(S26) - PT 3 - Oh, the Who-manity!

[Pat]

Ever since he was a young child working in his family's restaurant in south Minneapolis, Doy Fieri has seen the importance of giving back to the community. Wherever he has been, from his time in Tijuana and Arizona, to his current home of Philadelphia, he has always tried to help out the less fortunate in the one way he knows how - by feeding them. During the holiday season, Doy works with local chefs and restaurants to put on multiple meals for charity. This year, his big event was the Fieri First Responders Food Fest, in which he invited families of first responders to the Liberty Stadium as he and 9 local chefs in Philadelphia cooked a giant holiday feast for them. In addition to the meal, Fieri also organized a charity dinner put on by the same group of chefs, but this time invited members of the community to come and pay for a seat. They had multiple silent auction items and other ways to gather donations (one was a private wood-working lesson with the one and only @ShnarlyDude , Gary Goodman!). All in all, Fieri was able to raise over $250,000 for Philadelphia first responder charities.

As a child he was brought up to believe that the way he would make an impact in people's lives was through food. When he became an athlete he thought that his dreams of doing so would be put on hold. Doy didn't realize that through his new found celebrity he could still help people with food.