Over 100 volunteers, 65 business partners (restaurants/coffee shops/wineries/sweet shops), numerous Food For Thought staff and thousands of community members came together to make the 23rd Annual Dining Out For Life Sonoma County a huge success on Thursday, December 5, 2024. Over $90,000 was raised in individual donations and restaurant donations are still being counted Thank you to everyone who participated!
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“We participate because this event means so much to so many. The love and gratitude we see from our patrons makes it all worth it.“
Food For Thought provides free comprehensive, life-sustaining nutrition services to people living with serious medical conditions and/or at risk of malnutrition and nutrition insecurity, including cancer, HIV, heart disease, kidney disease, pulmonary disease, diabetes, and pregnancy. With a core philosophy of healing through food and compassion, our medically tailored nutrition programs improve health outcomes, advance health equity, strengthen our regional healthcare safety net, and promote a “food is medicine” culture throughout Sonoma County.
Do you live outside of Sonoma County?
Anyone can support Food For Thought’s Dining Out For Life event online! Check out our current event details: FFTfoodbank.org/DOFL
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.
Each year, more than 50 local HIV service organizations partner with 2,400+ participating restaurants, 4,100+ volunteers, and 300,000+ diners to raise over $4.5 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! To find out if your city participates in Dining Out For Life, click on the interactive map on the homepage.
If you want to learn more about bringing Dining Out For Life to your city or are interested in local or national partnership opportunities, please contact our Association Manager, Danielle Wennerstrom, at info@diningoutforlife.com. Please include your city and state/province when emailing. Thank you.
