Globally people are suffering, and medical personnel are heroes, so keeping a beloved coffee shop running would not necessarily be at the top of the list. However, this fundraiser isn't for the shop, but its people. Jim Hilson is adamant that he will not accept handouts for the business itself. This is only about raising funds for Saxbys team members to help them through this situation. 100 percent of what we raise will be distributed to them.

If just 400 of the caffeinated regulars commit $12 a week during the coronavirus shutdown, then crew members can have resources while the service industry is bottoming out. Of course we welcome larger gifts as well, but $12 is a sustainable amount for most of us. Surely among neighbors, students, and faculty/staff we can find 400 takers. So who's in? You can add your name to a list I'll post here or remain anonymous, whatever's your style (I'll write to you after you donate to get your preference). Just click the orange Join the Saxbys 400 button above to get started. After your first payment, I'll send everyone reminders to keep chipping in weekly until this shutdown ends.

PLEASE NOTE: This page was created voluntarily, as a way of being a friendly neighbor. No one at Saxbys requested it either locally or nationally. I just don't want to see great people suffer when so many of us have so much and can help out. I'm also collecting for and donating to Georgetown Ministry Center, SOME (So Others Might Eat), and Georgetown University Hospital, plus paying those who do contingent work such as housekeeping and personal training. I'm sure you are as well. But the Saxbys crew is vulnerable right now, and it would be great if we could lift them up.

To the alumni who left Georgetown before 2006 and have been asking, YES, this is the same spot where Sugars used to be.

THE SAXBYS 400 (Anonymous donors are identified by broad category)

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1. Georgetown humanities professor

2. Carole Sargent

3. Kitty Kelley

4. Brad Hilson

5. Shiva Subbaraman

6. Mark Carl Rom

7. Ayse Orellana 

8. Madison Duval

9. Georgetown SFS alum

10. Erika Cohen Derr

11. The Dolan Family

12. Georgetown Government alum

13. Georgetown STEM major

14. Chris (B'06) + Alison (C'07) Vinciguerra

15. Hilson family

16. Colleen Girouard

17. Maury Devine

18. Georgetown SFS '74 alum

19. Cyndi Munson

20. Izzy Ferland and Jonathan Leo

21. Jim and Sharon Hilson

22. Fiona Stewart

23. Georgetown Psychology major C21

24. Justin Smith

25. Georgetown University Journalism Professor

26. Georgetown neighborhood judge