Overview
- Distribution is underway Nov. 11–17 from 3–5 p.m. at Jon & Vinny’s Slauson Avenue location in Los Angeles.
- The program will provide 1,400 takeout meals structured as 100 dinners for two each day.
- SNAP recipients can sign up by emailing notcharity@jonandvinnys.com, with up to four meals per household and scheduled pickup times.
- SZA proposed the idea and is coordinating through her nonprofit NOT Charity in collaboration with the restaurant.
- SNAP funding and disbursement remain unsettled during the shutdown, with ongoing court fights and congressional action, and reporting cites 5.5 million Californians affected.