Olympian Mirai Nagasu Teams with Crowdfund Initiative to Help Parents' Restaurant Struggling in Pandemic — & Feed the Community
Those headline-grabbing skills have been put to unexpected use duringthat has shuttered numerous businesses and stranded millions of workers.
After Mirai learned that Kiyosuzu was struggling during the shutdown , she helped connect her parents with the Washington, D.C.-based— a fundraising initiative to support restaurants who in turn use their business to feed first responders, non-profits and other community members. “My whole career has been about me and my goals and my dreams, and then to be able to take my fame gained in my skating and put it toward my parents and to try to get more awareness for Power of 10 so we can help other restaurants in the area means so much to me,” Mirai tells PEOPLE.
The math is appealingly simple: With donations as small as $10, a restaurant will be able to pay for both employees and meal costs, with $10,000 funding a week of 1,000 meals and 10 full-time workers.in late March. Mirai — who was connected to Bruner-Yang by a mutual friend — helped them expand to their first Los Angeles-area restaurant.
Starting this week, Kiyosuzu began delivering hundreds of meals and Mirai says the plan is to use Power of 10’s funding for the month and to look at supporting other L.A. restaurants.“Being able to be their voice is something that’s really important to me,” Mirai says of her mom and dad, who had long been comfortable keeping their restaurant separate from the spotlight on her skating.
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