Taking the Kids: Let's hear it for moms everywhere (grandmas, too!)
The hospitality industry is helping with everything from free flights and rooms for health care workers to meals for children who had relied on free school lunches, but it's not enough. That's where your Mother's Day gift can make a difference. Match your gift with a vacation memory.
Remember congratulating your mom for finding that amazing local pizza place on your last vacation? Pizza vs Pandemicis feeding frontline workers and helping independent pizzerias by coordinating large orders with independent pizzerias.
How about the hotel housekeepers who would always leave extra towels and soap? Another Round Another Rally provides emergency aid for hospitality workers.
Remember the time you had to rush to an urgent care center or an ER on vacation? Donate PPEis a fund designed to provide personal protective equipment in hospitals where the surge in cases has depleted supplies for healthcare workers
That super-nice waitress who kept joking with the kids? The bartender who created bespoke cocktails for your 20-somethings? The One Fair Wage Emergency Fund targets restaurant workers, gig workers and other hourly workers who are facing sudden and unprecedented hardship; the Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation distributes funds to workers and restaurants.
If there is a specific destination that means a lot to your family, donate to their local food pantry (they are facing unprecedented demand). Check with the local chamber of commerce to see where a donation might me most needed.
The moms in your life are guaranteed to be delighted. And you get a pat on the back too.
Besides, there's always time for that fancy brunch -- when this is over.
Virtual hugs all around!
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(For more Taking the Kids, visit www.takingthekids.com and also follow "taking the kids" on www.twitter.com, Facebook and Instagram where Eileen Ogintz welcomes your questions and comments. The Kid's Guide to Philadelphia, the 13th in the kid's guide series, will be out this spring.)
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