Helping Hearts

Helping Hearts NYC is a campaign created by The Deep End to provide free meals from restaurants to healthcare workers and the people most impacted by COVID-19, while supporting local businesses struggling to survive this pandemic. Thanks to our generous donors from across the country, we have already donated over 25,000 meals since April.

We started with an initial focus on hospital staff and EMS first responders as COVID swamped NYC’s healthcare system. While it may not seem like much, we think a hot meal for our brave healthcare workers helps them feel seen and appreciated, in addition to aiding social distancing since they do not need to leave their facilities to find food.

Through partnership with PSI, the Deep End has the ability to accept tax-deductible donations, plus the increased reach and visibility from their networks.

New York takes care of its own.

Community organizations and non-profit partners: 

Callen Lorde – a well loved healthcare organization in the LGBTQ community, now operating a temporary shelter providing housing and medical treatment to homeless LGBTQ people.

Housing Works – a non-profit organization working to ensure all people living with HIV/AIDS have access to quality housing, healthcare, HIV prevention/treatment, among other lifesaving services.

Bushwick Mutual Aid – a grassroots volunteer network in Bushwick (our home) providing services to our most at risk populations: the elderly, and low income immigrant families who are ineligible for government aid during this pandemic.

Hospital and EMS partners:

Mt. Sinai Beth Israel, Elmhurst Hospital, Brooklyn Hospital, NYU Langone Health, Wyckoff Heights Health Center, Coney Island Hospital, Kings County Hospital, NewYork Presbyterian Columbia, NewYork Presbyterian Cornell, Maimonides Medical Center, Metropolitan Hospital

FDNY EMS (ambulance) stations at: Queens Hospital, Jamaica Hospital, Flushing Hospital, Stations 44 and 45, plus 911 dispatch centers at Metrotech Brooklyn and PSAC II in the Bronx.