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the thanksgiving distribution
Three days. Three hundred plus volunteers. Three thousand plus meals out the door. This is what we built YINZgiving to do, and we get a little bigger and a little better every November.
Volunteer 2026
the start of something
The Story
we feed neighbors.
not strangers.
YINZgiving started in 2020 with a phone call. The world had stopped. A lot of Pittsburgh tables had gotten smaller.
Sammy Smith-Schuster called with an idea. We answered with 250 meals out of pure stubbornness. Heading into our seventh year, we've hand-delivered over 11,000 of them to neighbors across Allegheny and parts of Washington County.
No paperwork. No questions. Just a restaurant-quality Thanksgiving dinner, prepared by Dive Bar & Grille, carried to a neighbor's door by people who care. The kitchen isn't a vendor. Dive Bar's owner, Clint Kuskie, sits on our founding board. The food and the foundation are the same family.
There's music in the parking lot. Pittsburgh's best DJ on the speakers. Kids running between the boxes. It's not a somber service. It's a party we throw before we go home to our own.
Because the best way to come to your own Thanksgiving table is to have just helped set someone else's.
Rachel Maga, Executive Director & Founder
