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While health care workers at Boulder Community Health and across Boulder County are battling COVID-19, local independent restaurants are suffering from the devastating economic impact of the virus.
We are members of the Boulder community who are doing something to support both frontline health care workers and local independent restaurants.
We’ve created a program that lets the community donate meals from local restaurants to health care workers on the frontlines. Health care workers get a nourishing meal, and local restaurants get badly needed business to keep running and keep staff employed.
We’ve already raised $200,000 to kickstart the program from Brad Feld and Amy Batchelor, Dan and Cindy Caruso, John Goldsmith, and an anonymous local family foundation. This covers the first 30 days of meals for the hospital but we need more help. Our goal is to raise at least an additional $200,000 from the Boulder community to keep meals flowing from local restaurants to BCH during this critical period.
We’ve partnered with Boulder Community Health and several local restaurants including Salt, Big Red F Restaurant Group, Kitchen Next Door, Japango, Blackbelly/Santo, and Community Kitchen Table to get this off the ground. The food services partner at the hospital, BCH Food Services, has generously offered their trained staff and facilities to help receive, distribute, and store the meals delivered by the restaurants.
Once we get this program off the ground, in the coming weeks we’ll look at expanding further across Boulder County to support other health care workers as funding allows and also add to the list of local restaurants participating in the program.
To all the health care workers at BCH Foothills Hospital and everywhere on the frontlines in Boulder County, we want you to know that while you’re caring for us, the community also cares about you.
With hope, love, and gratitude,
The Feed the Frontlines Boulder team
- Vikas Reddy, BCH Foundation Board Member and Co-Founder of Occipital
- Kyle Judah, Exec Director of Entrepreneurship, CU Boulder College of Engineering
- Erin Pommer, Brand Director of Frasca Hospitality Group
- Amy Batchelor, BCH Foundation Board Member and Managing Director of the Anchor Point Foundation
- Callie Sumlin, PR & Marketing Manager at Big Red F Restaurant Group
- Courtney Walsh, Office of Kimbal Musk
- Austin Braun, Social & Digital Media Strategist
- Greg Lyons, Product Manager at Twitter Boulder
- John Goldsmith, Venture Investor, Corporate Director and Advisor
- Bryan Birsic, Cofounder and Board Member of Wunder Capital
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