Kate Tafelski

“I support the Food for Our Front Lines initiative because during times of crisis a community takes care of each other. Our essential UMB workforce are doing the important job of taking care of our UMB community every day.

“Food for Our Front Lines allows me to express my appreciation by providing these individuals with a meal. Knowing the meals are from local businesses expands the impact of my gift even further by supporting the restaurants in our West Baltimore community that need customers to survive the pandemic.”

— Kate Tafelski, senior program specialist, Office of Philanthropy


Invest in the heroes of the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) while supporting our valued neighbors! Your generous support of UMB's Food for Our Front Lines initiative can help more than 200 UMB employees working on the front lines of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and help support local businesses hit hard by this crisis in West Baltimore.

All gifts will make an impact! Watch the video.

For more information or to make a gift, visit www.umaryland.edu/giving/frontline.

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