Dear Friend,

When the COVID-19 Pandemic hit, The COCO Fund set out to provide grants to restaurant and hospitality workers whose livelihoods were turned upside down.

Through generous support from people like you, we were able to give 94 people grants to help get them back on their feet.

These grants were used for things like keeping the lights and heating on, lifesaving prescription medicines, and to feed hungry mouths.

We cannot thank you enough for your tireless support!

To celebrate our success throughout the pandemic, we hosted a panel with restaurant industry experts to share how they felt we could best come out of this pandemic. We learned that the restaurant industry had been set back six years in terms of fair and equitable wages.

Issues such as mental health, retraining staff, unfair pay, lack of training and harassment were all brought up by the panelists. 

The CEO and Co-founder of Another Round Another Rally Amanda Gunderson stated “For every $10 a white male makes in our industry, an African American woman makes $4...I don’t think there’s going to be a time where this inequality doesn’t end without intervention…”

We’ve seen that a need for our grants hasn’t disappeared. They’re needed now more than ever. With our grants, we hope to help restaurant and hospitality workers continue to recover from the pandemic, especially as equality in the restaurant industry has continued to see a decline.

Can you chip in $5, $10, anything, to help restaurant and hospitality workers who were hardest hit by the pandemic? For them, the story isn’t over. They still need our help to recover. 

Thank you for your generosity,

MARCH ON and The COCO Fund