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Saint City Culinary Foundation founder Joel Rivas speaks to a group. nonprofit that provides mental health services to hospitality workers, has closed its doors.
Joel Rivas launched San Antonio-based Saint City in 2017 to assist people in the food and beverage industry, many of whom don't have access to traditional health insurance options. However, he told the“The number of people that needed help was growing immensely as our name became more popular on a national level, [but] the amount of funds being raised was actually getting smaller," said Rivas, who has a background in restaurants, bars and healthcare business development.
"A lot of donors, in general, are reactionary givers. So when things like Ukraine happened, or abortion access being limited, a lot of people that usually donate to us redirected those funds to those other worthy causes. An organization like Planned Parenthood, where the CEO makes $1.2 million a year, if somebody redirects their $10 a month away from that organization, it doesn't make that huge of a difference. But for smaller nonprofits like ours, it does. It makes a huge difference.
Corporate donors have also tightened their belts as they gear up for a possible recession, Rivas also said. Plus, a growing number of nonprofits serving hospitality workers created more places for donor dollars to go. “In 2017, there were only three organizations in the U.S. that were doing what we were doing in terms of mental health for the food and beverage industry," Rivas said."During the pandemic, several more sprung up. Those organizations are all doing amazing work, but competing for those funds, from corporate givers and things like that, became a lot tougher.”
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