Hot Bread Kitchen | COVID-19 Emergency Relief Effort

Hot Bread Kitchen stands firmly in solidarity with members of New York City’s food and restaurant industry, who face unprecedented challenges as a result of COVID-19.

Hot Bread Kitchen is pivoting our program support to provide the most critical relief that women in the food industry, small business owners, families, and communities need in these challenging and uncertain times. Here’s what we’re doing:

Emergency Stipends

Financial stipends for our workforce program alumni and grants to small business owners to use for rent/utilities, covering payroll, and essential household needs.

Resources

Resources for New York food workers and small business owners as they face challenges applying for unemployment, increased anxiety, child education challenges, and unforeseen gaps in sales, wages, or employment.

Resources
(small business)

Resources (individuals)

Meals for Healthcare Workers

Through June 2020, we supported small food businesses preparing 25,000+ meals for hospital workers across NYC.

2020 Mid-Year Impact Snapshot: A City in Crisis

Hot Bread Kitchen serves communities impacted disproportionately by two emergencies that have been called the dual pandemics: COVID-19 and ongoing systemic racism. This special impact snapshot shares the learnings and initial outcomes from Hot Bread Kitchen’s 2020 relief work.

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Emergency Relief Impact to Date

$260KFunds distributed
25,000Meals served to hospital workers
177Food workers + small business owners supported through stipends and grants

"I feel so lucky and blessed since I met the dynamic team of Hot Bread Kitchen. It is as if I had found the support of my family I left in Africa."

Cynthia, Hot Bread Kitchen Workforce Alumna May 19, 2020

“I’m so extremely humbled with gratitude for being included in your incredible efforts for this stipend. The funds reached my account today and it was literally like a burst of light shone amid this whole ugly process.”

HOT BREAD KITCHEN INCUBATOR MEMBER April 21, 2020

“Knowing that I’ll be able to chip away at some bills now instead of remaining frozen in the fear of it all has made me more grateful than I can possibly express."

HOT BREAD KITCHEN INCUBATOR MEMBER April 21, 2020

"Thank you from the soul. I was very worried because I have the burden of rent, but I have I have received your help and I am sure everything will be okay."

Hot Bread Kitchen Workforce Alumna April 8, 2020

"When I first heard I didn't have a job I was so scared, but then I got the message [about the stipend] from Hot Bread Kitchen, and I thought wow, I have someone to help me, I know I have someone behind me."

Hot Bread Kitchen Workforce Alumna, Laid off March 2020 April 8, 2020