5 Restaurants Serving Great Food For Good Causes
If you’re going out to eat, it’s a good idea to find a restaurant dedicated to helping a great cause. From pay-what-you-can cafes to those providing job training, there are many places to dine that give back to local communities. In no particular order, here are several delicious restaurants that also embrace philanthropy. First up, […]
BIPOC Awareness Month 2020
July is Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, also known as BIPOC (Blacks, Indigenous People, and People of Color) Mental Health Month. This is a month dedicated to promoting better mental health treatment for minority members and removing the stigma surrounding mental health care that keeps many individuals from asking for help. Please […]
Dallas restaurants can’t stop won’t stop giving during the worst times
By Teresa Gubbins | Mar 27, 2020, 1:17 pm The coronavirus epidemic has brought out the best in some Dallas people — some Dallas restaurant people — with so many charitable acts that another list needs to be made. This roundup includes meals for kids, meals for the homeless, and meals for the unemployed. And all of […]
The at-risk teens at Dallas’ Cafe Momentum show the way forward amid the coronavirus — let’s help them
By Sharon Grigsby 10:36 AM on Mar 23, 2020 Like all of you, I’m struggling to navigate the blind corner after blind corner that the coronavirus is throwing down as it cuts through our lives. Each time panic starts to creep in, what most steadies me is contemplating who I want to be in the midst […]
Los Angeles Rams continue to inspire at Camarillo youth facility, now with a foodie twist
A relationship between a pro football team and a youth correctional institution outside Camarillo has, for the past year and a half, bloomed in unexpected ways. The Los Angeles Rams first visited the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility in May 2018, when a high-profile “Cleats for Character” session brought current and former players from the NFL team to the campus for […]
CowBuzz: A Closer Look At ‘My Cause, My Cleats’
For three years, the NFL’s My Cause, My Cleats campaign has given players the opportunity to shine light on charitable causes each player is passionate about. The #MyCauseMyCleats campaign lets the players collaborate with shoe designers to fashion a pair of priceless cleats that you might have seen during Week 14’s game against the Chicago Bears. The […]
A first for industry of second chances: Corrections Department teams up
Irina Erickson looked at home serving up mulligatawny at the final lunch at HospitalityMaine’s annual summit at Sugarloaf in early November. Dressed in a black tunic, she chatted and served up cups of soup with the comfort of a food service industry veteran. But she and four other servers at the Nov. 5 lunch were […]
Dallas Observer: THE 100 BEST DALLAS RESTAURANTS OF 2020 /// CAFE MOMENTUM
When we first visited Cafe Momentum, we were concerned the restaurant gets graded on a curve. A nonprofit, the business employs juvenile offenders and pays them fair, living wages to help teach them life skills, leadership and, of course, how to work in a restaurant. How could a food writer be objective about the quality […]
Serving Up Opportunity
“The idea here is to create an ecosystem of support for the kids on all the issues and barriers that have prevented them from achieving their full potential in life,” founder and chef Chad Houser says. The program started in 2009 when Houser taught some kids in detention to make ice cream for a competition. […]
#SomethingGood: North Texas Food Truck Employs At-Risk Kids
She’s a food truck owner doing something good in the community. “We are a small business with a social mission,” said Ashlee Kleinert, owner of Ruthie’s Food Trucks. “I’ve had a grilled cheese food truck business for nine years. The business has grown each year and it became more of a grind each year rather […]