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Nonprofit organization: Canal Alliance's vital role for Latinx workers in Marin President and Publisher Rob Devincenz | Advertising Manager Lori Pearce | Advertising Operations Manager Diane Sartarelli This Keep It Local Special Section is produced in its entirety by the Advertising Department of the Marin Independent Journal and did not involve the editing or reporting staff of the Marin IJ's newsroom. The Marin Independent Journal is located at 4000 Civic Center Drive, Suite 301 in San Rafael, California 94903 ON THE COVER | Clockwise from left: View of Golden Gate Bridge looking into Marin County; Sun First Solar roof panels at a residence in Muir Beach; Canal Alliance sets up for the weekly food pantry; view of Marin County from Mount Tamalpais; Canal Alliance staff members collecting supplies to distribute for Promotores de Salud program; Chase, Craig, Gary, Mark and Justin Nelson of staffing firm Nelson at the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in 2001; Sun First Solar panels at Good Earth Market, Tam Valley; view of Sausalito looking through a flower bed in Larkspur; Canal Alliance provides information to Canal residents waiting in line for free COVID-19 tests. – Photos by or courtesy of Getty/istock, Sun First Solar, Susan Adler, Canal Alliance, Nelson Canal Alliance fights on pandemic's frontlines Clockwise from left: Canal Alliance staff members Laura Jiménez-Diecks and Yolanda Oviedo set up for the weekly Tuesday morning food pantry at Canal Alliance; Canal Alliance CEO, Omar Carrera, oversees set-up for food bagging and distribution at the weekly food pantry; Two members of the Conservation Corps North Bay provide volunteer support for the weekly food pantry during shelter in place. – Photos by Susan Adler by Megan Hansen Special to the Marin IJ W hile many Marin County residents are working from home and sheltering-in- place, 42-year-old San Rafael resident Laura is struggling to get by. She asked to have her last name withheld because of her immigration status. "My job is a house cleaner, so I've lost pretty much all my clients because they don't allow me to go in their homes any more," she said, speaking in Spanish through volunteer interpreter Maite Duran of the San Rafael nonprofit Alcohol Justice. "I've been trying to get all kinds of odd jobs like painting houses and installing mailboxes to be able to pay my rent, but it's difficult." Laura is a single mother of three and her household's sole breadwinner. As an unauthorized immigrant worker, she can't access unemployment and recently turned to food banks and the federal Coronavirus exposes income, safety disparities for Marin's Latinx population 4 September 20, 2020 Keep It Local A Marketing Supplement of the Marin Independent Journal | marinij.com