Project C.U.R.E. identifies, solicits, collects, sorts and distributes medical supplies and services according to the imperative needs of the world.

The Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation is an advocacy and action nonprofit created by and for restaurant workers dedicated to making the restaurant industry more hospitable to everyone.

The San Francisco-Marin Food Bank works to end hunger in San Francisco and Marin. Read more about them here.

Slow Food is a global, grassroots organization, founded in 1989 to prevent the disappearance of local food cultures and traditions, counteract the rise of fast life and combat people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from and how our food choices affect the world around us.

Wherever the LEE Initiative identifies a need for more diversity and more equality in the restaurant industry, they find creative and forward-thinking solutions. The LEE Initiative creates small but impactful programs that make a real difference in the lives of the next generation of restaurant industry professionals.