In cities across the U.S., people are Venmo-ing their favorite bartenders, servers, and baristas.
It works like this: you click on a city—maybe the one you live in, maybe not—and choose someone’s name from the Google spreadsheet. It could be your favorite bartender down the block, or someone you’ve never met. You send them a few bucks via Venmo, Paypal, or CashApp. And that’s it. It goes directly to the employee, no middlemen involved. Most donations range from $5 to $15, often to strangers.
, an aggregated list of city-specific websites. After he shared the link on Facebook, several people commented to add their own cities. Gibson was one of them. She realized there wasn’t yet a Google spreadsheet for Los Angeles—“I was kind of shocked,” she says—and designed one of her own.is a bit different. It randomly generates one worker’s name to whom you can donate. So if you’re feeling overwhelmed by it all, this might help.
For some of Corrigan’s neighbors in Norfolk, Virginia, the situation is dire. “A lot of these people are literally without food right now,” she says. In response, restaurants have been setting up back-door meals: hot, family-style meals served soup-kitchen style for anyone who wants to drop by.in major cities like L.A., New York, and Chicago. They’re ineligible for unemployment, as well as any government rebates.“That's really concerning to me,” Gibson says.
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