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Small Businesses, Big Impact: 5 Companies That are Helping Our Frontliners
From fashion designers and restaurateurs to events planners, small business owners are using their resources to address the shortage of face masks and food to assist healthcare workers and other community members.
Steve’s Poke Bar Feeds Healthcare Workers
Vancouver resident Steven Huynh served poke bowls to frontline workers in hospitals such as Royal Columbian Hospital, Saint Michael Center, and Eagle Ridge Hospital in Canada. During National Nursing Week, two companies sponsored their delivery of 200 bowls to the Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation.
Famous Toastery Helps Fight Hunger
All-day breakfast restaurant Famous Toastery delivered meals to healthcare workers, including those at the Fair Oaks Hospital. They’re also pledging a box lunch for every first responder or frontline healthcare employee upon placing an order with the promo code “Superheroes.”
Atlanta Fashion Designe Bill Halman & Volunteer Sewers Address the Mask Shortage
Bill Halman and several volunteers are creating and distributing masks to doctors and nurses in Atlanta. Healthcare workers can wash and reuse these masks instead of running out of disposable ones. You can donate to their cause on this page.
Donating Meals and Re-hiring Workers
The Fieldtrip restaurant’s efforts to feed healthcare workers not only sustains doctors and nurses; owner Joseph Johnson ended up rehiring seven of his employees so all meals could be prepared and delivered. They’ve delivered free meals to New York Hospitals and city shelters for women and children, such as Harlem Grown. You can donate to their cause here.
A Denver-based Party Planner Cheers Up Healthcare Workers With “Party For One Pep-Up Packs”
The Denver Post shared how the founder of a party planning business, Jaala Sheldon, delivered “Party For One Pep-Up Packs.” Each pack included masks and items treats to uplift their spirits, such as cookies, flowers, candy, soap, and whiskey. The pack’s respective items were donated by other small businesses in Denver, so healthcare workers would get something different every week. The effort has reached 75 healthcare workers in the three weeks from March 25th to April 18th. According to Sheldon, there has been an overwhelming response to the effort. Customers are nominating the healthcare workers who will receive these care packages.
