• October 19, 2020 | Dallas

  Reopening of Cafe Momentum Sparks Retail Line to Focus on Blackness

  By Allana J. Barefield  Staff Writer  Café Momentum’s doors are reopening on September 24 with the launch of a new retail line. Café Momentum is a nonprofit that teaches youth skills to those who have been released from juvenile detention facilities so they can be safe in the “real world.” Their premise is to eat, drink; […]

• October 19, 2020 | Dallas

  4 Dallas do-gooders get faces plastered on Lay’s potato chips bags

  Four Dallas folks will be featured in a campaign by Lay’s, in which their faces will appear on potato chips bags. The four include a breast cancer survivor, a dentist, a mentor, and a chef. They’re part of a campaign by Plano-based Lay’s to spotlight people who were nominated because they are “actively spreading joy.” […]

• October 19, 2020 | Dallas

  Reasons to Smile: Trash trucks and Cafe Momentum gets a national feature

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• October 19, 2020 | Dallas

  MOMENTUM LIVE

  Café Momentum is going virtual this year as part of its 5th annual signature North Texas Giving Day event, Momentum Live. In partnership with Allstate Insurance, the event is the Dallas nonprofit’s version of a telethon that includes celebrity guests, chefs and musical entertainment, including the Café Momentum interns who will be sharing their talents. […]

• October 19, 2020 | Dallas

  Cheba Hut Arrives In Deep Ellum, Centre Drops A Drink Line, A New Coffee Shop Lands In Deep Ellum And Bam’s Vegan Gets A Brick And Mortar. Plus More!

  Back Downtown, Cafe Momentum is set to reopen on Thursday, September 24. While dine-in seating will be limited to 25 percent, the restaurant has partnered with Favor and rolled out new to-go meal options, as well as a general product line that includes items like their infamous biscuit mix and other pantry staples. Hours will run Thursday through Saturday from 5:30 […]

• October 19, 2020 | Dallas

  Cafe Momentum in downtown Dallas reopens with new way to get biscuits

  The cool downtown Dallas restaurant Café Momentum is reopening, with a little something extra on the side: a new line of its top products — including a mix to make its signature biscuits at home. The restaurant, which is nationally recognized for its program to help at-risk youths, will reopen its dining room on Thursday, September 24. […]

• October 18, 2020 | Dallas

  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, […]

• October 1, 2020 | Dallas

  Dallas’ Cafe Momentum goes nationwide to give even more juvenile offenders a second chance

  The biggest expansion challenge likely will be finding a chef and cheerleader as special as Chad Houser for each new restaurant. Anyone with a heart can think back to the moment when injustice slammed you hard into the realization that “this is not the world I want to live in, I want to be a […]

• July 18, 2020 | Dallas

  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 note […]

• March 29, 2020 | Dallas

  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 […]

• March 29, 2020 | Dallas

  Workers Paid to Help at Food Banks

  By Dominga Gutierrez • Published March 25, 2020 Nonprofit organization, ‘Get Shift Done’, is helping displaced hospitality workers get paid to work at food banks and food distribution centers. “We’ll probably pay about 1,000 different people this week some amount of money,” Get Shift Done Co-Founder Patrick Brandt said. “We’re in no way replacing their income, but it […]

• March 29, 2020 | Dallas

  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 […]