These Celebrities Have Donated To Food Organizations During The Coronavirus Pandemic (So Far)

Several of your favorite celebs are continuing to be their stellar selves by donating money to support nonprofits dedicated to feeding people in need during the coronavirus pandemic. As if you didn’t need another reason to love them (and follow suit), here are all of the celebrities helping out food organizations right now.

Tyler Perry

Tyler Perry gave back to the city of Atlanta this week when he gifted 1,000 $50 Kroger gift cards to people in need in the community. This isn’t the first time during the pandemic the actor and director has done his part. On April 8, he paid for the groceries of all shoppers during senior hours at 44 Kroger supermarkets in the Atlanta area and 29 Winn-Dixies across Louisiana.

The Rock

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson helped to donate 700,000 bottles of Voss water to healthcare workers across the country who are on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Us Weekly.

Colin Kaepernick

Impossible Foods has teamed up with Colin Kaepernick and Know Your Rights Camp and is on track to distribute more than 1 million meals in 2020. The partnership began on July 9 in San Francisco and the company will donate food to additional Know Your Rights Camp engagements in Los Angeles and New York, as well as other cities that are yet to be announced.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

IRL buddies Lin-Manuel Miranda and José Andrés teamed up with Coca-Cola to put together this huge initiative: Coke is donating $1 million to José’s World Central Kitchen and LMM recounted some amazing Hamilton memories to help promote it all. The money will ultimately yield 100,000 meals and will help “150 local restaurants in communities hit hardest by COVID-19 to rehire up to 1,400 employees. ”

Lady Gaga

The star teamed up with Postmates to donate up to $100,000 to World Central Kitchen. For every order made on Postmates from May 29 until May 31, $1 went directly to World Central Kitchen until they reached $100,000.

Usher

Usher recently partnered up with food company Veganaire to donate meals to families and shelters in Atlanta affected by COVID-19. The 2,000 donated meals included vegan items made with produce from local businesses and featured plant-based alternatives of meatballs, lasanga, meatloaf, and more.

Kanye West

Kanye West has sponsored the Dream Center in Los Angeles, helping them to provide 300,000 meals to people in the area, according to Fox News. The organization credited Kanye’s donation as what abled them to provide meal delivery to seniors.

Tan France

Tan France has been donating to Frontline Foods, an organization that’s supporting local restaurants and frontline workers by delivering meals to hospitals. Frontline Foods is feeding healthcare providers and helping local restaurants in 38 cities stay afloat.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The man, the myth, the legend teamed up with Buca di Beppo to donate 1,000 meals to the Keck USC Medical Center in Los Angeles to help feed their first responders.Additionally, The Terminator star’s non-profit organization After-School All-Stars normally offers after-school activities for kids. In collaboration with Tik Tok, it now helps deliver food to families in need.

Rachael Ray

The TV chef is donating $4 million through The Rachael Ray Foundation and The Yum-o! Organization. Half will be donated to food and nutritional programs for kids and families, while the other half will go to animal welfare organizations.

Jeff Bezos

The Amazon CEO announced on Instagram that he is gifting $100 million to Feeding America “to support those on the front lines at our nation’s food banks and those who are relying on them for food” during this time.

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah is donating $10 million to COVID-19 relief efforts, and $1 million of that will go to America’s Food Fund. The fund aims to help feed local communities during this time. The other $9 million will go to other organizations Oprah loves like Minnie’s Food Pantry in Plano, Texas.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio is helping launch America’s Food Fund, an organization that aims to help low-income families, the elderly, individuals facing job challenges, and children who rely on school lunch programs to get meals. America’s Food Fund has already raised $12 million.

Jimmy Fallon

The late-night host announced on Instagram that his family donated to Feeding America in an effort to help the world’s most vulnerable populations. He encouraged others who are able to do the same because “any donation is GIANT.”

Kristin Bell

Kristin Bell donated $150,007.96–to be exact–to No Kid Hungry. What’s with the extra $7.96? “When my kids overheard me making the donation, they asked if they could also donate the money from their piggy bank,” she wrote on Instagram. “I couldn’t have been prouder to add that extra and important 7 dollars and 96 cents.”

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds

Everyone’s favorite power couple Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds decided to donate $1 million split between Feeding America and Food Banks Canada to help older adults and low income families who are impacted by COVID-19. Ryan is also donating 30 percent of Aviation gin proceeds to bartenders who are out of work.

Justin Timberlake

Justin Timberlake said on Twitter that he donated to Mid-South Food Bank, an organization in his hometown that provides food to families in the mid-South. “Start small and support your local communities by getting food out to those in need,” he said in the post.

Amy Adams and Jennifer Garner

The duo teamed up to raise funds for Save the Children and No Kid Hungry to “shine a spotlight on kids across the country who need our help and support during this difficult time,” Amy Adams wrote in an Instagram post.

Rihanna

Riri’s education and emergency relief non-profit, the Clara Lionel Foundation, donated $5 million across multiple organizations fighting COVID-19–including Feeding America.

JJ Watt and Kealia Ohai

JJ Watt and his Wife Kealia Ohai provided over one million meals to those in need during this time with a $350,000 donation to Houston Food Bank, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

Ciara and Russell Wilson

To support their community in Seattle, Ciara and Russell Wilson donated 1 million meals to Seattle’s Food Lifeline. “Rally with us and support your local food bank @FeedingAmerica,” they wrote in an Instagram post. “We can all make a difference together.”

Eric Stonestreet

The Modern Family star shared on Twitter that he donated 200,000 meals to the food bank Harvesters in Kansas City. “I’m only posting this to maybe motivate you to do what you can, when you can, if you can, to help vulnerable families in our community during this time,” he wrote in the tweet.

Stephen and Ayesha Curry

Steph Curry and his wife Ayesha announced on social media that their Eat.Learn.Play. Foundation is donating to the Alameda County Community Food Bank to help “the 18,000+ kids that rely on school for 2+ meals daily” in Oakland.

Vanessa Hudgens

The former Disney actress threw her support behind Feeding America with a donation to help the immense demand on food banks. “Let’s help each other out rather than freaking the f**k out. Kk?” she wrote in an Instagram post.

Brad Paisley

The country singer runs a year-round, volunteer-operated free grocery store that is “mobilizing delivery of a week’s groceries to our elderly neighbors in Edgehill and Berry Hill on Wednesdays/Thursdays,” he shared in an Instagram post.

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