Update on Our Hurricane Response

Applications for Hurricanes Helene and Milton are now closed.

Cases are processed in the order in which they were received. We are distributing weekly updates regarding processing time; please watch for emails from our team!

If you applied for assistance unrelated to these disasters, we are working as quickly as possible to process your case. Please reach out to your case manager directly or casemanagement@southernsmoke.org for any updates. Thank you for your patience during this time of unprecedented volume.

We are so grateful for the outpouring of support, and thanks to generous donors, to date we have granted $680,800 to 487 F+B workers affected by Hurricanes Helene and Milton with 2,500 more being processed.

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Kevin
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Fink
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Kevin Fink owns six nationally renowned restaurants in Austin, Texas: Emmer & Rye, Hestia, Kalimotxo, Henbit, TLV, and Canje. His culinary career began cooking at 13 Gobbi in Florence, Italy, and continued with stints working at the iconic Napa Valley restaurant The French Laundry and staging at Copenhagen, Denmark’s legendary restaurant Noma. Fink opened Emmer & Rye in 2015 and was named one of Food & Wine’s Best New Chefs in 2016. Hestia earned Best New Restaurant in America honors from Robb Report, and Canje was listed as one of The New York Times’ Best Restaurants of 2022.