Anthony Davis is helping Staples Center workers find new jobs and is working to raise money to purchase food from local restaurants and deliver it to hospital workers.
. He’s consumed the news daily, but his mother also shares updates with him. She has sisters who are healthcare workers.
“They’re around it a lot, and they’re at a high risk of being exposed to it because they’re in the hospital,” Davis said. “One of my aunties got sent home. I think they took a test and it hasn’t come back yet. … That’s the risk they’re willing to take to save so many lives.” Davis has been thinking about the consequences of the pandemic for weeks now, both on healthcare workers and the economy. On Friday, he announced a partnership with Lineage Logistics, the world’s largest cold food storage company, in hopes of helping in both arenas. The first arm of the partnership will helpworkers find jobs with Lineage, which has about 300 jobs to fill in the Los Angeles area as demand for frozen foods rises.
Davis and Lineage will also match up to $250,000 in donations for Feed the Frontlines LA, an organization trying to raise money to purchase food from local restaurants and deliver it to hospital workers.,” Davis said. “Lineage Logistics had contacted my team, and you know I wanted to get involved with them and kind of supply food to everyone and [give] the people in Staples the opportunity to work.
Lineage had previously partnered with Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry to create jobs for arena workers in the Bay Area and store the food Curry planned to distribute in Oakland.
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