Café Momentum announces chef and more metro Atlanta restaurant news
By Yvonne Zusel and Olivia Wakim Nov 30, 2024 Cafe Momentum, a nonprofit restaurant employing justice-involved youth, is set to open its Atlanta location at 200 Peachtree St. NE at the beginning of 2025, and it now has a chef to lead operations. Josh Lee has been selected to run the Cafe Momentum kitchen. Lee, a 2022 James Beard […]
These Kids Were Involved With the Justice System. Now, They’ll Run an Atlanta Restaurant.
Nonprofit Cafe Momentum equips young people who have spent time in juvenile detention with restaurant skills and a yearlong paid internship by Henna Bakshi Jul 12, 2024, 12:32pm EDT Henna Bakshi is the editor of Eater Atlanta and an award-winning food and wine journalist. She has a decade of experience producing news at CNN, including food segments and […]
A nonprofit restaurant employing justice-involved youth is coming to Atlanta
Café Momentum, a nonprofit restaurant that employs justice-involved youth, is set to open in Atlanta in 2024. Courtesy of Café Momentum By Olivia Wakim Dec 13, 2023 A new restaurant coming to Atlanta next year will serve casual fine dining food and a new approach to juvenile justice. Café Momentum will be staffed entirely by […]
Press Release: Denver Broncos Foundation Awards Million Dollar Grant to Support Justice-Involved Youth through Café Momentum
Fostering change and breaking the cycle: The grant enables Café MomentumDenver’s 2024 launch, expanding supportive ecosystems for justice-impacted youth See the PDF version here. DENVER, CO, November 10, 2023 – Today, the Momentum Advisory Collective announced a one million dollar grant from the Denver Broncos Foundation to support justice-involved youth through Café Momentum, an award-winning […]
Café Momentum restaurant coming to Nashville in 2023; how it’s already changing lives of justice-involved youth
by: Sierra Rains NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — On any given day, Cameron Carver might be found preparing braised short ribs or pan-roasted scallops for people dinning in downtown Nashville; but four years ago, his life looked very different. At the age of 15, Carver said he dropped out of school to take care of his mother […]
Edible Nashville Fall Farm Dinner helping teens cook up a better future
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (WTVF) — Edible Nashville is hosting its Fall Farm Dinner benefit Friday and Saturday and tickets are still available. The dinner is held three times a year, celebrating local farms and benefiting a different nonprofit. This weekend’s dinner will benefit Cafe Momentum, a program that trains young people who have been through the […]
Southern Smoke brings together top chefs for their three-day festival this weekend
Chris Shepherd and Chef Chad Houser with Cafe Momentum discuss their roles in changing communities for the better HOUSTON — Chris Shepherd‘s Southern Smoke Festival takes place this Friday through Sunday, with the country’s best chefs, live music, tastiest food, and fantastic wine, beer, and cocktails. The three-day event will raise funds and awareness for food […]
Changing Lives Through Culinary Skills
Richard King Mellon Foundation 2021 Annual Report Café Momentum comes to Pittsburgh to help young people move from the criminal-justice system to self-sufficiency. TRISTYN WILLIAMS was 15, pregnant and living in a juvenile rehabilitation center in Texas. The world was closing in on her, and there seemed to be no way forward. She was also […]
Hidden Pearls Podcast – Cafe Momentum – Chad Houser with Emma & Bruce Kittle
In this episode, we go deep into an exploration of how a successful Executive Chef, with over 17 years in the food industry and who had achieved his own dream of owning a 5 Star restaurant, had an awakening while working with some kids in a local juvenile justice center teaching them how to make […]
How the Broncos supported youth coming out of the juvenile justice system by hosting Café Momentum
DENVER — Anyone who attended this year’s Taste of the Broncos presented by King Soopers would tell you that the event was a smashing success. On the grass lawn just outside Empower Field at Mile High, players, fans and community members mingled under the warm glow of string lights. As the crowd danced along to lively […]