Mercy Chefs Inc.

Founded in 2006, Mercy Chefs is a faith-based, non-profit disaster relief organization. We exist to serve professionally prepared meals for victims, volunteers and first responders in national emergencies and natural disasters and are committed to using our resources to meet the needs of others. We respond to natural disasters and national emergencies at a moment's notice. In our response, our professional chefs prepare high-quality, hot meals on a mass scale for victims, first-responders and volunteers. In addition, we have provided relief in eight nations following disasters and during critical humanitarian crisis.

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Goal One: Local churches and Christian organizations become the hub for our emergency deployments and community outreaches. We work in partnership with these organizations to maximize the long term impact.

Goal Two: Mercy Chefs sets up our mobile kitchen, refrigerated trailer and team of professional chefs on site to plan, prepare and serve restaurant quality meals for the community members in need.

Goal Three: Local volunteers come alongside Mercy Chefs to help meet the need within their own community. Their service creates a lasting connection between those we serve and our local partners.

Our investment in leadership development has been through Gallup - Cliftonstrengths. We engage employees and lead more productive teams with this collection of CliftonStrengths activities proven to help teams succeed. Strengths-based development starts with understanding what strengths contribute to performance. Every team is the sum of its parts, and different challenges call for specific abilities. Some teams need conflict resolution and some need help staying on task, while others need help aligning their work with the organization’s purpose.

For more than a year now, Mercy Chefs has been serving Americans impacted by the Covid pandemic and economic shutdown. Our teams have distributed millions of meals to hardworking families in need, and in community after community, we have seen long lines of hungry people patiently waiting for a meal. Shortly after the coronavirus crisis began in the United States, Mercy Chefs launched our grocery box program in multiple states across the nation, later partnering with the USDA and "Farmers to Families" when that initiative was implemented by the federal government. At the time, we had no idea how impactful and far-reaching this new model of food distribution would become but in the weeks that followed, we watched it explode across many areas of the country, contributing heavily to the eight million meals we served last year. We could never have expected any of this, nor could we have imagined that The United States would arrive at Spring 2021 with the country still menaced by economic disaster. Mercy Chefs has distributed more than 16 million pounds of groceries in partnership with the USDA and Farmers to Families across the nation. These boxes are a lifeline for families facing food insecurity due to rising grocery costs and economic instability. In recent months, Mercy Chefs has also begun providing meals to key hospital staff in emergency rooms, ICUs, and Covid units. These courageous healthcare workers are leading the fight against the pandemic. Our delivery teams are overwhelmed by the sincere gratitude we receive. It's so important that our healthcare heroes know that they are not forgotten. Our mission is to "just go feed people" - in and out of disaster and to the fullest extent of our resources. That's exactly what we're doing with our coronavirus response. One full year after Covid-19 changed life as everyone once knew, we are very much aware that millions of lives have been so deeply affected. The need continues to grow, and so must our response.