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DoorDash is introducing the new cohorts of Accelerator for Local Restaurants participants, all based in New Jersey and New York City. 

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Announcing the Newest Accelerator for Local Restaurants Cohorts 

With more than 73% of Americans stating that grilling is a must-do summer activity,* we took a look at grocery shopping trends surrounding the one item no cookout is complete without: burgers. Just in time for the ultimate grilling weekend crossover –  National Burger Day (5/28) and Memorial Day here’s what we found:

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Kicking off Grilling Season with Sizzling Insights 

Now, in commemoration of our three-year partnership that has powered more than 600,000 deliveries with the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, DoorDash customers can support the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank directly in the DoorDash app for a limited time. Those 600,000+ deliveries of groceries equate to an estimated over 9.6 million meals connected to people experiencing food insecurity. Your support means more meals can be provided to more people.

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San Francisco and Marin County Customers: Support Your Local Food Bank Directly in the DoorDash App

Empowering local economies is at the heart of our work at DoorDash. Today, we’re proud to release the 2022 DoorDash Economic Impact Report, outlining how merchants, Dashers, and the DoorDash platform supported economic impact in the local communities we serve across the United States. In 2022, the DoorDash community supported an estimated $78 billion in economic activity in the U.S. and $15.7 billion in tax revenues.

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Empowering Local Communities: The Results of DoorDash’s 2022 Economic Impact Report

Throughout May, we’re celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month in the United States and Canada. Traditionally a time dedicated for remembrance of the many contributions of the Asian Pacific Islander community, we’re kicking off a series of virtual and in-person events at DoorDash in collaboration with our AAPI@ Employee Resource Group.

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How DoorDash is celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage month 2023

As part of our ongoing commitment to empower local economies and support small businesses, DoorDash today announced the Restaurant Disaster Relief Fund is now live for the 2023 funding year. In partnership with Hello Alice and the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN), DoorDash will provide 100 grants of $10,000 USD to restaurants impacted by state- or federally- declared natural disasters.

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DoorDash Kicks Off 2023 $1,000,000 Restaurant Disaster Relief Fund

To raise awareness of the diverse array of Dasher experiences, we’re releasing new data showing how people experiencing disabilities are finding work opportunities on DoorDash that meet their unique needs, as well as highlighting a few reasons why some Dashers with disabilities choose to earn on our platform. 

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How Dashing Provides New Work Opportunities for People Experiencing Disabilities

DoorDash published its inaugural ESG Report last year, with the goal of demonstrating our progress and the impact we’re making in the communities we serve. Today, we are proud to share our 2022 ESG Update, detailing some of the new programs, initiatives, and highlights from the past year.

DoorDash’s 2022 ESG Update: Serving More People in More Communities, Worldwide

As part of DoorDash’s ongoing work to broaden food access, we’re excited to announce a series of new commitments designed to expand access to nutritious food and healthy choices. These commitments build on the initiatives and partnerships we launched last year tied to the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.

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Supporting the White House’s Call to Expand Access to Nutritious Foods and Healthy Choices

Today, we’re thrilled to announce the formation of the Able@ DoorDash ERG, joining AAPI (Asian, Asian American, Pacific Islander), Black, Indigenous, Parents, Pride, Unidos, Veterans, and Women as our ninth official Employee Resource Group.

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DoorDash launches new Employee Resource Group aimed at celebrating physical and neurological diversity

At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies undergirds all of the work we do. Today, we are excited to announce an expanded partnership with Walgreens to provide free, same-day prescription delivery of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and antiretroviral medications for the prevention and treatment of HIV to eligible patients.

Supporting the White House’s National HIV/AIDS Strategy, DoorDash Expands Partnership with Walgreens to Provide Free, Same-Day Prescription Delivery of HIV Medications 

For Women’s History Month, we’re taking the time to reflect on the significant contributions of women and show appreciation for their stories. To celebrate in collaboration with our Women@ Employee Resource Group, we’re hosting a variety of hybrid events, offering opportunities to come together in person and virtually

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How DoorDash is celebrating Women’s History Month 2023

Bolstering our commitment to Dashers, local businesses, and customers as we help them navigate challenging economic times

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Building Economic Resilience In Our Communities

At DoorDash, we are intentional in our efforts to create a workplace that engages people of all backgrounds while fostering an environment of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) play a vital role in building, shaping, and driving the culture they want to experience.

