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Our Big Kitchen Los Angeles (OBKLA) combats hunger by providing meals, love, unity, and community. We are a community-run, industrial kosher kitchen that engages volunteers to prepare and distribute restaurant-quality meals to individuals and families experiencing food insecurity in Los Angeles County. By partnering with local schools and community-based organizations, OBKLA provides community volunteers ages 5 to 95 with opportunities to prepare meals for distribution to vulnerable Angelenos who may not otherwise have access to fresh food.

Second Harvest of the Big Bend (SHBB) is a nonprofit charity started in 1982 to address the urgent problem of hunger in the community. The food bank’s mission is to meet the short-term nutritional needs of hungry, food insecure people and lead the community in the fight to end hunger.Because people often have to make difficult choices between feeding themselves and their families, and paying for other necessities, no-cost food assistance can lift a big weight from their shoulders. Thanks to Second Harvest, clients can utilize income to pay for other expenses, such as medicines, school expenses for children, rent and utilities. This helps them to save money, increase assets and strengthen resiliency.

The purpose for which the Andrew Gobczynski Big Heart Foundation, Incorporated is organized is a 501(c)(3), and it is classified as a civic leagues and social welfare organization. The organization will be operated primarily to promote social welfare to benefit the Effingham community. We qualify for exemption under section 501(c)(3), because the organization’s net earnings will be devoted primarily to charitable and educational purposes. In addition, no part of the organization’s net earnings will benefit any private shareholder or individual. The Andrew Gobczynski Big Heart Foundation, incorporated seeks to help those who are struggling through adversity in their lives. This mission will be maintained through charitable donations to local schools for various programs and scholarships, and local chapters of charities as well. The focus of the Andrew Gobczynski Big Heart Foundation, Incorporated is one that values, above anything else, supporting those who are facing adversity in our local community. The Andrew Gobczynski Big Heart Foundation, Incorporated is organized and will be operated on a nonprofit basis. It is organized primarily to promote social welfare, and it will operate primarily to further the common good and general welfare of the people of the community.