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These are hard times and many brave people are risking their lives to save others. One of the best ways we can thank them is by making sure they have a good, warm meal. With your help, we can feed medical staff and help restaurants and their staff with much-needed work. Below is a list of organizations, companies, hospitals, and restaurants that you can use to directly help frontline health care workers. You can also check out our list of D.C.’s restaurants still open for business. The list will be updated regularly as more links are found. Submit your non-profit, hospital portal, or restaurant.
| Name | Donate | Meal | Type | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| River Falls Market | Donate Now | https://marketriverfalls.com/donation/ | Meal | Restaurant | The Market at River Falls, started delivering food to Fire Stations 10 and 30 – our local stations at Falls Road and Oaklyn Drive and River Road and Seven Locks Road – and to Suburban Hospital. We are also delivering to Bethesda Chevy Chase Rescue Squad and Rockville Fire Station 33. Dinner is being delivered once a week to the fire stations and lunch twice a week to Suburban. |
| Sugo Pizza Feeding Shady Grove Hospital | Donate Now | https://www.eatsugo.com/donate | Meal | Restaurant | Sugo is donating to the staff helping patients in long term care. Donations toward Shady Groce Center in Rockville, MD |
| Feed Loudoun County Front Line | Donate Now | https://www.gofundme.com/f/feedloudounsfrontline | Meal | Restaurant | I am the store manager at Scotto’s Rigatoni Grill. We have started a campaign #feedloudounsfrontline and have been sending food out to the local hospitals, fire and police personnel as well as grocery staff. |
| Patisserie Manuel feeding the front Lines | Donate Now | https://www.gofundme.com/f/patisserie-manuel-feeding-the-front-lines | Breakfast | Restaurant | Your donation will be used to send a meal to hospitals, fire departments, and police stations, you are also supporting our local small bakery, which means we can keep our doors open and our employees working. |
| Off Their Plate (Coming Soon) | Donate Now | https://offtheirplate.org/ | Meal | Non-Profit | Off Their Plate is a grassroots movement that focuses on feeding tireless frontline COVID healthcare workers by restoring work and livelihoods to the local restaurant workforce. This organization facilitates delivery and provides financial backing and restaurant connections. |
| Slice of Hunger Pandemic Pizza | Donate Now | https://sliceouthunger.org/pandemicpizza | Pizza | Non-Profit | Slice of Hunger is a 100% volunteer-run nonprofit organization that has raised over $590,000 to battle hunger in the US since launching in 2009. Now they are addressing the need during COVID-19 by partnering with local pizza places to help medical staff. |
| Front Line Meals D.C. | Donate Now | https://feedthefight.org/ | Meal | Non-Profit | Frontline Foods, a partner of World Central Kitchen, is a grassroots organization that raises money from the community to pay local restaurants to prepare meals for the heroes responding to the COVID-19 crisis. |
| Feed the Fight D.C. | Donate Now | https://www.frontlinefoods.org/ | Meal | Non-Profit | Feed the Fight is raising funds to support local restaurants and their staff by ordering food for delivery to the local healthcare workers at hospitals and medical centers in the DMV region. |
| World Central Kitchen | Donate Now | https://wck.org/ | Meal | Non-Profit | World Central Kitchen is a nonprofit by Chef José Andrés that provides fresh hot meals to hospitals, clinics, and schools by partnering with local restaurants. WCK partners with and provides logistic support to local grassroots organizations that are supporting their communities and health care workers. |
| Send Food to Holy Cross Hospital Locations | https://www.holycrosshealth.org/donate/covid-19-support/#food | Meal | Hospital | Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring and Germantown is accepting donations of food and self-care items for their medical staff. All food deliveries must be coordinated/arranged with hospital staff. | |
