needs, and shifted the focus of his service. Community stakeholders identified two community needs: the need for personal protective equipment (PPE) for community members and frontline workers and food security for families of students. Lucas set out to develop partnerships and initiatives to address these needs. He coordinated the distribution of 350 grocery bags to families of students at Duluth Public Schools during spring recess when regular meal service was not available to students to ensure no child would go hungry during that week. He helped design and execute, along with Eco3 AmeriCorps VISTA Summer Associates Wren, Joel, and Kiefer, the Pay It Forward PPE Project which produced over 220,000 face shields for frontline workers, distributed over 5,000 masks to community members vulnerable to the coronavirus, and donated over $50,000 of PPE proceeds to local charities and groups. Partnerships and coming together as a community are vital during this time.