For the nation's frontline neighborhoods, religious institutions often serve as an anchor and oasis, providing critical support and services across communities. Houses of worship have often stepped in to fill the void, offering crucial programming and resources like food assistance, daycare, and medical services.

Take a drive through Midtown Manhattan and you might cross paths with towering, futuristic structures that look very much like next-century streetlights. But those modernistic, clunky pillars are actually high-speed, on-street charging systems called pantographs that can charge electric buses in just three to six minutes.