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Help Toast Fight Childhood Hunger this Summer

For the millions of kids in the U.S. who rely on school meals, summer can be the hungriest time of year. In fact, only 13% of children receiving free or reduced-price meals during the school year have access to them during the summer. 

With a history of donating meals, dollars, and time, the restaurant industry is no stranger to driving impact around the issue of hunger; after all, its shared purpose is to feed families and individuals in our communities.

That’s why, this June, Toast kicked off our renewed commitment to address food insecurity with a bold, summer campaign, rallying our customers through point-of-sale fundraising, donations (with Toast matching), and referral-driven giving to help provide meals to kids nationwide. 

Alongside our nonprofit partner, No Kid Hungry, the End Summer Hunger campaign turns every customer and every guest into a hunger-fighting changemaker. It’s about helping to provide meals for kids experiencing hunger today and supporting systemic solutions to prevent it tomorrow. Learn more about Toast’s commitment to hunger relief in the press release here. 


How can you partner with Toast to fight summer hunger?

Refer & Feed

For every referral submitted during our Summer Referral Campaign, Toast will donate $5 to No Kid Hungry (up to $25,000) to help provide meals for kids during the hungriest time of the year. 

Submit your referrals here

Fundraise with Toast 

This July, through the Toast Fundraising feature, Toast.org will match* guest contributions to No Kid Hungry to help the fight against childhood hunger. Turn on Toast Fundraising in your restaurant and we’ll double your impact (up to $50,000), making it easy for both you and your guests to support children facing hunger. Hear how Diesel Cafe in Somerville, MA, used Fundraising to give back to their community.

Learn how to set up Fundraising here

Simple steps to set up Fundraising:

  1. Log in to Toast Web and select “Marketing”, then “Fundraising”
  2. In the Active Campaign section, select “Create new campaign”
  3. Use the Nonprofit/Charity option and select “SHARE OUR STRENGTH INC”
  4. Choose your campaign type and enter the necessary information, then select “continue”
  5. Select your Collection Type (round up or flat donation) and where you want the prompt to appear: either on-premise, Toast online ordering, kiosk or all
  6. In the final setup step, you can preview your fundraising campaign before it goes live

Toolkit to Promote Fundraising to your Guests

Want to get the word out to your guests that you are raising funds to fight summer hunger? We have a few tools that can help make that easy.

  1. Use this pre-made email template in Toast Marketing
  2. Or, print this out to put in check presenters or post by your POS 

* Matching contributions will be made through Toast.Org’s Donor Advised Fund at Fidelity Charitable and will be paid by a grant recommended by Toast.Org. Fidelity Charitable retains final authority to issue all grants made pursuant to recommendations by Toast.org. 

** Note: Toast Fundraising is not currently available to California-based restaurants as we work on product updates.

*** These funds are subject to a 2.75% disbursement fee by Benevity that will be deducted from the fundraising total for your campaign.