Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg and her fiancé Tom Bernthal have raised a $7 million emergency COVID-19 fund for a food bank in Silicon Valley
“People don’t have paychecks, which means they can’t buy food,” says Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sandberg, who is worth $1.5 billion byestimate. “I think people really are starting to think not just about the immediate health issues, but also the very immediate kind of critical needs and issues that this represents.”, a food bank, serves more than 250,000 people every month. Sandberg has been volunteering there for eight years.
Sandberg and Bernthal got the idea to launch an emergency fund four days ago while stocking up on groceries. They called Second Harvest that afternoon and raised most of the money by Friday morning. Currently, Second Harvest is also considering a grab-and-go process to provide more meals to children who typically depend on school lunches. The couple is now reaching out to their friends across the country to run food drives for their local food banks. So far, COVID-19 has topped 4,400 cases and is tied to 80 deaths in the U.S. with the numbers predicted to mushroom over the coming days.
“You know, this may be one of the defining moments of our lifetime, could be a defining moment in a century,” Sandberg says. “But I have to believe that if that happens and as that happens, people are going to step up to equal the challenge in front of us.”
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