Steak dinners for Miami's homeless neighbors.

We fire up the grill at shelters across Miami and serve hot steak dinners to people who almost never get one. A good meal is a way of telling someone they matter.

Not just a meal. A meal worth sitting down for.

In Miami, too many of our neighbors go to bed hungry. The food that reaches them is usually whatever is cheapest and easiest to hand out in bulk — and it tells them exactly where they rank.

The Giving Grill does the opposite. We cook steak. We plate it hot, we hand it over ourselves, and we stay and eat with people. It turns a handout into a dinner, and a line into a table.

Every dollar goes to one of two places: buying the steaks, or getting the grill to more nights in more neighborhoods. Nobody here takes a salary.

A steak is not just food. For one night it's proof that somebody thought you were worth the trouble.

Three Giving Grill volunteers in aprons cooking steaks on an outdoor grill at a Miami Steak Night

What a Steak Night looks like

We show up with the grill, the coolers and the team, cook on site, and serve every plate by hand until we run out.

Giving Grill volunteers plating hot food along a serving line as guests wait with their plates A Giving Grill volunteer passing a full plate across the serving table to a guest reaching for it Steaks searing on a long grill as volunteers work them with tongs Guests seated at long tables eating while Giving Grill volunteers serve from the front of the hall

Three ways to put a plate on the table

Give

Donations buy steaks and fuel the next night. Every gift is tax-deductible, and we'll tell you exactly what it bought.

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Cook and serve

We need hands on the grill, at the table, and on cleanup. No experience needed — just show up hungry to help.

Email us to volunteer

Host a night

Run a shelter, school or program in Miami? We'll bring the grill, the food and the crew to you.

Partner with us

Who we are

Five founders out of Miami who got tired of talking about it and bought a grill.

Nicolas Bello

Nicolas Bello

President & Co-Founder
Macsen Rowlands

Macsen Rowlands

Co-Founder
Aaron Sparaga

Aaron Sparaga

Co-Founder
Milad Farajzadeh

Milad Farajzadeh

Co-Founder
Travis Phinney

Travis Phinney

Co-Founder