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Great Chefs® Fight Hunger

Mahalo to Everyone Who Supported

A Fundraiser for Hawai‘i Foodbank

We want to thank everyone for their incredible support at this year’s Great Chefs® Fight Hunger, a fundraiser for Hawai‘i Foodbank! It was certainly an evening to remember. With the combined contributions of our table sponsors, ticket sales, Cellar Door and Silent Auction participants, Matching Gift Challenge, individual donors and a generous $40,000 gift from Governor Josh Green and First Lady Jaime Green:

Your support at Great Chefs® Fight Hunger will help provide food for nearly 580,000 meals.

That’s over half a million meals to help nourish our ‘ohana. What an incredible demonstration of how strong, resilient and supportive of one another we are as a community. Even after 40 years of service, all of us at Hawai‘i Foodbank are continually blown away by your generosity.

On behalf of our Board of Directors, staff, volunteers and all those that we serve in our community — mahalo again for supporting Great Chefs® Fight Hunger and helping us connect with each other, this ʻāina, our ʻohana, our past, our present and the future. 

 
Visit the Great Chefs® Fight Hunger photo album to share in the connection of the evening:

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Mahalo to Our Sponsors

Platinum Sponsors
Great Chefs Fight Hunger 2023 Platinum Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Great Chefs Fight Hunger 2023 Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
American Savings Bank
Angel Network Charities LLC
Bank of Hawaii
Becker Communications Inc.
Central Pacific Bank
Stanley and Mitsuko Shikuma
Hawaiian Airlines
J. Uno & Associates Inc.
Kaiser Permanente Hawaii
Kelley O’Neil’s
Koga Engineering & Construction Inc.
Par Hawaii
Pasha Hawaii
UHA Health Insurance
Ward Village / Howard Hughes
Y. Hata & Co. Ltd.
Additional Support

Atlas Insurance
Gentry Homes

Mitsunaga Construction Inc.
Kevin Sakamoto

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

The Queen’s Health Systems

Mary Fisher
Virginia and Helen Carey
William Froelich
Jana and John Hardy

Jeanne Herbert

Kathryn Ellman
Amy Miller Marvin
Lauren Oshima
Chris Hause and Judy Peterson

James L. Starshak
Mark Tonini
Denise Hayashi Yamaguchi
Lauren Zirbel

We’d like to extend a special mahalo to our anonymous donor for their generous matching gift.

Mahalo to Our Partners

Event Partners
Great Chefs Fight Hunger 2023 Partners
Farm Partners

Aloun Farms
Kahumana Organic Farms
Kāko‘o ‘Ōiwi

Mahalo nui loa to all of our local farm partners — not only for helping making this dinner possible but also for your ongoing support to nourish our ‘ohana.

Special Thanks

Aiea Copy Center
Aloha Artisans
Creative Designs Hawaii

Diamond Parking

Elite Parking Services
Florals by Mahina Cavalieri and Pu‘u Zablan
Gyotaku
Honolulu Beerworks

Kat Wade Photography
Picturesque
Pono Renaud & Josei Alfonsi         
The Orchid Lei Company

We’d like to extend a very special mahalo to our Great Chefs® Fight Hunger Co-Chairs Chef Jeff Vigilla and Pam Davis.

Questions About Great Chefs® Fight Hunger?

For more information, please contact Jennifer Onishi, director of corporate relations and partnerships, at jonishi@hawaiifoodbank.org or 808-954-7874.

Federal Poverty Guidelines

Household Size
200% Monthly Gross Income (BBCE Household)
130% Monthly Gross Income (Regular Household)
100% Monthly Net Income
1
$2,606
$1,694
$1,303
2
$3,510
$2,282
$1,755
3
$4,416
$2,870
$2,208
4
$5,320
$3,458
$2,660
5
$6,226
$4,047
$3,113
6
$7,130
$4,635
$3,565
7
$8,036
$5,223
$4,018
8
$8,940
$5,811
$4,470
9
$9,846
$6,400
$4,923
10
$10,752
$6,989
$5,376
11
$11,658
$7,578
$5,829
12
$12,564
$8,167
$6,282
13
$13,470
$8,756
$6,735
14
$14,376
$9,345
$7,188
15
$15,282
$9,934
$7,641
16
$906
$589
$453

Note: 200% BBCE Monthly Gross Income (MGI) is based on 100% SNAP Federal Poverty Level (FPL)
BBCE – Broad-based Categorical Eligibility

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Federal Poverty Guidelines

Household Size
200% Monthly Gross Income
(BBCE Household)
130% Monthly Gross Income
(Regular Household)
100% Monthly Net Income
1
$2,606
$1,694
$1,303
2
$3,510
$2,282
$1,755
3
$4,416
$2,870
$2,208
4
$5,320
$3,458
$2,660
5
$6,226
$4,047
$3,113
6
$7,130
$4,635
$3,565
7
$8,036
$5,223
$4,018
8
$8,940
$5,811
$4,470
9
$9,846
$6,400
$4,923
10
$10,752
$6,989
$5,376
11
$11,658
$7,578
$5,829
12
$12,564
$8,167
$6,282
13
$13,470
$8,756
$6,735
14
$14,376
$9,345
$7,188
15
$15,282
$9,934
$7,641
16
$906
$589
$453

Note: 200% BBCE Monthly Gross Income (MGI) is based on 100% SNAP Federal Poverty Level (FPL)
BBCE – Broad-based Categorical Eligibility