The COVID-19 crisis severely impacted the service industry and put our already at-risk populations in desperate need of meals. In addition, the non-profit organizations that serve so much of this population are experiencing a spike in the need for volunteers to meet the escalating need.
Get Shift Done is a relief fund and initiative launched in North Texas to address both affected service workers who have lost their paychecks and immediate support for the demand of the non-profits, especially with respect to hunger relief. Since then, we have expanded our local efforts and are working to launch Get Shift Done programs in cities nationwide.
We are using the Shiftsmart platform to connect the volunteers, supporters and non-profits to deliver these essential functions all while providing basic incomes and food security for affected children and families. And, by providing a skilled, at-the-ready workforce, we can support the non-profits, school systems and other hunger relief programs with efficient and effective help to meet the surge in demand.
Overall, the combination of three impact measures can bring critical stability to communities. Affected populations, businesses, organizations and non-profits are activated on a local level and empowered to provide services in the communities they call home.
We would like your financial support to bridge this temporary gap for our fellow citizens. You can help by donating to the Get Shift Done Fund for the DMV.
Get Shift Done is connecting the hospitality workforce affected by the COVID-19 virus with local non-profits to serve and provide hunger relief to the Washington DC Region thanks to a partnership with the Greater Washington Community Foundation and Nationals Philanthropies.
Get Shift Done was launched to employ affected hourly workers in the hospitality industry to perform shifts for non-profit organizations and institutions in need during the COVID-19 crisis.
VisitGetShiftDone.org and continue to check back for updates.
Both the non-profits whose volunteers were not coming to work due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak and the hospitality workers who were displaced from their jobs due to the mandatory closing of restaurants.
When less volunteers were coming to work their shifts at food banks and other non-profit agencies dedicated to serving the food insecure, we saw an opportunity of filling those shifts with those from the food service industry and paying them an hourly wage.
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Get Shift Done DMV’s fiscal sponsor is the Greater Washington Community Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit, in partnership with Nationals Philanthropies.
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Yes. In order to participate communities need to have a facility that serves the food insecure and large enough to employ several workers at a time. The community also needs to have funding in place to pay displaced hospitality employees who register to work shifts at the agencies.
We need to work with non-profits who are already accepting food donations, managing the distribution of the food and have facilities large enough to have many workers at a time working shifts.
Details about this are included in our app platform. You can learn more by completing our registration process within the app itself.
We are working individually with non-profits to address their volunteer needs. Shifts are assigned after going through our onboarding process.
We prefer to have non-profits that are already serving the food insecure and have a need for more volunteers to meet the number of meals required for their community.
We are supporting workers from the hospitality industry.
Details about this are included in our app platform. You can learn more by completing our registration process within the app itself.
After you register in our app, you are part of the system and every step and feature of the process is handled from there.
We have displaced workers who are using public transportation to get to participating Food Banks to work shifts. If you do not have a vehicle, you will not be matched to deliver meals.
Register your furloughed employees as one group through our app. The app can be found here.
