Steve & Kate's Dining *IN* for Life Fundraiser

For the past decade, we (Steve, Kate and the kids) have been supporting Dining Out for Life often eating all 3 meals on the day of Dining Out for Life at participating restaurants. Due to COVID-19, Dining out for Life has gone virtual this year and due to the hard impact it has had on restaurants will *NOT* be asking them for financial support. This means that a portion of your meals will *not* go to Dining Out for Life and there will *not* be Ambassadors dropping off donation envelopes at your table. This year *we* are your Ambassadors and this is your donation envelope ;)

How to support Dining IN for Life this year:

💲 Anytime on or before 9/24: Donate on Steve & Kate's page (Donate button above ↑ ) 

🍴 On 9/24, order take-out from a (or many) supporting restaurant(s)

https://diningoutforlifemn.org/

📺 Join the Aliveness Project/Dining Out for Life MN online at a Virtual Dinner Party 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1724915280993704 **(Optional)**

Thank you for your help in supporting this cause.
*Your* Ambassadors,
Steve, Kate and the (mostly all now adult) kids

More info about Dining Out for Life:

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.