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Death in the Family

Giving Kitchen helps food service workers who have lost a member of their immediate family (parent, grandparent, sibling, grandchild, or child) as well as the families of deceased food service workers.

Giving Kitchen understands that a food service worker in crisis needs assistance as quickly as possible. To speed up the application process, we’ve compiled a list of financial and crisis incident-related documentation to help you complete your application.

Our goal is to remove as many barriers as possible to receiving emergency assistance while maintaining the integrity of our program and protecting the mission of our organization.

Please do not start organizing your application information until after you ask for help.

Necessary Incident Documentation

In order to process your request for assistance, we will need to verify your loss via the following documents:

  • Death certificate
  • Documentation verifying relationship to the deceased
  • Accident report, if applicable
  • Verification of funeral service (for example: funeral program)

Necessary Financial Documentation

In order to provide financial assistance, we will need the following documents:

  • Current pay stub
  • Lease agreement
  • Current utility bill(s): water, gas and electricity; if utilities are bundled with lease agreement, please supply documentation

*We verify employment and incident with your employer.
**Employee must be able to show financial need.

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I needed the help until everything processed. I needed a little window until we could get everything situated.

- Jamil , Lost his mother to illness

Giving Kitchen is a nonprofit organization and is independent from any city, state or federal agency. We will not share your private information, without your permission, ever. We are a professional social service organization, and we treat your private and personal information in a confidential, secure manner that reflects our commitment to client care and best industry practices.

If a person is potentially dangerous to themselves or someone else, Giving Kitchen is legally required to report that information.

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