Partners
Below we feature the companies that are helping us on our mission of inspiring everyone to help feed our unsheltered neighbors. Each group is very important to us as they have offered a variety of assistance and we couldn’t do this without their generous nature and wonderful help.
Current and past meal making hosts
ATHLETA
Athleta makes awesome Women’s Yoga Clothing, Technical Athletic Clothing, and focuses on Athleisure.
You can find out more about Athleta by visiting: athleta.gap.com
Bold
Bold has been a partner in good for the past two years, making hundreds of meals at their virtual events around the country.
CLASSY
Classy is a giving experience platform that enables nonprofits to connect with supporters through online fundraising
You can find out more about Classy by visiting: classy.org
Doximity
Doximity is an online networking service for medical professionals. Launched in 2010, the platform offers its members curated medical news, telehealth tools, and case collaboration.
Eclipse foods
Eclipse makes some of the most amazing vegan ice cream.
With their generous help, we improved the lives of almost 100 unsheltered living on the streets of Oakland for a day.
See our recent newsletter entitled Total Eclipse (foods) of the Heart for a full retelling of the experience. August 2021 Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hCHQB5
You can find out more about Eclipse foods by visiting: eclipsefoods.com
INSTACART
We have been named an Instacart Partner in Good.
Liquidonate
LiquiDonate provides the simplest donation method for retailers, businesses, downsizing organizations, and anyone with excess items. You can find out more about LiquiDonate by visiting: https://liquidonate.com/
Mill
Mill is the first all-inclusive food-recycling service aimed at keeping food out of landfills.
You can find out more about Mill by visiting: https://www.mill.com/
NEURALINK
Neuralink creates breakthrough technology for brain. Neuralink is a team of exceptionally talented people. We are creating the future of brain interfaces: building devices now that will help people with paralysis and inventing new technologies that will expand our abilities, our community, and our world.
You can find out more about Neuralink by visiting: neuralink.com
New Relic
New Relic develops cloud-based software to help website and application owners track the performance of their services.
You can find out more about New Relic by visiting: newrelic.com
Postmates / Uber Eats
Postmates has supported AMWD for several years, making thousands of meals and delivering them to the unsheltered in our communities. We love the contributions they’ve made in the past and look forward to many more going forward into the future.
You may spot some photos around our website with Postmates employees.
Uber Eats provides food delivery to your home or business. You can find out more about Uber Eats by visiting: ubereats.com
Werqwise
Werqwise is a Bay Area-based collaborative workspace provider. They offer truly flexible offices, event space, and on-demand options to fit a variety of needs.
Partners
Bake4Sake
Vedika and her volunteers help bake fresh desserts and donate them directly to shelters in their area. We’ve partnered with them to help get fresh baked desserts sent to our unsheltered neighbors as well. You can learn more by visiting their website: bake4sake.org
Miracle Messages
Miracle Messages is all about getting unsheltered and homeless people connected back to family and relatives that may be able to help. We have partnered with them to connect long lost daughters to fathers and others as we deliver meals on the streets. You can learn more by visiting their website: miraclemessages.org
Vendors we love working with
Bi-Rite Market
We get various bread and fresh/organic produce from this fantastic SF market. You can learn more or order online by visiting their website: www.biritemarket.com
Falletti Foods
You can get all your needed ingredients to make your AMWD sandwiches here. You can learn more or order online by visiting their website: http://fallettifoods.com
Rainbow Grocery
We get various cheese and other organic produce from this fantastic SF market. You can learn more by visiting their website: https://rainbow.coop
Sciabica Family olive oil
Our top choice for California Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) is Sciabica. You can learn more by visiting their website: sunshineinabottle.com
Wise Sons
We get our amazing soft sandwich bread from Wise Sons - also available at BiRite. You can learn more by visiting their website: https://www.wisesonsdeli.com
Groups that have offered discounts and nonprofit resources
1Password
Password madness is finally under control. 1Password helped us create harder passwords and stop reusing easy ones. It helps us share passwords safely with the team, and it helps notify us if there’s any security issues with the passwords we’re currently using.
