You are cordially invited to dine out and help end HIV! Dining Out For Life 2019 is on Thursday, April 25. On that day, over 100 restaurants in WNC will donate 20% of their gross sales to HIV Prevention & Care.
You can do your part by dining out for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or dessert. Check out the 2019 Participating Restaurants below!
Thousands of people in WNC are living with HIV, and many of them do not know their status. WNCAP helps our local community access HIV Prevention tools, including PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) a daily pill to help prevent HIV. WNCAP also helps people living with HIV engage with medical care so that their viral load can become undetectable, creating effectively zero risk of transmitting HIV sexually. Resources generated by Dining Out For Life help people survive and thrive in a world where there remains ample stigma surrounding HIV.
Volunteering to be a DOFL Ambassador is a fun and interesting way of giving back to your community. Ambassadors fill their assigned restaurant with family, friends, and co-workers, and encourage diners to enter a raffle for three great prizes – and perhaps give a little extra to HIV Prevention & Care. If you’re interested in becoming an Ambassador, email Chris at wncapvolunteer@wncap.org or call (828) 252-7489.
Dining Out For Life® is an annual fundraising event involving the generous participation of volunteers, corporate sponsors and restaurants. The concept is simple: Restaurants donate a generous percent of their sales to a local HIV service organization, and the local HIV service organization fills participating restaurants with diners. Participating is even easier: locate a Dining Out For Life event in a city near you, find a restaurant from the list of participating locations, and on that city’s event date: Dine Out to End HIV.
In 2018, more than 50 local HIV service organizations partner with 3,000 participating restaurants, 3,000 volunteers, and 300,000+ diners to raise an astonishing $4.1 million for people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States and Canada. Best part? All funds raised through a city’s Dining Out For Life event stay in that city to provide help and hope to people living with or impacted by HIV/AIDS.
You can participate too! Find out if your city participates in Dining Out For Life by clicking on the interactive map on the homepage.
If you are interested in local or national partnership opportunities, please email us.
Want to learn more about bringing Dining Out For Life to your city? Email us for information.
