Nonprofits are struggling to keep up with unprecedented need
COVID-19 dealt a devastating blow to the restaurant industry. In the first weeks state governments began enacting social distancing restrictions, dining rooms shut down, putting millions of restaurant employees out of work. With government aid still an open question, it was immediately clear that both workers and restaurant owners would need financial help from other sources to get through this indefinite period of time.
Just days after establishing funds to aid an ailing restaurant industry, nonprofits and trade associations are overwhelmed. For some of these organizations, providing financial aid to individuals and businesses is a first-time endeavor with natural growing pains.
ROC has already begun sending out sums between $100 and $300 via Paypal to restaurant workers who applied for relief, a more complicated and time-consuming process than anticipated.
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