City of Alameda launches Feed Alameda campaign
Published on January 11, 2021
City of Alameda launches Feed Alameda campaign to feed our most vulnerable residents & support struggling local restaurants
The City of Alameda is launching Feed Alameda, a new campaign that expands on the faith-based Dine and Connect Program by feeding the most vulnerable members of our community while supporting local restaurants impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Starting January 20, 2021, the program will pay local restaurants to provide 90 meals per week to Alameda’s homeless individuals, women and children at Midway Shelter, residents of the FEMA trailers, and those who use the safe overnight parking areas at Alameda Point.
City funding will underwrite the first 11 weeks of meals and a GoFundMe campaign will allow the community to extend this program through the difficult months ahead. Sponsors to date include the Alameda Rotary, Alameda Police Officers Association, Alameda Chamber of Commerce, and Alameda Firefighter’s Local 689. Many thanks to the Alameda Point Collaborative for being the fiscal sponsor of Feed Alameda. All donations are tax deductible.
Link to community campaign: www.gofundme.com/f/feed-alameda
“COVID-19 has been especially hard on our most vulnerable community members and our restaurants, so we modeled this program on the National Restaurant Association’s ‘Let Restaurants Do the Cooking’ campaign that I learned about on a conference call with other U.S. Mayors,” stated Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft. “Please be as generous as you can! Your donations will go directly to purchase hot meals that are delivered to people in need.”
Volunteers are also needed to help with meal distribution. Please sign-up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/9040F4AADA628ABFD0-alameda2.
“On behalf of the volunteers and site coordinators for Dine and Connect, I express our gratitude for this opportunity to collaborate with the City and local restaurants in providing nourishing meals to our unhoused brothers and sisters here in Alameda,” says Sister Patricia Nagle, lead coordinator of the Dine and Connect Program.
The City will pay each participating restaurant $25 per meal for 90 meals (chain restaurants are excluded). Meals must be hot, nutritious, and low in sodium, with a fruit and vegetable and a main course.
Interested restaurants can apply here and will be selected in a randomized lottery:
https://cityofalameda.submittable.com/submit/2f7c436f-653a-4507-867e-646d24a00d59/local-restaurant-meal-program.
Click here for additional information about the program: https://www.alamedaca.gov/feedalameda.
For more information about Feed Alameda, please contact Lois Butler, Economic Development Manager, at 510-747-6894.