Are you a service worker struggling amidst the coronavirus crisis?
We’re here to help!
Apply for Aid or leave a tip for Oahu’s displaced restaurant workers. In response to watching restaurants lay off mass amounts of employees across Honolulu, we have decided to band together as a community to support one another. Following the lead of cities around the country, we created a virtual way to tip and support individuals in the restaurant industry. On our web page/ spreadsheet you will find a growing list of Honolulu restaurant professionals (bartenders, servers, hosts, chefs etc.) from your local restaurants who have either currently been laid off due to recent closures or who have had their income dramatically reduced due to COVID-19 and are in need of financial help.
To address the nutritional and economic needs of the Hawai?i community during the COVID-19 pandemic, Kupu has launched a free meal distribution program on O?ahu. Each meal is prepared fresh by our Culinary Program housed at the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Ho?okupu Center in Kewalo Basin. Since March 23, Kupu has already delivered thousands of free meals and pantry items to youth and families. Beginning with Waimanalo, the program has now expanded service to Kahalu?u and has mobilized to include additional areas of high need.
Due to public concern about the risk of COVID-19 in public gatherings, Blood Bank of Hawaii is canceling all upcoming blood drives – including on neighbor islands – as of Monday, March 23. As the stewards of Hawaii’s blood supply, however, we must balance the need for public safety with the need to maintain adequate and continuous levels of blood. Meeting both needs requires a bold new approach. Therefore, we created a safe donation environment which complies with the social distancing recommendations while also allowing us to collect the necessary blood to sustain our
community.
The economic impacts of COVID-19 on our island community threaten the wellbeing of our most vulnerable families – those who already struggle through poverty and others who are at risk of financial hardship.
We are continuing to provide food, emergency assistance, and basic needs, but we need your support now as more and more of our neighbors look to us for help and hope.
volunteer opportunity for any state workers, including professors and other UH employees with a state ID to help clear the backlog of HI unemployment claims.
Apply for reliefe or donate: CORE: CHILDREN OF RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES is dedicated to serving food and beverage service employees with children, who are faced with life-altering circumstances and in need of our help. As the world faces the biggest pandemic in our lifetime, we want to continue to honor our mission by providing support to food and beverage service employees, with children, who have been medically diagnosed with COVID-19.
Apply for relief or donate. Temporarily overwhelmed with applications so check back soon. Will update if it changes and I catch it.
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Not yet in Honolulu, but a great project.
We are facing an unprecedented emergency, unlike anything this country has experienced. Beyond the health impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus, our economy has ground to a halt — schools and businesses are closed, travel is restricted, and restaurants face an uncertain future. Traditional safety nets like school feeding programs, childcare services, and senior centers are struggling to stay open.
The reality is stark, but simple: Millions of Americans are out of work and struggling to put food on the table for their families.
But this moment is not without hope. We will get through this, and World Central Kitchen has seen what’s possible as we’ve fought on the front lines in Japan and California deploying systems to deliver meals to quarantined cruise ship passengers. Our Relief Team is now serving nearly 100,000 meals every day across the country, and we need you. Together, #ChefsForAmerica can make sure nobody is left behind.
Includes several more relief funds for restaurant workers and their children, Crucial resources for immigrants, both documented and undocumented, health info, explanations of Gov't resources, unemployment resources, news and information on the impact of Covid 19 on the restaurant sector's workers. GEM of a resource.
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC) is asking for disaster relief for the workers it represents, but its aid program is on hold since they were overwhelmed with applications, so I would consider donating to Restaurant Workers' Community Foundation Covid Fund instead until ROC resumes direct aid. I will change this as soon as I find out they are back on track.
Support restaurant workers and restaurants if you can afford a donation, as they are one of the hardest hist sectors of the economy.