Fort Wayne's Service Industry Needs our help!

Here are links to help our service industry friends in the Fort.

Please give what you can! We're listing any funds we know of, but this is likely not all. If you know of any other places accepting help, let us know! There will be a form below to request a listing on this site. We just ask all requests are relative to Fort Wayne local service industry.
Last Updated: 3/30/2020 11:02PM EST

Food and Beverage Funds

Bravas

Bird and Cleaver

Tolon

Junk Ditch and Grace Kelly

Copper Spoon

Trubble Brewing

Deer Park

Solbird

Hop River

Coney Island

Emergency Fund for our FWCI Staff

Nawa

Dupont Bar and Grill

Help Three Rivers Distilling Co Make Sanitizer

Fortezza Coffee

Bistro Nota

Wayndale Cafe

Summit City Brewerks

Employee Donation Drive

Eddie Merlot's

Deadeye Dicks axe throwing and Bullseye Bar

Pembroke Bakery & Cafe

West Cental Microcreamery

Other Points of Interest Funds

Bar Aid

Double Dragon Arcade

Other ways to help

Not everyone has established a GoFundMe. Below are additional ways to support those not using crowdsharing platforms.

Baker Street, Proximo and Hoppy Gnome

They have their own ways of caring for their staff. If you'd like to help, call and ask to speak to a manager to contribute to their employee hardship account. It's a shared account they've setup to assist their staff in times of need. You can make a direct contribution that will make a difference!

BakerStreet Steakhouse 260-484-3300
The Hoppy Gnome 260-422-0070
Proximo 260-459-6150

Firefly Coffee House

There will be a tip jar at The Health food Shoppe for Firefly employees. Ask a HFS employee for details.

Two-EE's Winery

Two-EE's is donating some of the money made from their to-go wine slushees to employees and they are also splitting the tip pool amongst the employees affected. They are open from 12-6 daily. You don't even have to leave your car, they will bring your order out to you!!

Halal Eats is Donating Meals!

Halal Eats is looking to donate hot meals to healthcare providers and they'd like our help! They will match donations for food 100%! Just give them a call and donate via credit card or stop by with cash. THANK YOU HALAL EATS!

Halal Eats 260-444-5566

*Halal Eats has had to close as of 3/30/2020*

Support our local animal shelters

Area shelters need our support now more than ever! Please reach out to see how you can help!

Fort Wayne Animal Care and Control 260-427-1244
Allen County SPCA 260-744-0454
Hope For Animals 260-420-7729

Baptiste Power Yoga Fort Wayne

They are offering free online classes via Facebook Live. Their virtual yoga class schedule can be found via their facebook page. If you'd like to donate to their teachers, their Venmo account is below. They suggest $10/class but any amount is appreciated

Venmo @BaptistePowerYoga-FW

Helpful Info from Downtown Improvement District

Check out this important information and additional resources provided by the Downtown Improvement District!
https://downtownfortwayne.com/covid19-resources/

Fort Wayne Pet Food Pantry

A message from Fort Wayne Pet Food Pantry: "We provide free pet food for our financially insecure community. We will continue to do so during this time. We invite displaced service industry folks to use our services." THANK YOU FW PET FOOD PANTRY!
https://www.fwpetfoodpantry.com/

Umi Fort Wayne

Did you know Umi is giving out 500 meals EVERY DAY M-F!? No questions asked, they are simply making sure people have good food to eat! Do you need a meal? Can you pledge support to help keep this going!? Please reach out to them and show them how Fort Wayne comes together! THANK YOU UMI!

Umi Fort Wayne 260-203-9975

http://umifortwayne.com/

Who else can we get listed on here?

We are sure there's more out there. We're keeping an eye on social media and will try and update this as soon we see something new pop up. In the meantime, if you know of something we've missed there is a form below to request us to post new funds to our site. Please fill it out and we'll do our best to update this site ASAP.

Get Listed!

Simply submit your Name, Email and Link/URL to your donation site. Or you can include some text with a phone # or email if you prefer. We will only use your name and email for verification or if we need to reach you.

Fort Wayne's Service Industry Needs our help!

We have all eaten out at some point here in our beautiful city. Chances are, you have a memory you cherish that involves a local business here in the Fort. These are good places run by caring people with the BEST employees we've come to know and love.

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Believe that we will get through this together!