• 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 […]

• March 29, 2020 | Dallas

  How Dallas Restaurants Are Giving Back to the Community During the Pandemic — And How You Can Help Them

  It is especially difficult for Dallas restaurants right now. Yes, they can still deliver and offer take-out, even when the Shelter-In-Place order begins at midnight, but it’s still going to be tough. When adversity comes though, always “look for the helpers,” as Mr. Rogers would often say. And we’ve got plenty of helpers in Dallas. […]

• March 29, 2020 | Dallas

  NFL athletes support formerly-incarcerated youth at transformative Super Bowl dinner

  As crowds gathered and athletes converged in Miami for the Super Bowl this weekend, some unlikely partners joined together for a unique dinner that has the potential to spark a national movement and inspire change within juvenile justice. In partnership with the Players Coalition and the NFL’s Inspire Change initiative, Stand Together hosted a pop-up […]

• March 29, 2020 | Dallas

  It’s Time to Rethink Juvenile Justice in America

  It’s Time to Rethink Juvenile Justice in America BY MARK HOLDEN February 12, 2020 For years, the United States suffered under the weight of failed “tough-on-crime” policies, finally admitting defeat over the last decade to more policies that are smart on crime and soft on taxpayers. We have learned that rehabilitation and redemption can enhance public […]

• February 13, 2020 | Dallas

  Cafe Momentum Celebrates First Graduates Thanks to Sharp, New Teacher

  Café Momentum has been propelling teenagers to a better life since Chad Houser started the non-profit a few years ago. “Café Momentum started out as a series of pop up dinners until we opened our own brick and mortar location in January of 2015,” said Margaret Windham, chief operating and developing officer. “So, we have operated […]

• January 2, 2020 | Dallas

  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 […]

• January 2, 2020 | Dallas

  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 […]

• January 2, 2020 | Dallas

  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 […]