Di Pietro started Feed the Frontlines NYC, a for-profit initiative, to raise funds for his restaurant, Tarallucci e Vino, and other local restaurants and to provide hospital workers in the country s hardest hit city with free and delicious food. So far the initiative has raised over $1.26 million to pay for meals, and its success has even inspired others to create their own Feed the Frontlines initiatives in other cities.
Beyond feeding local hospital workers fighting the pandemic, Feed the Frontlines has helped keep participating restaurants alive and their workers employed. We have . restaurants helping us and delivering food so they can keep their lights on, Di Pietro says. It s morphing into something that I didn t expect, but I m very happy to be able to put together supply and demand.
Di Pietro started Feed the Frontlines NYC, a for-profit initiative, to raise funds for his restaurant, Tarallucci e Vino, and other local restaurants and to provide hospital workers in the country s hardest hit city with free and delicious food. So far the initiative has raised over $1.26 million to pay for meals, and its success has even inspired others to create their own Feed the Frontlines initiatives in other cities.
Beyond feeding local hospital workers fighting the pandemic, Feed the Frontlines has helped keep participating restaurants alive and their workers employed. We have . restaurants helping us and delivering food so they can keep their lights on, Di Pietro says. It s morphing into something that I didn t expect, but I m very happy to be able to put together supply and demand.
âIncredible Generosityâ for 2020, But Some Are Frettingâ What Will 2021 Look Like?
December 10, 2020
This article originally appeared in Jewish Insider.
The American Jewish communityâs network of approximately 9,500 nonprofit organizations has largely avoided collapse during the COVID-19-spurred slump that has caused many for-profit businesses to shut down or significantly shrink.
The federal governmentâs Paycheck Protection Program, which allowed businesses and nonprofits to obtain forgivable loans if they kept staff on payroll, ended in August.
Making the difference now, experts say, are the American Jewish philanthropists who have stepped up to support the nonprofit system. Foundations are dipping into their endowments to provide additional funds to support camps, Jewish schools, human services agencies and others â well beyond what they anticipated when originally planning their 2020 budgets.