04/29/2021
The Woods Lodge would be honored if you would consider nominating us for Seven Days' "Pandemic All Stars" in the category:
"Which Vermont business pivoted the most to serve a greater good?"
Here's why:
Back in March of 2020, when things ground to a halt for the hospitality business, The Woods Lodge had to reinvent itself, or pivot, you could say, just to stay afloat. Instead of catering parties and hosting meetings and events, we began offering a weekly menu of meals-to-go for pick-up and delivery.
But, we knew there were many in our community who could not afford to pay for this type of service (an idea reinforced by the long lines of cars that waited for food at the airports), so we appealed to our customer base to help us feed those in need.
Through that initiative, we were able to raise the funds needed to pay for the provisions and supplies, and we volunteered our time, to provide over 3,000 individually packaged, heat and eat meals, (100 meals weekly), to the Northfield Food Shelf (CERV), helping them meet the food insecurity crisis in Central Vermont, head-on.
In early September, The Woods Lodge then joined the Skinny Pancake in its fight against hunger during this pandemic, by becoming a vendor for the Vermont Everyone Eats program, and since then , we have been serving daily meals to people in Montpelier, Northfield and the surrounding areas, in addition to our weekly menu.
We did not do any of this for publicity, but rather, to keep our business alive, and help our community at the same time -- but this opportunity has arisen to be recognized for what we have done, (and are still doing), and we hope you'll take a moment to nominate us.
https://sevendays.secondstreetapp.com/Pandemic-All-Stars/gallery/?group=382271
Thank you for supporting us and Vermont Everyone Eats. The program (as of today) has served 1 MILLION MEALS!!!
Check it out now!