Bloom Together
Donation protected
Here’s the situation:
Many of the people who have prepared and served us food for years are going hungry.
To date, nearly 8,000,000 cooks, bartenders, housekeepers, and others in the hospitality industry have filed for unemployment across the United States. Meanwhile, as restaurants closed their doors, many local farms lost their biggest customers. As a result, some have been forced to throw away excess food.
It’s a depressing irony, but we’re prepared to help.
How are we going to help:
Bloom is an online platform where anyone can order local food that is often exclusively available to high-end restaurants. We’re opening up our platform to allow out of work cooks, bartenders, and others to have their choice of fresh food from local farms, for free.
We’re raising $8,000 in solidarity with the 8,000,000 people who have been put out of work across the industry. Your donations will be distributed as $50 gift certificates that individuals and families in need can use to shop local food a la carte through Bloom’s online platform. We process, pack, and deliver each order, for free.
Who are we working with:
Our friends at Mess Hall DC have generously offered to provide us space to briefly store food as we pack individual orders. Local farms are providing us food, but you probably already figured that out.
How can you help:
If you are in a position to contribute, donate today. No dollar amount is too small. In these challenging times, every contribution makes someone else’s day a little bit easier.
For example:
- $5 can buy a healthy snack for a server’s kids.
- $25 can buy a few healthy dinners for an immigrant dishwasher
- $50 can buy about a week’s worth of fresh food for a cook and their family
100% of donations provide food for hospitality friends in need.
Click here to learn more about Bloom, and why we’ve decided to take action. In short, Bloom was founded and inspired by restaurants, delicious food, and the loving, hard-working, gritty community dedicated to the Culinary Dark-Arts.
Our sole purpose is to create a community around real, fresh, delicious food, and we have no choice but to support the people who unselfishly built that community for us.
Many of the people who have prepared and served us food for years are going hungry.
To date, nearly 8,000,000 cooks, bartenders, housekeepers, and others in the hospitality industry have filed for unemployment across the United States. Meanwhile, as restaurants closed their doors, many local farms lost their biggest customers. As a result, some have been forced to throw away excess food.
It’s a depressing irony, but we’re prepared to help.
How are we going to help:
Bloom is an online platform where anyone can order local food that is often exclusively available to high-end restaurants. We’re opening up our platform to allow out of work cooks, bartenders, and others to have their choice of fresh food from local farms, for free.
We’re raising $8,000 in solidarity with the 8,000,000 people who have been put out of work across the industry. Your donations will be distributed as $50 gift certificates that individuals and families in need can use to shop local food a la carte through Bloom’s online platform. We process, pack, and deliver each order, for free.
Who are we working with:
Our friends at Mess Hall DC have generously offered to provide us space to briefly store food as we pack individual orders. Local farms are providing us food, but you probably already figured that out.
How can you help:
If you are in a position to contribute, donate today. No dollar amount is too small. In these challenging times, every contribution makes someone else’s day a little bit easier.
For example:
- $5 can buy a healthy snack for a server’s kids.
- $25 can buy a few healthy dinners for an immigrant dishwasher
- $50 can buy about a week’s worth of fresh food for a cook and their family
100% of donations provide food for hospitality friends in need.
Click here to learn more about Bloom, and why we’ve decided to take action. In short, Bloom was founded and inspired by restaurants, delicious food, and the loving, hard-working, gritty community dedicated to the Culinary Dark-Arts.
Our sole purpose is to create a community around real, fresh, delicious food, and we have no choice but to support the people who unselfishly built that community for us.
Co-organizers (2)
Joshua Davis
Organizer
Washington D.C., DC
Jordan Davis
Co-organizer