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How to Help: Hurricane relief efforts around the city and beyond
With tons of post-Sandy help still needed, we're tracking benefits and collection efforts in Philly and around the region.
How to Help: Hurricane relief efforts around the city and beyond
As efforts to rebound and rebuild continue after Hurricane Sandy devastated the region, there’s no shortage of need. Plenty of organizations and funds—including but certainly not limited to the Red Cross, Red Hook Initiative, and the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund—are looking for any money, goods, time, or elbow grease you can spare.
As you may well have heard by now, the hospitality industry was hit especially hard. While many structures have been damaged beyond repair, loss of inventory and days spent shuttered due to flooding and power outages can also be knock-out blows to restaurant owners and employees alike.
In New York, where so many businesses are clustered in some of the worst-hit areas, the restaurant industry has banded together with benefit dinners (Top Cheftestants including Philly’s Kevin Sbraga and Jen Carroll are throwing one tonight), food trucks rallying to bring food directly to residents and volunteers cleaning up areas cut off from vital resources, businesses like Brewery Ommegang reaching out to fellow breweries unable to operate, and groups like the Restaurant Opportunities Center working overtime to ensure access to crucial emergency aid for embattled restaurant workers.
While many of the groups cited above can use whatever help you can offer, and many champion the direct route of eating out as lavishly and often as possible as affected businesses open back up (Anthony Bourdain tells us to tip big and maybe send a twenty-spot directly back to the dishwasher), there are plenty of ways you can help closer to home, as well.
Click through for a list of ways local industry folks are stepping up. And please help get the word out about other local relief efforts by sharing them in the comments below. We’ll make sure to post or tweet updates as new events roll in.
Jet Wine Bar (1525 South St.) is celebrating their 2nd anniversary tonight; they’ve felt plenty of love from Philadelphians for the past couple of years, and they’re paying it forward by donating $2 of every drink sold tonight to the Red Cross.
On Wed., Nov. 7, Pub and Kitchen (1946 Lombard St.) will host a sort of pop-up of its sister restaurant, The Diving Horse. The seasonal spot was a new addition to the Avalon, NJ hospitality family this year, and while they made it through relatively unscathed, no doubt the destruction faced by neighbors along the Jersey shore was keenly felt by chef Jonny Mac and crew. All proceeds from this week’s benefit will go to the Red Cross. (Check out the menu here.)
This weekend will see a collaborative relief benefit to be hosted by Tattooed Mom (530 South St.). The benefit on Sun., Nov. 11th promises drink specials (like half-price drafts from 5 to 7 p.m.), raffles, a silent auction, and 30% of the night’s sales to benefit Red Cross relief efforts. Check out more details here.
In addition, Reading Terminal Market’s Philbert the pig will be donating all of this month’s contributions to the Red Cross.
Finally, don’t look for Lil Dan’s food truck in its usual spot in Love Park today. He’s brought the truck to Hoboken today to feed and hand out water to residents of the city, who are still without power and lacking access to food, gas, and other necessary supplies.
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