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How DoorDash is celebrating Black History Month 2023

Providing the communities we serve with access to food is an integral part of what we do every day at DoorDash. Central to DoorDash’s work to broaden food access is Project DASH, our initiative to empower food banks, food pantries, and other social impact organizations to deliver charitable food to people experiencing food insecurity.

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Celebrating More Than 60 Million Meals Delivered Through Project DASH

Growing its Financial Empowerment Programming, DoorDash Expands Partnership with the International Rescue Committee to Support Immigrant and Refugee Communities

DoorDash Expands Partnership with the International Rescue Committee

DoorDash is broadening its financial empowerment work as we honor and celebrate Veterans for their service.

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Helping Veterans Achieve Financial Independence: DoorDash, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and Zoomo Launch Pathways Financial Empowerment Initiative

On National Vote Early Day and every day, DoorDash is committed to doing its part to build stronger and more equitable communities as part of our mission to empower local economies.   Our local communities are strongest when all voices are heard and every eligible person has the opportunity to voice their opinion. Earlier this year, we encouraged Dashers to check their registration status and, today, we encourage every eligible voter to check their registration status, vote, and to remind their friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues to do so as well.

Making our Communities Stronger – One Vote at a Time

The NBA, WNBA, and DoorDash are working together to make an impact off the court. Announced today, Score One for The Neighborhood is a community initiative designed to help kids and teens facing food insecurity.

DoorDash, NBA, AND WNBA Team Up To Score One For The Neighborhood

At DoorDash, we know that local restaurants are the backbone of our neighborhoods, bringing well-paying jobs, diverse foods, and community spirit to local communities.

Announcing DoorDash’s Accelerator for Local Restaurants Cohorts in Denver and Portland

As the White House convenes the first conference on hunger in over 50 years, DoorDash is announcing a partnership with nearly 20 mayors from across the United States to help end hunger in their communities.

DoorDash Partners with Mayors Across the U.S. to Broaden Food Access in their Communities

New 2022 All Star list recognizes Most Loved U.S. restaurants on DoorDash who are customer favorites and consistently make sure orders are right, on-time, and delicious 

The 100 Most Loved Restaurants on DoorDash Revealed

Last year, we brought together our first New York Dasher Advisory Group, dedicated to amplifying the voices of Dashers in the Empire State and empowering them to advise on key issues, act as a sounding board for ideas, and shape DoorDash’s future by testing new product features. As part of these meetings, we received feedback from Dashers on the importance of flexibility and choice in their lives, took recommendations on how to improve safety on the platform, and discussed community engagement efforts they would be interested in. We’ve always felt it’s important to hear from members of our own community and we’re grateful for the perspectives we’ve heard.

Strengthening Our Support For Dashers In New York

Since 2018, we’ve partnered with food banks, food pantries, and other social impact organizations to power the delivery of charitable food and essential items.

Celebrating 35 Million Meals Delivered through Project DASH

DoorDash was founded nearly ten years ago with the mission to empower local economies. While the world has certainly changed over the past decade, our unwavering commitment to that mission has remained the same. 

That’s why we’re excited to present our policy priorities, a set of specific public policies that we believe will advance opportunities for the communities we serve. These ideas will help us pursue policies that will strengthen the modern labor market, foster growth for local merchants, and reduce food insecurity. 

Delivering For Our Communities: Our U.S. Policy Priorities

At DoorDash, we are proud to offer a safe space for all employees to be their true, authentic selves. During Pride Month and year-round, we celebrate the progress that has been made for LGBTQ+ people and acknowledge the work that still needs to be done. We’re working to empower the LGBTQ+ community by amplifying LGBTQ+ voices, supporting nonprofits serving LGBTQ+ people, and highlighting LGBTQ+ employee, Dasher, merchant, and community stories.

