Lahaina Grill

08/31/2023

https://www.eifoundation.org/peoples-fund-of-maui/

People’s Fund of Maui is providing direct financial assistance to Maui community members experiencing devastating losses from the fires in Lahaina and Kula.

08/27/2023

UPDATE: Saturday 8/26/23 - Mahalo from the bottom of our hearts for your continued support and for sharing this go fund me with your communities worldwide - the outpouring of love and empathy is overwhelming to our entire 'ohana.

$495,000 of your gifted funds have been transferred into our Bank of Hawaii designated account that we have set up for these funds. The individual checks to our employees have been distributed in person by Brittany (Lahaina Grill general manager) and me and have been direct deposited into their personal bank accounts. We have also mailed distribution checks via USPS priority mail with tracking to our co-workers who are sheltered with family on the mainland.

We will continue to transfer new funds as they are received to our employees based on need. The words "Thank you" cannot begin to cover everything that you have done to support these families with their first crucial steps after a horrific disaster like this. --Ally

https://www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-help-lahaina-grill-employees-families

08/25/2023

UPDATE Thursday 8/24/23: We are so thankful for the opportunity to see so many of our team in person, give hugs and hand them your donation checks. Brittany (Lahaina Grill General Manager) and I spent all day yesterday and today handing out your donations directly to them. We are also making direct deposits into local bank accounts if people are unable to travel to Kahului.

As of 3pm today we have distributed 75% of the total funds raised directly to the team.

We will continue to update you here as we continue this effort.
Mahalo again for everything that you have done to make this possible -- it is truly amazing.
-- Ally

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08/21/2023

UPDATE Monday, 8/21/23 10am: Thank you for your patience as we navigate the receipt and distribution of your generous donations.

The past few days have been filled with so many employee conversations and meetings, help with moving employees into donated hotel rooms and other accommodations. This morning our representative at Go Fund Me has shared that we are now able to process your funds to a local Bank of Hawaii account for distribution 8/24/23-8/25/23 most likely.

Thank you for your love and support of our whole team. I will continue to share updates with you here. I apologize to all who have written messages on social media to no response, we have not been monitoring our social channels and are staying focused on accessing the donations and distribution of funds to the families. Mahalo for your support -- Ally

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08/18/2023

LAHAINA GRILL EMPLOYEES RELIEF FUND - GO FUND ME UPDATE 8/17/23 - 12pm
To each of you who have shared our link and donated to our team in this tragic time, we are so grateful to you. This is the current status on the distribution of funds to the staff.

As there are so many people impacted on our team we are speaking and/or meeting with every individual and asking these 5 questions:

⁃ Was your home lost in the fire?
⁃ Were you able to recover any personal items from your home?
⁃ Did you lose your vehicle or mode of transportation?
⁃ If your home did not burn, can you return to live there or do you need to move immediately and find housing?
⁃ How many in your family / household were living with you and do you support?

After carefully gathering this information we will distribute all of the donated funds based on need.

Thank you for the outpouring of support, we promise to continue updating all of you here.

So many of you have reached out in search of the best way to help. Our… Ally Mattox needs your support for Donate to help Lahaina Grill Employees & Families

08/16/2023

UPDATE 8/15/23: Aloha all … Yesterday and today we had meetings with our employees one-on-one at Bank of Hawaii in Kahului. They have generously donated a room with wifi and power making us much more accessible. We have set up our laptops and are helping to file FEMA and secure their registration ID’s, opening claims for starting unemployment benefits and helping to contact their banks. We are gathering data on each family and the details of their loss. We will continue this effort through the week and share this pertinent data with Go Fund Me prior to the release of funds. In the immediate term we are handing out money for urgent needs, replacing cel phones, sourcing clothing, medicine and anything else needed.

It is cathartic for us to give and receive big hugs in person and cry as well as be productive in making these steps forward. We are a strong ‘ohana and we are all in this together.

We are so thankful for Bank of Hawaii and their immediate and generous donation of the space, Rian DuBach and Brandon Higashi and the whole team at Kahului Branch.

Our hearts go out to every donor on the fund and we feel your love surrounding us in this effort.

08/14/2023

UPDATE 8/13/23 8pm: As soon as I returned from town tonight, I sat down and opened our go fund me site and cannot believe how you have all shared. It is truly unbelievable.

Today, we worked to support employees sheltering at churches in the Kahului area to share our love and discuss their health, safety, supplies, sleeping situations, status of their young children and much more. For those that escaped the fires in Lahaina with nothing, we went to purchase diapers, undergarments, medications, the many things that have run out in the donation piles at their shelters. Most of these items we all take for granted in our daily lives. Not any more.

Tomorrow morning, Bank of Hawaii has generously donated a temporary office to us for the week and we will meet individually with the staff of Lahaina Grill, Hotel Lahaina and Lahaina Ice Cream Parlour (our 'ohana) to gather details about their losses, their homes, their transportation and help to file unemployment and learn about FEMA and they will use our computers to get set up on these lists.

When our compiled employee list is complete with all of these details we will submit it to Go Fund Me and the funds will start to be released. We will make our first distributions as soon as that happens.

I hope that reading this helps you just a little bit, we all feel you here with us through your donations and your sharing with your communities. I wish I had more time to reach out and talk to you in person and hear the awesome stories that you have about the great times at Lahaina Grill, we were so lucky to host you and know you for all of these years. One day at a time...

So many of you have reached out in search of the best way to help. Our… Ally Mattox needs your support for Donate to help Lahaina Grill Employees & Families

08/13/2023

UPDATE 8/12/2023:

Aloha from Maui,

We wanted to give an update 8/12/23, we have located EVERY EMPLOYEE OF LAHAINA GRILL, HOTEL LAHAINA and LAHAINA ICE CREAM PARLOUR and they are ALIVE and SAFE as of 10am this morning, the final two were located.

We are filled with great relief and there are no words to describe this.

We have shifted focus to providing emotional and physical support and distributing your funds and assisting with FEMA filing, and other things to help start to stabilize each family and identify each of their needs one day at a time.

We are helping to immediately move our employees from shelters to stay with friends, family, loved ones and in our homes in Kihei, town, upcountry and north shore.

We are so thankful for your donations and if you will continue to share our link on social media we can help in a more meaningful way to each family.

We are all overwhelmed with the power of the Lahaina Grill guests and ohana, your generosity is incredible. We love you.

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So many of you have reached out in search of the best way to help. Our… Ally Mattox needs your support for Donate to help Lahaina Grill Employees & Families

08/11/2023

Please help if you can
Lahaina Grill Employee Fire Recovery (link in bio) go fund me