Gabe Pepper got the call the first Sunday of spring break. It was his older brother, Miles.

“My brother had spoken to the manager of our grandma’s nursing home in Northern California, and she was having a really hard time finding hand sanitizer,” Pepper said. “She was going out to the grocery store every morning to try and find some, which was potentially exposing her to the virus.”

Miles Pepper, who has experience with crowdfunding and startups, had called Gabe because he knew distilleries were making hand sanitizer, and wanted to find a way to connect distilleries with nursing homes and other facilities in need.

He asked Gabe if he could get a group of volunteers together to start calling around and making those connections, which grew into the free website