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The Federal Trade Commission recently issued a new consumer education blog post with the National Association of Attorneys General, offering tips on how to recognize and avoid vaccine-related scams. According to the post, with COVID-19 vaccines in the pipeline, scammers will not be far behind, and people should recognize the red flags of potential scams.

The article contains a graphic, featured in this article and included in the blog post, that can be captured and printed on 8 1/2 x 11″ paper to be posted in public areas or utilized in handouts. Article tips include:

• You likely will not need to pay anything out of pocket to get the vaccine during this public health emergency.
• You can’t pay to put your name on a list to get the vaccine.
• You can’t pay to get early access to the vaccine.
• No one from a vaccine distribution site or health care payer, like a private insurance company, will call you asking for your Social Security number or your credit card or bank account information to sign you up to get the vaccine.
• Beware of providers offering other products, treatments, or medicines to prevent the virus. Check with your health care provider before paying for or receiving any COVID-19-related treatment.

Large ​vinyl banners are a creative way to artistically display important information, but often production costs can be high. When OneSource Center staff learned a high quality 5’ x 30” vinyl banner could be produced for under $12 at the Cincinnati Public Library’s MakerSpace lab, this knowledge was too good to ignore! COVID-inspired cost savings research led the OneSource Center team to plan a field trip and investigate the vinyl printer/cutter option.

MakerSpace, an artistic treasure-trove of creativity tools located conveniently at the library’s downtown Cincinnati location, has a large number of free-to-use options including 3D printers, software, laser cutters, vinyl banner printers and more.  Library card holders can truly create almost anything they can imagine.  (Small fees assessed for materials used in production of items.)

 “We wanted to create a large banner for our office that highlighted the corporate sponsors supporting our work,” said Alyson Best, OneSource Center Marketing Manager.  “Creating the banner through commercial vendors was costly, but we heard we could make the same banner at the library at minimal cost just by creating the PDF and doing the printing ourselves.  We would much rather use those extra funds to support our mission of strengthening nonprofits in our region!” (more…)

If you provide bus passes to your clients, your human services agency can now register to receive a 50% discount on the passes you purchase through Cincinnati Metro’s Everybody Rides Metro program. In order to participate, you must provide the following to cjones@go-metro.com: Online application form ACH Deposit Form 501(c)(3) The program helps riders access jobs, medical appointments, services and the grocery store. More information here.