Visit 1Password.com for more details.
Amazon
Amazon Smile offers 0.5% donations to us when you shop if you choose us as your Amazon Smile nonprofit.
Visit smile.amazon.com for more details and consider picking A Meal With Dignity as your chosen nonprofit.
Benevity
Benevity helps corporations provide matching gifts. We are a recipient on their platform, so if your workplace has a matching gifts program we would greatly appreciate you choosing us! How a matching gift works is you donate to us and your company matches a portion of the gift as well, so your donation goes even farther.
Visit Benevity.com for more details.
CapitalOne
When others wouldn’t offer a company credit card due to our age in operation, Capital One accepted us upon our first application and gave us a generous cash back percentage.
Visit CapitalOne.com for more details.
GiveLively
GiveLively is an organization that helps us process our donations and offers event ticketing services. They have given us these features for free! Their organization helps other nonprofits like ours try to bring in more funds by developing tools and offering them for free. They are supported entirely by a group of generous philanthropists so nonprofits aren’t having to worry about a high monthly charge for various technical tools they would need.
Visit GiveLively.org for more details.
Google has been incredibly generous by helping us create email accounts for our staff, board, and volunteers. They also provide us with shared workspace on Google Drive. They offer quite a lot more assistance as we grow into things like Ad Words, Youtube, and so forth.
Visit Google.com/nonprofits for more details.
Grammarly
Everyone needs a little help with their grammar at times. They provide us with several accounts that our team uses for crafting newsletters, social media posts, outreach emails, and also the website.
Visit Grammarly.com for more details.
MailChimp
Mailchimp helps us out to our audience with beautiful and easy to craft newsletters. They provide us with a good nonprofit discount that helps us reduce our expenses.
Visit Mailchimp.com for more details.
Microsoft
Microsoft has been extremely generous with us and with nonprofits in general. They provide free copies of Microsoft Office to our organization along with a ton of other tools that can help us do our work better.
Visit Microsoft.com/nonprofit for more details.
PayPal
When people donate using PayPal or through our website and choose PayPal as an option, they have provided us with lower merchant fees. Additionally if you use PayPal you can choose us as your NonProfit on the PayPal Giving Fund.
Visit Paypal.com or https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/givingfund/home for more details.
Quickbooks/Intuit
Intuit has offered us an enormous discount on the use of QuickBooks Online through TechSoup.
Visit Quickbooks.com for more details.
SalesForce
Keeping track of everyone is fairly easy when you are working alone, but as soon as you have a team things can get complicated. Salesforce offered a generous number of licenses for our nonprofit to use in order to keep track of all our volunteers, donors, and staff.
Visit Salesforce.com or https://www.salesforce.org/nonprofit/nonprofit-success-pack/ for more details.
Stripe
Stripe helps us accept donations through our website with the help of GiveLively and offers discounted rates. So, whether you decide to donate using PayPal, Credit Card, or even a EFT/Bank transfer, we get the lowest rates so your donation goes even further!
Visit Stripe.com or https://support.stripe.com/questions/fee-discount-for-nonprofit-organizations for more details.
TechSoup
TechSoup is a fantastic resource for any nonprofit! They partner with all the big names to get deals on everything from software to computers and other equipment for nonprofits. Many of the companies on this list like Microsoft, Intuit, and Zoom use TechSoup to help manage their software donations.
Visit TechSoup.org for more details.
Wizdom On Wheels
David from Wizdom On Wheels is a core member of our team and helps with everything from operations, tech help, organization process guidance, and more. They offer us a generous discount on their services and often volunteer time for certain projects like our newsletter and other marketing materials.
Visit Wizdomonwheels.com for more details.
Zoom
Zoom helps us stay connected during this time and coordinate with volunteers and meal making hosts without the hassle of travel.
Visit Zoom.us for more details.