In 1985, hospice volunteer Ganga Stone delivered a hot meal via bicycle to a man named Richard who was living with HIV/AIDS. Not long after, along with friend Jane Best, Stone founded God's Love We Deliver. The organization delivered meals, often on bike, to Manhattan-based individuals diagnosed with terminal HIV/AIDS. They delivered around 50 meals per week.

Thirty years later, GLWD delivers around 1.5 million meals a year, thanks to 90 staff employees and about 8,000 volunteers. They now provide for anyone with a life altering illness of any kind, catering to 6,200 clients with over 200 distinct diagnoses. This year, they are the official charity partner of the Outsider Art Fair.

"The people who founded this organization just wanted to do something," chief development officer David Ludwigson explained to The Huffington Post. "It was a time of tremendous fear and stigma. People were dying of AIDS and they were alone. For the first year or two, there were meals, but there was also apartment cleaning, pet sitting, giving someone a massage or just sitting with them and having a cup of coffee. We eventually started to focus solely on the food."

"Our tagline used to be 'food for the body and soul,'" added manager of communications Emmett Findley. "Its a very personal act to have someone cook you a meal and bring it to you. It brings relief and dignity. Today the language were using around our work is 'food is medicine and food is love.'"