DALLAS (1080 KRLD) - What started as a group of friends giving back to the community has grown into a full-fledged non-profit, and it's spreading goodwill like wildfire.
Feed the Front Line was created three weeks ago with two goals: To help local restaurants and to help hospital workers in DFW and Houston.
The non-profit raises money online, then buys thousands of meals from restaurants and delivers them to thousands of health care workers.
"Since we launched, we've raised nearly $400,000 across Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston," said Jacqueline Gottuso, the 23-year-old VP of Feed the Front Line. "We've been able to deliver over 10,000 meals to front line health care workers."
Gottuso says the non-profit had humble beginnings, but the support of the community (in just three weeks) has made it wildly successful. So successful, in fact, that it's now expanding nation-wide.
Feed the Front Line is opening additional branches in Nashville, Charlotte, Atlanta, and Chicago.
When donating on the non-profit's website (PLEASE LINK WEBSITE: https://ftfltexas.org/mission) you can choose which city to support.
"We started with just the really humble goal with trying to help as many people as we could," Gottuso said. "There are still so many health care workers that we wish we could get meals to, and there are still so many restaurants that we wish we could partner with. It kind of feels like an endless mission."
