Newport Restaurant Group Donates $8.8K To Brookline Food Pantry

BROOKLINE, MA — Newport Restaurant Group (NRG) has made a donation of nearly $8,800 to the Brookline Food Pantry as part of its annual holiday gift card program.

This year, NRG doubled its commitment by donating $2.00 from every gift card order to community partners whose mission focuses on food insecurity. The Brookline Food Pantry is one of six organizations that will receive a total of $52,838 from the annual fundraiser.

“Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have been helping three times as many households at the Brookline Food Pantry as we did before March of 2020,” said Elizabeth Boen, Executive Director of the Brookline Food Pantry, in a statement. “This includes approximately 650 families at our pantry locations, over 60 deliveries to homebound elderly neighbors, and over 400 weekend backpacks per week to school children.”

"We would not be able to assist this many families without the help of donations as generous as this one from the Newport Restaurant Group,” she continued. "The employee owners of the Newport Restaurant Group have time and again shown us that they truly care about the communities in which they work.”

Since the holiday gift card program’s inception in 2019, NRG has raised over $90,000 for area nonprofits.

“Fighting food insecurity is an ongoing battle, and we are so grateful to these wonderful organizations who work tirelessly to support our neighbors,” said Paul O’Reilly, President and Chief Executive Officer of NRG, in a statement. “This program would not be a success without the support of our guests, as well as the passion and dedication of our employee-owners for this cause.”