How DoorDash is celebrating Pride Month 2022

DoorDash was founded nine years ago with a big mission: to grow and empower local economies. Delivering on our mission requires us to create value for all of our stakeholders.

ESG Across DoorDash: Digging Into Our First-Ever Report

It’s critically important when developing a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategy to be clear about your purpose and priorities, including who your DEI team is serving. Without definition, it’s easy to co-opt DEI as a way to maintain the status quo, help the majority feel at ease, and justify actions and behavior or lack thereof.

What does diversity, equity, and inclusion really mean?

As many companies prepare for the annual performance cycle, it’s important to reflect on the ways unconscious bias can lead to inconsistencies in our evaluations and feedback ultimately impacting employee opportunities and rewards. 

Mitigating Bias in Performance Reviews

On Veterans Day in the US and Remembrance Day in Canada, all of us at DoorDash celebrate and honor veterans for their service. Today, we’re reflecting on what it means to serve and how we can act on our gratitude by supporting veterans and their caregivers.

Celebrating and Honoring Veterans

DoorDash is committed to building and protecting diverse, inclusive communities. This animates our support of immigrant and refugee Dashers, merchants, and communities. It’s why we work to maintain low-barrier-to-entry earnings opportunities for everyone, empower merchants with training, grants, and resources to build their businesses, and join other businesses and organizations to advocate for immigrant and refugee rights.  

Join us to Support Afghan Arrivals and Refugees

DoorDash, the nation’s leading last-mile logistics platform, today announced at the second annual Main Street Strong Restaurant Conference a $1,000,000 Restaurant Disaster Relief Fund to provide relief grants to local restaurants across the United States affected by state- or federally-declared natural disasters throughout the next year in partnership with Hello Alice. 

DoorDash Establishes $1,000,000 Restaurant Disaster Relief Fund

Providing local communities with access to food is a key part of the work we do at DoorDash. Our platform connects consumers with their favorite meals, groceries, and essential items at the touch of a button. That same technology underpins Project DASH, our initiative to equip social impact organizations such as food banks and food pantries with last-mile logistics to increase access to food and other essential items.

Celebrating One Million Project DASH Deliveries

Communities, families, and businesses that DoorDash serves have been severely impacted by the devastating effects of Hurricane Ian. Many people are in urgent need of assistance, and we’re taking steps to support the recovery effort in the affected regions. 

How DoorDash is supporting local communities affected by Hurricane Ian

DoorDash is committed to empowering local economies and the people who drive them. Working to help our communities leverage their earnings and build generational wealth, we’re proud to announce the launch of the GoalUp Financial Empowerment Program with our trusted partner, the National Urban League. The Urban League’s 91 brick-and-mortar affiliates spanning 36 states and the District of Columbia have historically reached their two million clients through in-person services. COVID-19 and its resulting financial challenges underscored both the underlying need for these services and the need for them to be available online. 

Announcing the GoalUp Financial Empowerment Program to Promote Financial Literacy

DoorDash prides itself not just on offering a flexible platform that meets the needs of merchants, Dashers, and customers, but also on advocating for solutions that best serve our communities. This is especially true in New York City. 

DoorDash Stands Up for New York City Consumer Safety and Privacy

If you didn’t have a chance to tune into our quarterly earnings call, or read to the end of our shareholder letter last week, you may have missed some exciting news: on August 3, 2021, we reached a new company milestone, fulfilling two billion orders. 

Celebrating 2 Billion DoorDash Orders, Thanks to You

Throughout the pandemic we saw an uptick in food insecurity, with almost 1 in 5 people in the United States accessing food banks at some point and an increased need for food assistance among vulnerable populations that shows little sign of abating. Food banks and food pantries faced new logistical hurdles, with facilities closing doors and people staying at home as the rate of food insecurity grew significantly.

