Jiwon McCartney founded Culinary Fight Club, a monthly live cooking competition, and Fight2Feed, a charitable organization that aims to fight hunger and reduce food waste. Fight2Feed operates a food truck that collects daily surplus from restaurants, grocers, and food banks to cook and package fresh, sustainable meals. Volunteers then distribute these meals in Chicago neighborhoods where hunger is prevalent. Since 2014, Fight2Feed has shared over 4,000 meals through its food truck missions. Its goals are to expand to other cities and operate Fight2Feed chapters nationwide to share meals on a larger scale.

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Jiwon McCartney
Founder, CEO
CULINARY Fight Club
A Monthly Live Cooking Competition
Fight2Feed
A Charitable Organization
To Fight Hunger + Reduce our Waste

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Where I started…
Owner + Managing Director of
Founded ALLURE Event & Meeting Productions, Inc. in 2006
from Atlanta and was in Chicago 2007
I WANT THAT, Inc. was founded in 2012

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A case study?

4. If you’re a good cook you can cook Anything, Anytime, ANYWHERE!
The 1st CULINARY Fight Club
11/14/2013
3 Chefs, 4 Judges, 60 Seconds to Pick Your Ingredients
60 Minutes to create the best plate of your life!!

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Now What?

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Let’s do something
GOOD together …
Let’s Give Back!

7. FIGHT2FEED
A Charitable Organization
bringing food 2 where hunger lives

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WHY?
1 OF 6 CHICAGOANS
FACE HUNGER EVERY
DAY
THAT MEANS SOMEONE ON YOUR BLOCK
IS SUFFERING FROM HUNGER

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WHAT HUNGER LOOKS LIKE
37% are children under 18
9% are children under 5
47% of households say they
have to choose between
paying for food and utilities
44% report choosing between
paying for food and rent or
mortgage
Information by Greater Chicago Food Depository
www.chicagosfoodbank.org

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IT’S POSSIBLE
We Squander from farm to fork more than
40% of all food produced in America
uneaten, according to research by former
University of Arizona anthropologist
Timothy Jones. That amounts to more than
29 million tons of food waste each year, or
enough to fill the Rose Bowl every three
days. Nationwide, food scraps make up 17
percent of what we send to landfills.
Statistics + Info from the Natural Resource Counsel
Image by Schaumburg’s Sustainable Future

11. The Chicago
Board of Believers

12. CULINARY FIGHT
CLUB
EVENTS RAISE FUNDS FOR
FIGHT2FEED
TO END HUNGER
STARTING WITH OUR

14. AWESOME
CULINARY TALENT!
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FEBRUARY 21, 2104 FIGHT2FEED
BECAME A CHARITABLE
ORGANIZATION IN CHICAGO

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17. What Are we
raising funds for?
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BRINGING
FOOD TO THE
BLOCK WHERE

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HOW CAN WE DO
THAT?
+ + =
TAKE DAILY
SURPLUS FROM
RESTAURANTS,
GROCERS +
FOOD BANK
INVENTORY
FIGHT2FEED
FOOD TRUCK
VOLUNTEERS COOK
FRESH,
SUSTAINABLE +
HEALTHY FOODS
PACKAGE
THEM TO
CARRY
BRING IT TO
THE BLOCKS
WHERE
HUNGER LIVES

20. FIGHT2FEED.ORG
FIGHTING HUNGER 1 BITE AT A TIME
OUR GOAL IS TO GET THE
1ST FIGHT2FEED FOOD
TRUCK TO A CHICAGO
NEIGHBORHOOD
IN NEED BY 2014
…we accomplished our goal on
October 13, 2014 Fight2Feed fed
1004 Hungry ChiTown Friends!
To DATE Fight2Feed has shared over
4000 meals in 4 Missions!
This is our
GOAL to move
our Truck and
Feed the
Hungry.
IMAGINE.

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22. • 2015 Start the CULINARY Fight Club Events in
Atlanta (3/12/15), Portland, New York and Texas
• 2016 Fight2Feed Chapters Georgia + New York,
Set our Chapters to run a Fight2Feed
mission Quarterly
• 2016 Get Fight2Feed Food Truck/s
• 2017 Fight2Feed Nationwide Mission to
Share the Fight
“One Meal, One City, One Year”
THIS IS THE FUTURE

23. FIGHT2FEED
PARTNERS + SPONOSRS

24. FIGHT2FEED
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
 GET INVOLVED
 VOLUNTEER YOUR TIME
 SPONSORSHIP
 DONATIONS
 FUNDRAISERS
 SPREAD THE WORD

25. #FeedItForwa
rd
@Fight2Feed

26. FIGHT2FEED
A Charitable Organization
WWW.FIGHT2FEED.ORG
P: 312-244-3724 E: INFO@FIGHT2FEED.ORG
bringing food 2 where hunger lives