When it comes to playing a role in eradicating food insecurity, DoorDash is doing more than walking the talk: through its non-profit arm Project DASH, it’s often driving the discussion, most recently with a $2,500 Project Dash Impact Grant to Organic Soup Kitchen in Santa Barbara.
The Organic Soup Kitchen of Santa Barbara provides nutritional meals to low-income families, seniors, and those with chronic illnesses. It is using the grant money to establish a new program allowing it be the first area organization to provide medically tailored meals to CenCal Health members. Anybody that has CenCal health insurance can call Organic Soup Kitchen and choose from 24 different soup meals, which are complete and balanced meals, delivered to their doorstep. It will be the first area organization to provide medically supported meals to Santa Barbara residents in this way.
Since 2018, food banks, food pantries, and community organizations have partnered with Project DASH to deliver food and essential items to people experiencing food insecurity. So far it has enabled the delivery of more than 6 million deliveries of more than 100 million meals, including more than 49 million meals delivered to census tracts with a higher rate of people with disabilities than the national average and more than 34 million meals delivered to census tracts with a higher rate of seniors than the national average.
