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8000 and counting

May 17, 2020

Feed the Fight Boston is closing in on 8,000 servings to frontline healthcare workers, and we may break 9,000 this week!  We're on the ground, listening and learning about where the needs are greatest. This coming week, two-thirds of our deliveries will go to nursing homes rather than hospitals or clinics, and the recipeints will range from the doctors and nurses whose contributions we all appreciate to the orderlies, janitors and many other behind-the-scenes workers who also take on personal risk, work long hours and suffer from lack of resources in taking care of and helping protect the elderly in their facilities.

Please support Feed the Fight Boston as we continue to monitor and respond to our community's needs.

It's about saving local restaurants and jobs, all while feeding heroes.

May 3, 2020

The Globe got the headline right: it's about putting restaurants to work, preserving businesses, and saving jobs by providing meals to the healthcare frontlines.

Feed the Fight Boston does it all, whether it's snacks for hard-working doctors and nurses at our hospitals, meals for orderlies at clinics, or sandwiches that nursing home workers take home to their families before working a second job. We're on the ground, paying attention to where today's needs are and where tomorrow's will be.

FTFB tackles the hidden frontlines on its one-month birthday

April 27, 2020

From its inception a month ago, Feed the Fight Boston defined itself as a community-based organization, seeking out and serving the community's needs.  We focused on restaurants because of the economic stress covid-19 has placed on them and their economically vulnerable workers. We're still centered on them as one part of our dual mission and, so far, have raised funds to pay for just over 3900 meals. We should all support them as best we can because they are part of the covid-19 frontline and part of an economy that we need working.

The second part of our mission is supporting the heathcare frontline. And its needs are changing. We started with healthcare workers at the major hospitals and the hard-working heroes there who endure long hours and take on unreasonable amounts of personal risk to care for us. Now we find that the needs in the healthcare frontline are often hidden, and they shift, too. Smaller hospitals are in the thick of it now, as are clinics and nursing home. Many of their workers have challenges we don't see so readily; not only do they take significant personal risk and face understaffing, they suffer from poor wages and often the stresses of working multiple jobs.

FTFB is adapting to their needs through openness to the kinds of facilities in our community we support and, by working with each one, understanding and adapting to the needs of their workers. We're still about food. But perhaps the need isn't meals at work; maybe workers need to take it home to their families today, and something else tomorrow. The situation is fluid.

Happy Birthday FTFB

April 27, 2020

They didn't know they were celebrating Feed the Fight Boston's one-month birthday. But they were enjoying a break with ice cream; so we're claiming this as the party for FTFB's one-month birthday. We're glat that we, our donors, Cabots, and this crew could all be part of it.

Boston Globe headlines FTFB's dual mission

April 22, 2020

Big thanks to The Boston Globe, and journalist Gwyneth Burns, for headlining both sides of Feed the Fight Boston's dual  mission!

We crowdsource funding so we can place orders with local restaurants, supporting them and their vulnerable workers economically, and delivering food to healthcare workers fighting coronavirus.

Two different front lines, both important to our communities, and both highly stressed.

5,000 meals and Counting

April 18, 2020

FeedtheFightBoston has crossed the 5,000 meal mark, adding new restaurants from Boston to Grafton, Taunton to Billerica, and new healthcare providers from East Boston and Cambridge and to Lowel and Taunton.

We're also helping out at some nursing homes, now... because we see hard-working healthcare professionals everywhere who need our support and local restairamts near them that need business. 

​Help us help them all!

FeedtheFightBoston is good news!

April 11, 2020

FeedtheFightBoston's rapidly growing impact is good news for everybody! Boston's WCVB TV featured our efforts to raise funds from generous donors to help out stressed local restaurants in greater Boston and nourish the dedicated healthcare workers taking care of us on the COVID-19 frontlines.

People see that we're making a difference!

April 10, 2020

We made it into our senator's newsletter today! Thanks, Senator Creem, for your work and for helping spread the word about ours!

thanks from the medical community, thanks to you!

April 6, 2020

This is what it's supposed to look like: Hard-working healthcare workers feeling appreciated and well-fed, revenue for the restaurants we love and the workers we care about, and the knowledge that all of us, through contributions small and large, made a difference.
 
Thanks to all of you participating and supporting us in this effort!

Check out the video below to see what FTFB looks like at Tufts Medical Center:

One week, one thousand meals

April 3, 2020

Today FTFB had its one-week birthday and... it fed its 1000th healthcare worker!

Rotary club newton joins the fight!

march 31, 2020

Thank you to the Rotary Club of Newton for joining the fight! We are proud partners and look forward to helping our local restaurants and feeding healthcare workers together!

Ellana's kitchen brings over 100 meals to boston medical center

march 31, 2020

Ellana's Kitchen surprised us all with home baked cookies! Thank you for fueling FeedthefightBoston! You helped deliver 100  meals to Boston Medical Center!

Feed the fight kicks off

March 27, 2020

#FeedtheFightBoston kicks off in Newton! We delivered healthy meals from Newton favorite Johnny's Luncheonette to workers at Newton Wellesley hospital today. Thanks to all of you who contributed. It takes a village!! Stay tuned for more opportunities.

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