| Feed Doctors Community Hospitals | Donate Now | https://www.dchweb.org/ | Meal | Hospital | This organization has hospitals located in Prince George’s and Anne Arundel County with a central location at Doctors Community Hospital. Your donation will help equips medical staff and provide proper nourishment during these hard times. |
| Buy Grocery for Providence Health System Hospital | Donate Now | https://healthcare.ascension.org/COVID-19/Donate | Grocery | Hospital | You can help cover the cost of grocery and other supplies for D.C.’s last public hospital, Providence Health System Hospital. |
| Send Breakfast & Coffee from Bethesda Bagels | Donate Now | https://www.bethesdabagels.com/ | Breakfast | Restaurant | One of DMV’s best bagel chains, Bethesda Bagels is gathering donations to help feed medical staff. They will send delicious breakfast and lunch with coffee to the local hospitals. |
| The 4 Corners Pub | https://www.the4cornerspubmd.com/covid-19 | Pizza | Restaurant | Donate a cheese pizza to first responders, medical workers, and other essential local businesses. Call the pub at 301-593-2900 and say you want to donate a pizza. It is $15. | |
| Feed Sibley Hospital Medical Staff | Donate Now | https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/sibley-memorial-hospital/ways-to-give/coronavirus-supplies.html | Meal | Hospital | You can help feed the Sibley Hospital’s medical staff in Washington, D.C. through their Feed the Front Lines portal. Donations will provide meals to staff and may be used for other COVID-19 related support as needed. |
| Send Breakfast & Coffee from Bethesda Bagels | https://www.bethesdabagels.com/ | Breakfast | Restaurant | One of DMV’s best bagel chains, Bethesda Bagels is gathering donations to help feed medical staff. They will send delicious breakfast and lunch with coffee to the local hospitals. Your donation will go toward helping feed medical staff and putting restaurant workers back to work. | |
| Send Meals to Shady Grove Hospital | Donate Now | https://dawsonsmarket.com/ | Meal | Restaurant | Dawson’s Market organic store in Rockville Town Center takes up donations to deliver 500+ box meals to the doctors and nurses at Shady Grove Hospital and their affiliates. Each boxed meal includes a sandwich or wrap, a healthy side, a cookie, and a drink. The market will work with a hospital to make sure to accommodate various dietary restrictions. |
| Send Pizza Pie from &Pizza | Donate Now | https://order.andpizza.com/ | Pizza | Restaurant | The popular D.C.-based fast-casual pizza chain &Pizza teamed up with Citi Bank to start Hero Kitchen. This effort is dedicated toward feeding front like medical staff battling COVID-19 nationwide. Your donation of $10 or more will feed several hungry people and they will send the pies where they are needed. |
| Meals for Hospital Staff from PLNT Burger | Donate Now | http://www.plntburger.com | Meal | Restaurant | One of our favorite fast-casual vegan burger places in Silver Spring is running a special with every PLNTY Meal (burger, sides, and drink) sold, they will donate another to feed local hospital staff. You can place a donation toward meals for medical staff through Venmo. In addition, to pick up, you can order delivery apps |
| Salads & Sandwiches from Sweetgreen Outpost | Donate Now | https://outpost.sweetgreen.com/ | Salads | Restaurant | A local fast-casual restaurant chain sends healthy fresh meals like salads, sandwiches, sides, and desserts to the medical front line staff in the D.C. metro area. Your donation will go toward keeping their staff working and ensuring the medical staff is fed with healthy meals. |
| Breakfast & Brunch from Original Pancake House | https://www.ophrestaurants.com/locations | Breakfast | Restaurant | A popular DMV breakfast and pancake chain are collecting donations with the "Pay It Forward" program from $10 to $250 amounts. | |
| Potomac Pizza to Help the Front Line Workers | Donate Now | https://www.gofundme.com/f/potomac-pizza-to-help-the-front-line-workers | Pizza | Restaurant | A local pizza chain with several locations in the DVM region raising donations through a Gofundme campaign. So far they have gathered over $15,000 in donations from people and several local organizations. |