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Restaurants Care | Serving. Supporting. Caring.
Caring for the people at the heart of restaurants Help for F+B Workers Help for Independent Restaurants Get to know Restaurants Care Restaurants Care provides hope and stability to food + beverage workers in California who are in crisis. This fund has helped over 3,000 families find hope during life’s toughest moments. This fund is 100% powered by donations from people like you!
In 2021, Restaurants Care created the Resilience Fund – a special fund to boost independent restaurants. To date, the Resilience Fund has awarded $11 million in grants to 2,087 independent restaurants across California—supporting burger joints, taquerias, bakeries, and more that are the heart of our communities. These funds work together to support and advance those at the heart of California’s food and beverage community.
In 2025, you helped Restaurants Care more than double our typical annual impact—especially in response to the LA Fires, when we mobilized quickly to support the restaurant community in crisis. From providing stable housing for workers to building resilience in independent restaurants, your generosity kept thousands of people afloat. See our impact by the numbers.
Safety-net for CA’s restaurant community Restaurants Care is a nonprofit fund providing stability and hope to California’s food and beverage community. F+B Workers. We provide up to $2,500 directly to F+B workers experiencing illness, injury, natural disaster, or death in the immediate family.
Grants cover basic needs like groceries and rent while people recover from the crisis. We have helped over 3,000 F+B workers and their families since 2017. Independent Restaurants.
We award grants that build resilience among California’s independent restaurants. Grant applications are offered once a year and grants are typically $5,000. Restaurants Care is a program of the California Restaurant Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit that has been serving the community since 1981.
We created a safety-net for food and beverage workers in 2017 and expanded that safety-net to include independent restaurants in 2021. Restaurants Care provides hope and stability to those at the heart of California’s vibrant food and beverage community. Donate to Help a F+B Worker thank you to our food family donors Restaurants Care Champions Make an impact!
Host an event at your restaurant, business or home to support Restaurants Care. Download the Additional Resources PDF for more information about available services. Hang this poster in your kitchen or Back of House to let your employees know about this new resource!
A chef-driven dinner with exciting wine pairings all to celebrate and support our restaurant community! Restaurants Care provides up to $2,500 directly to food and beverage workers facing an unforeseen hardship. Grants help to cover basic living expenses such as rent, food and utilities as someone works through a crisis.
If you are injured, ill, in a natural disaster or experience personal challenges from mental health or substance abuse, Restaurants Care is here to help. If faced with an immediate emergency situation, call 911. If contemplating suicide, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.
Restaurants Care is proud to honor the rich diversity of the foodservice community in California through our programs and services whereby all we serve feel respected and valued regardless of gender, age, race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation or identity, disability or any other bias. To learn more, please contact us at info@restaurantscare. org .
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Food and beverage workers in California experiencing illness, injury, natural disaster, or death in the immediate family. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
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The Fund for Women & Girls Grant Program is sponsored by The Foundation for Enhancing Communities (TFEC). The Fund for Women & Girls, an initiative of TFEC, makes grants to local nonprofit organizations in specific South Central PA counties. The grants support projects that advance the lives of women and girls by providing opportunities to address basic needs, develop economic self-sufficiency, and strengthen health and safety needs.
VGF grants will be used to develop and/or support community-based entities to recruit, manage, and support volunteers. CNCS seeks to fund effective approaches that expand volunteering, strengthen the capacity of volunteer connector organizations to recruit and retain skill-based volunteers, and develop strategies to use volunteers effectively to solve problems. Specifically, the VGF grants will support efforts that expand the capacity of volunteer connector organizations to recruit, manage, support and retain individuals to serve in high quality volunteer assignments.Applicants that receive funding under this Notice may directly carry out the activities supported under the award, or may carry out the activities by making sub-grants to community-based entities, supporting volunteer generation at these entities.). Funding Opportunity Number: AC-05-25-21. Assistance Listing: 94.021. Funding Instrument: G. Category: O. Award Amount: $6.1M total program funding.