Mercy Chefs
Feeding Body And Soul
Mission
Our mission is simple: "just go feed people." Mercy Chefs is a faith-based, non-profit disaster relief organization. We exist to provide professionally prepared, restaurant-quality meals to victims, volunteers, and first responders in natural disasters and national emergencies, and we partner with existing like-minded organizations to further their mission by providing food service in underserved communities across the country. Our main focuses are: disaster relief, long-term recovery, community kitchens & outreach, and food insecurity relief.
Ruling year
2006
Founder and CEO
Mr. Gary LeBlanc
Cofounder & President
Ann LeBlanc
Main address
711 Washington St.
Portsmouth, VA 23704 USA
EIN
20-5050449
NTEE code
Disaster Preparedness and Relief Services (M20)
Emergency Assistance (Food, Clothing, Cash) (P60)
Emergency Assistance (Food, Clothing, Cash) (P60)
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Disaster Relief & Long-Term Recovery
We provide high-quality, chef prepared meals for victims, volunteers, and first responders in disaster zones. We respond to natural disasters and national emergencies at a moment’s notice. In our deployments, our professional chefs prepare high-quality, hot meals on a mass scale for victims, first responders and volunteers. Our team is often one of the first organizations to arrive following a major weather event and is capable of providing 15,000+ meals daily to meet the needs of a devastated community. We also provide clean water, sanitation supplies, and other basic necessities in the wake of national or international disasters.
Community Kitchens & Outreach
Mercy Chefs’ Co-Founder, Ann LeBlanc, inspired the development of our Community Kitchens and Outreach division. She recognized our organization’s responsibility to put our resources, volunteers, and skills to use outside of disasters to feed food-insecure populations across the nation. In 2019, Mercy Chefs launched its first permanent community kitchen in Portsmouth (VA) as the model for a program that so far has been replicated in Panama City (FL), Nashville (TN), McAllen (TX), and Paducah (KY).
Food Insecurity Response
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Mercy Chefs has delivered millions of meals through grocery box distribution in states like Texas, Florida, Virginia, Puerto Rico, Oklahoma and more. The impact these groceries have made on people's lives is unparalleled, and we know we must continue to do more. Not only have we expanded our grocery box distribution program, but we're finding new ways to support people in food insecure communities with job skills training, single parent cooking classes, and budget recipe creation through teaching classes run from our community kitchens nationwide.
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Mercy Chefs
Board of directorsas of 01/19/2023
Gary LeBlanc
Mercy Chefs
Term: 2015 -
Janet Young
Jim Boyd
Richard Baker SR
Kevin Turpin
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Ethics and transparency
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Board composition
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Board performance
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