Project DASH Celebrates 15 Million Meals Delivered and Announces New Food Bank Partners

Today, we’re proud to announce our collaboration with the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) and Direct Relief to support the White House’s efforts to vaccinate 70% of adults in the US by July 4.

DoorDash Donates $2 Million in Community Credits to Support the White House’s Vaccination Efforts

Last month, DoorDash announced the Main Street Strong Accelerator, developed in close collaboration with Accion Opportunity Fund. We were overwhelmed by the excitement and interest in participation from the restaurant community, and today, we are proud to announce the selection of 100 restaurateurs from New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Atlanta to participate in our inaugural Main Street Strong Accelerator.

Introducing the Main Street Strong Accelerator Participants

DoorDash strives to bring customers convenient, on-demand access to everything they need and love in their neighborhoods, from the best local restaurant meals to last-minute grocery items or daily household supplies. Amidst the pandemic, one of our top priorities has been to make health and wellness essentials more accessible, allowing customers to get the items they need most delivered to their doorstep.

Announcing On-Demand Delivery of COVID-19 PCR Test Kits

To support these businesses, help restaurateurs stabilize and adapt for the long-term, and increase equitable access to opportunity in the restaurant industry, today we are opening applications for the Main Street Strong Accelerator.

Announcing the Main Street Strong Accelerator

DoorDash is deeply committed to building and protecting diverse, inclusive communities. This drives our work to ensure DoorDash provides access to equitable and low-barrier to entry earning opportunities for those who need it. This also motivates us to support immigrant and refugee entrepreneurs as they fulfill their dreams and enrich our communities with vibrant culinary traditions.

Standing with the Immigrant Community

Last year, we announced our Main Street Strong winter grant program, which initially allocated $2 million to small restaurants across Chicago, Denver, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and San Jose as they confronted the challenges wrought by COVID-19 during the cold weather months. In mid-November, DoorDash announced that as part of our five-year, $200 million Main Street Strong Pledge to empower local communities, we would be expanding that grant program to $10 million. Today, we are pleased to announce the details of the expanded Main Street Strong COVID-19 relief grant program.

Expanding Our Main Street Strong Program to Further Empower Restaurants

We are excited to announce the DoorDash Community Credits program. Through this effort, we are providing DoorDash gift cards to nonprofits that are carrying out our shared goals. We know that having access to meals, essentials, and other items can make a difference for these groups as they work to create greater access and equity for their communities. Organizations in the U.S., Canada and Australia who would like to participate can start by completing this form to be considered for a donation.

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Introducing the DoorDash Community Credits Program

2020 has been tremendously challenging for communities across America and DoorDash remains committed to helping our partners navigate these difficult times, as well as what comes next. That’s why, as part of our recently announced five-year, $200 million Main Street Strong pledge to support merchants, Dashers, and local communities, DoorDash and the National Urban League are working together on the “Dasher Empowerment Partnership.” This first-of-its-kind program is designed to help Dashers from underserved communities attain new job skills and entrepreneurial success, and build generational wealth through financial literacy training, educational funding, job programs, and more.

Establishing the Dasher Empowerment Partnership with the National Urban League

DoorDash was founded with a mission to grow and empower local economies. Never have local economies and the communities that sustain them been more challenged than in 2020. With many of those challenges likely to extend into next year, we recognize that our commitment to supporting the people and local businesses that power DoorDash has never been more important. Our platform only works if it works for all stakeholders, and our company will only be successful if success is shared.

Redoubling Our Commitment to Empower Local Communities

This year has been extraordinarily challenging for restaurants. At the beginning of the COVID crisis, dining rooms across the nation closed. Then, as shelter in place orders began to lift, our restaurant partners started to welcome guests back, with many limited to outdoor patios. Now, with winter weather fast approaching, restaurants are facing a new challenge: lower temperatures in much of the country that threaten outdoor dining and put even more pressure on indoor spaces. With that in mind, today, at the DoorDash Main Street Strong Conference, we are announcing our latest Main Street Strong initiative, helping restaurants prepare for the winter months ahead.