Happy Hour Fund is a grassroots mutual aid fund providing financial assistance and necessities to excluded workers in Los Angeles County and the Washington metropolitan area whose lives have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.100% of fund proceeds go to excluded workers.
The information we collect helps us understand which populations we are serving and helps us effectively disperse funds.
Applicants must meet the following requirements to receive funding:
- Applicants must live or work in Los Angeles County or in the Washington metropolitan area (District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland);
- Applicants must be an excluded worker, meaning: an individual who cannot access unemployment insurance, pandemic unemployment assistance, stimulus checks, healthcare, sick pay, hazard pay, pensions, or other social support systems; and is an individual working in the service sector, which includes the retail, food service, warehousing, transportation, sanitation, beauty, hospitality, domestic industries, or the informal sector (those who do not have a formal employer or employee contract), which includes domestic workers, street vendors, homeworkers, sex workers, etc.; and
- Applicants must NOT have received funding in the last three months.
Please submit one application per household. Only one member of each household needs to meet the above requirements. Households may submit a request for funds every three months (90 days). All requests are guaranteed a response within ten days.
All forms will be handled confidentially. We will not release any information regarding the candidate's name or other identifying information without the explicit consent of the candidate.
For any questions, please email
happyhourfund@gmail.com in English or Spanish.
Happy Hour Fund Grant Application: Washington, DC (Spanish/Español) –
https://forms.gle/doyxoScCsQbeMNBK9Happy Hour Fund Grant Application: Los Angeles (English/Inglés) —
https://forms.gle/vvAoBnKdPYXqV4S5AHappy Hour Fund Grant Application: Los Angeles (Spanish/Español) —
https://forms.gle/CxN4BAia39KUH6Tb6