Help Support Operation BBQ!

About

Competition BBQ Teams Helping Disaster Victims

Mission

Our Mission:

The mission of Operation BBQ Relief is to provide compassion and to offer hope and friendship to those whose lives have been affected by natural disasters across the United States through our expertise in cooking and catering barbecue meals and our ability to quickly mobilize our teams into any area where nature disrupts and tears apart the lives of Americans.

Our Values:

We value honesty, compassion, friendship, hard work and respect for others and for resources with which we are provided. Decisions and actions of Operation BBQ Relief will always be made and carried out with these values in mind. We want the communities we serve to be able to state without reservation that Operation BBQ Relief upheld these values while making a positive impact in the lives of their citizens.

Description

Operation BBQ Relief is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation founded in May, 2011 in response to a need for relief efforts in tornado-stricken Joplin, Missouri. On Sunday evening, May 22, a massive multi-vortex EF5 tornado plowed through the southwest Missouri community of about 50,000 residents, killing over 140 people and injuring more than 1,000. It left a path of almost total destruction six miles long and over a half mile wide. It is now classified as the second deadliest tornado in U.S. history.

In the wake of this nearly unprecedented destruction, competition barbecue teams from eight states answered the call to help feed displaced families and police, fire, National Guard and emergency personnel. The group, headed by Stan Hays (County Line Smokers), Jeff Stith (Big Creek BBQ) and Will Cleaver (Sticks N Chicks BBQ), was able to serve over 120,000 barbecue meals in less than two weeks during the operation in Joplin. Food was served from our location in the community and delivered to shelters, hospitals, senior living communities and the Humane Society. Volunteers also loaded food into vehicles and delivered directly to families in the impacted areas within the tornado’s footprint. The operation was made possible by many businesses who contributed food and supplies and people from across the country who donated cash.

As a result of efforts in Joplin, Operation BBQ Relief was born. The Joplin operation will be used as a model for future disasters such as hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, floods and other tornados. We are a not-for-profit corporation registered in all fifty states and ready to respond to natural disaster emergencies across the United States.

General Information

Our Vision:

The vision of Operation BBQ Relief is that all people involved in relief efforts during natural disasters will understand the true meaning of compassion for those who have lost possessions and loved ones and that they will further utilize all of their God-given skills and abilities to better the lives of those affected.

OPERATION BBQ RELIEF WEBSITE: operationbbqrelief

DAY 9 REPORT (Saturday, November 10): OBR was providing meals on Staten Island, Brooklyn (Coney Island), Long Beach (Long Island) and Brick, New Jersey today and volunteers everywhere were working their tails off to provide 12,000 hot meal

s to victims! The picture here is the food line at Long Beach (taken by motoeric at the BBQ Brethren). People on Long Island were brought to tears by the food provided by Phil and the group he pulled together from the BBQ Brethren! Both Staten Island and Long Beach were new sites for us today. Coney Island and Brick continued helping those in these hard-hit areas. Folks, the nine-day total of meals served during Operation Sandy is up to 80,900!!! FANTASTIC JOB, VOLUNTEERS!!! And donors, PLEASE keep helping us achieve these kind of results! We need all of you! Thank you!!!

How's this for a GRATE DEAL? Thru 11/21 10% of SALES go to Operation BBQ Relief and ORDERS over $100 get a GrillGrate T Shirt FREE! Please share this GRATE DEAL!

You can order here and help support this cause at the same time and get amazing deal to boot on this wicked good product that will take your BBQing to the next level: http://www.mygrillgrate.com/

Any donation or volunteering for this great cause is greatly appreciated!