Frontline Foods Fuels the
Fight Against COVID-19
Frontline Foods
delivers meals from
local restaurants
to our health
care heroes.
BY JENNIFER BROZAK
While health care workers are caring for patients on the front lines of the
COVID-19 pandemic, one community organization wants to make sure
that hospital employees are being cared for, too—all while supporting
local restaurants that have been impacted by state shelter-in-place measures.
In Pittsburgh and in cities throughout the country, this call is being answered
by Frontline Foods, a national organization dedicated to supporting health care
workers at local hospitals by partnering with local restaurants.
In this region, the effort is being championed by Anne Kelly, the city lead for
Frontline’s Pittsburgh chapter. A California native and a producer of large-scale
events for corporate clients, Kelly moved to Pittsburgh in February, just before
the pandemic began to spread across the country. With the project that she had
been working on—the Tokyo Olympics—postponed, she suddenly found herself
with unexpected time on her hands. She reached out to friends back in San
Francisco, and learned of an effort to deliver pizza to a pediatric nurse at UCSF.
Through donations from the community, the pizza shop could prepare and
deliver pizzas to health care workers.
“As I was coordinating that for people who were 2,500 miles away, it got me
wondering if anyone was organizing something like that in Pittsburgh,” Kelly
explains. “At the time, the answer seemed to be no, so I emailed the 11 people I
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