Dine IN to End HIV with Elissa!

Please join me in supporting this amazing organization while also supporting local restuarants. I have been volunteering in the kitchen at The Aliveness Project for the last two years. I have met so many amazing people⁠— members, volunteers, and staff. The annual fundraiser, Dining Out For Life, had to be postponed this year due to COVID-19. I've also had to temporarily stop volunteering in-person due to COVID-19. I'm hoping this is a small way I can give back and continue to support the critical need for members to have access to healthy meals and food from the Aliveness food shelf, in addition to all the other support and resources Aliveness provides members.

This year on September 24 Dining Out for Life becomes Dining IN for Life, a dual fundraiser for The Aliveness Project and a way to support their long-time restaurant partners. On or before September 24 please consider making a financial donation through this page to support The Aliveness Project and support your favorite local restaurant. You can find a list of DOFL restaurant partners here.

My goal is to raise $500. If I raise at least $250 I'll buy a $25 gift card to Pizza Lucé (a longtime restuarant partner and a favorite of mine) and randomly select one donor to give it to. If I reach my goal of $500 I'll buy and award an additional two $25 gift cards. Please help me support The Aliveness Project and any local restaurant of your choice!

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Read more from The Aliveness Project:

For over 25 years, Dining Out for Life has been the biggest fundraiser of the year for The Aliveness Project. With your donations and the generous donations of our restaurant partners, we have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to help support essential services for people living with HIV. This year, Dining Out for Life is dining IN. 

COVID-19 has changed our lives over the past few months. We've cancelled gatherings, moved things online, and made sacrifices to try and halt viral spread. Our restaurant partners have been hit especially hard, and this year we will not be asking them for financial support. Your financial support is important now more than ever. The Aliveness Project has continued to serve our nearly 2,000 members. We have adjusted our meals to carry-out and loaded up our members with groceries week in and week out. We have continued to offer case management and dietary care. Your support helps keep these services going in a time of uncertainty. Your support matters!

Dining Out for Life looks a little different this year. While we will not gather in person at our favorite restaurants, we encourage you to gather, virtually. Support our partner restaurants and order take out, then take your conversations online, share a meal over Zoom, show off your homes or pretend you're on that island vacation you missed out on this year. Whatever you choose, give the way you always have. We need you! 

We don't know what next year will look like. We long to once again gather in person and share in the Dining Out for Life we've come to know, but if this year has taught us anything, it has shown us that we will always find ways to come together. The HIV community is strong and we will remain strong, together.