Shniderman has been executive director of Food & Friends for almost 16 years. He is a medically-oriented social worker who has been involved in work with HIV/AIDS since the 1980s. Food & Friends is partnering with 140 Washington-area restaurants Thursday for their 15th annual Dining Out for Life event. What is the Dining Out for Life event?
Thursday, March 10, for lunch at many restaurants and dinner at 140 restaurants in D.C., Maryland and Virginia. This is a wonderful event because everybody can participate in it. It has a price point of the diners’ choosing. You can go to the restaurant that charges modestly for their meals, or high-end restaurants. We have restaurants at every price point. Each of these 140 restaurants are donating 20 percent to 110 percent of the diners’ bill to Food & Friends. You can log onto foodandfriends.org, and there’s a link to the 140 restaurants and what percentage of the check is being donated to Food & Friends. It’s easy — you can have a good meal and do a good deed all at the same time.
What does Food & Friends do?
It was founded in 1988 in D.C., and since that founding we have prepared in our facility and delivered more than 13 million meals to more than 20,000 children and adults living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses. We provide home-delivered meals without charge to children and adults living in D.C. and 14 counties in Maryland and Virginia. We also provide nutrition counseling from licensed community dieticians who work for us.
Craig Shinderman
Advanced neurological illnesses such as AOS, advanced Alzheimer’s, advanced Parkinson’s, certain heart and circulatory illnesses. We provide 11 different menus that are specific to the medical and nutritional needs of the people we’re helping. – Erica Redmond
