Giving Kitchen

The countdown is on to The Pinky 2024! ⛳ We can’t wait to hang with everyone at Giving Kitchen’s Georgia Golf Tournament. Special thank you to our 2024 Sponsors — Your support ensures that food service workers know that Giving Kitchen has their backs during times of crisis. Together, we are building a food service community that meets each crisis with compassion and care. Still looking to play? Learn more about The Pinky 2024: https://bit.ly/3UPul6Q

Restaurant Finance & Development Conference - a whirlwind of events, meetings, speakers and workshops that provide insights, expert informative financial reports, the opportunity to make connections and more. A big thank you to Franchise Times for yoir partnership. Thank you to TalentServed, Aprio and Mallory Agency for hosting a reception to introduce Giving Kitchen to industry leaders. Matt Mallory Steve Gibson Dana Zukofsky Jen Hidinger-Kendrick Tommy Lee KATIE SALERNO And friends that stopped by Jennifer Dodd Noah Glass Brandon Coleman III Jason Berry Laura DeBiasio John Haggai .

Giving Kitchen provides emergency support to food-service workers through financial grants and essential resources. #nonprofits #philanthropy #restaurants

Struggling with grief and financial strain, Becca, a server with 5 years of industry experience, found herself falling behind on bills after the unexpected loss of her brother. Her boyfriend’s coworker, another server in the industry, told her about how she had received help from Giving Kitchen so she decided to reach out. Learn more about her experience with asking for help from Giving Kitchen https://bit.ly/3YVqO9l 📌 If you or someone you know is a food service worker working in a restaurant, food truck, catering company, concessions, bar or taproom who needs assistance due to illness, injury, death of an immediate family member, or housing disaster like flood or fire, please ask for help https://bit.ly/3JK5yLH

Celebrating a landmark as Giving Kitchen serves its 25,000th client. 💙 🧡 Endless gratitude goes out to our supportive community who are actively making a difference during these challenging times. Every share, donation, and opportunity to share our mission, inspires hope for food service workers in crisis. Remember, if you are a food service worker experiencing a crisis, you are not alone. There's always relief, support, and brighter days ahead. Ask for Help 👉Givingkitchen.org/help Donate and support 👉 givingkitchen.org/give-now

We're proud to partner with Giving Kitchen to expand their Stability Network program, connecting those in the food service industry to community resources and curated services, including support for health and wellness, housing and utilities, family and social services and more. With this partnership, we’re giving more people access to important resources, by granting $2.7 million in funding over three years. Together, we’re creating a stronger food service community.

We want to express our gratitude to our community, who have stepped up their giving in the wake of this crisis. Your support is helping food service workers in desperate need. 💙 🧡 Share Giving Kitchen's Impact in October. Our Stability Network is working tirelessly to connect food service workers in crisis to resources in their area that are serving critical basic needs first. We’re also connecting them to food, shelter, and benefits emergency resources. In October, we referred 2,333 food service workers to 3,339 resources. Those food service workers received an average of 1.8 referrals per request. The Financial Assistance team has been working overtime to provide direct assistance to those experiencing qualifying crises throughout the region and across the country. They awarded over $213,000 in aid last month, with more requests coming in every day. 👉 Fund the growing need: givingkitchen.org/give-now 👉 Ask for help: Givingkitchen.org/help 👉 Share GK's Hurricane Recovery Resources: https://lnkd.in/e4V5zqAV

“Restaurant workers have one of the highest rates of suicide among all classes of the workforce,” said Kevin Tanner, the commissioner of the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities. In restaurant lingo, an item is 86’d when it’s out of stock or removed from the menu. The term is also now part of the successful #86TheStigma 988 marketing campaign in Georgia, a collaboration between the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, the Georgia Restaurant Association, and Giving Kitchen, a nonprofit providing emergency assistance for food service workers. The campaign’s on-the-ground approach caught the eye of local and national media, allowing it to reach close to 60 million people. Tanner shares how the campaign came to be and his plans to build on what they’ve learned. https://lnkd.in/gNyFgs88

“Giving Kitchen is, and will always be, the place where compassion meets care for our industry. My purpose now is to ensure that we continue to show, in real and impactful ways, how deeply we in food service care for one another.” — Nancy Oswald, Board Chair Learn more about Giving Kitchen's newly appointed Chair of the Board of Directors https://bit.ly/3UxaBET

Thank you, #GivingKitchen community, for coming together and making a real difference this October! 💙 🍽️ Coast to coast restaurants and food service establishments have educated their staff about our critical services, and Giving Kitchen's supporters and diners have enjoyed exclusive ways to support food service workers in crisis! By supporting Dining with Gratitude you are raising funds to sustain initiatives like Pop-Up Doc, QPR Suicide Prevention Training, and Substance Abuse Recovery. Learn more about Dining with Gratitude: givingkitchen.org/DWG. 📸 : Chloe Sumrall at recent @vestige.restaurant fundraising event. #DiningWithGratitude2024 #GivingKitchen