Hours that got cut, a paycheck that is still weeks away, benefits that restart next month. When rent and the lights take everything, food is what is left, and a private request lets the people who care about your family fill the cupboard.
Free to create and free to send.
Rent comes out first, then the electric bill, and groceries get whatever remains. In a short month, that is nothing. If you need help with groceries, you are already covering everything else and asking for the one thing that ran out.
Asking before the cupboard is empty is a parent's choice to make, not a failure, and it gives the people who love your kids the chance to help.
Andrea's hours were cut at the end of July, and her benefits don't restart until September. She has kept the rent and the utilities paid. What is gone is the grocery money for her and her two kids, and the cupboard is down to the last of it.
She wrote it the way it is: what happened, the weeks until September, and groceries for the three of them until then, with her grocery list attached. In her words: "I'd rather ask than have my kids notice."
Food help is not only the grocery store. A family with a new baby, someone recovering from surgery, a house that just lost someone: meals through those weeks belong here as well. When the bigger cost is the care, the hospital or the funeral, those have their own guides: childcare, medical bills and funeral costs.
You choose who receives a grocery request and send it by text or email; only people with the link can open it. It is never posted where the parents at school pickup would scroll past it.
| What you keep | The entire amount of every contribution. |
| When it arrives | Once your bank is connected, each contribution reaches it in 2-3 business days. |
| How you send it | By text or email, to the people you choose, with photos and a video if you want them to see the situation rather than just read about it. You decide who to send it to. It's never listed on A Better Gift, and it stays out of search results unless you choose to share it publicly. |
Sometimes the person who needs groceries is the last one who will ask. "She wouldn't ask for herself, so I'm asking." Raise it for her with her name on the request. Whoever creates the request receives the payout, so the person doing the shopping should set it up, or help her start her own.
Nothing to create a request. Nothing to send it. And nothing comes out of what people give you: you receive the entire amount.
