September Charity of the Month: For Love of Children

 

Since 1965, For Love of Children has served more than 10,000 children and youth. FLOC provides educational services beyond the classroom to help students succeed from first grade through college and career, and brings together students, volunteers, families, and community partners in proven programs that teach, empower, and transform. The nonprofit’s services are free to students from low-income families in the District of Columbia and West Virginia, and we’re thrilled to feature them as our September charity of the month. Please help us support their vital work!

Help us support For Love of Children's incredible work!
 
For each charity-themed cupcake— a Peanut Butter & Jelly Cupcake—sold this month, we’ll donate 50 cents to support For Love of Children and their mission. Eat vegan cupcakes for charity!
 
And, mark your calendars! Please join us for brunch in honor of For Love of Children on Sat, September 17, from 9a to 2.30p. We’ll be serving incredible savory and drink specials, including Peanut Butter Cup Pancakes and Chocolate Banana Milkshakes. For each special sold, we’ll happily donate a portion to For Love of Children so come eat, drink, and support this amazing charity!

www.floc.org
FB: @forloveofchildren
TW: @FLOC_DC

Food & Water Watch: Our August Charity of the Month

Since 2005, Food & Water Watch, our August charity of the month, has worked tirelessly to help build a powerful grassroots movement that can protect our most important resources and bring about positive and lasting change for the environment. Advocating for common sense policies that improve the way our food is grown and produced, and make our drinking water safe and affordable, the nonprofit takes on campaigns that make a difference in people’s lives -- and they win.

Help us support Food & Water Watch's incredible work!
 
For each charity-themed cupcake— a blue velvet cupcake —sold this month, we’ll donate 50 cents to support Food & Water Watch and their mission. Eat vegan cupcakes for charity!
 
And, mark your calendars! Please join us for brunch in honor of Food & Water Watch on Sat, August 20, from 9a to 2.30p. We’ll be serving incredible savory and drink specials, including Strawberry Cheesecake Stuffed French Toast and Blueberry Milkshakes. For each special sold, we’ll happily donate a portion to Food & Water Watch so come eat, drink, and support this amazing charity!

www.foodandwaterwatch.org
FB + IG: @FoodandWaterWatch
TW: @foodandwater

July Charity of the Month: Casey Trees

Founded in 2002, Casey Trees, our July charity of the month, has planted more than 23,000 trees in Washington, D.C. This spectacular nonprofit’s mission is beautiful and simple: to restore, enhance, and protect the tree canopy of the nation’s capital. They do this not only by planting trees, but engaging thousands of volunteers of all ages in tree planting and care, providing year-round continuing education courses, monitoring the city’s tree canopy, and working with elected officials, developers, and community groups to protect and care for existing trees and to encourage the addition of new ones.

Help us support Casey Trees' incredible work!
 
For each charity-themed cupcake— a chocolate or vanilla cupcake with a fondant leave —sold this month, we’ll donate 50 cents to support Casey Trees & their mission. Eat vegan cupcakes for charity!
 
And, mark your calendars! Please join us for brunch in honor of Casey Trees on Sat, July 16, from 9a to 2.30p. We’ll be serving incredible savory and drink specials. For each special sold, we’ll happily donate a portion to Casey Trees so come eat, drink, and support this amazing health charity!
 
Learn more and get involved: www.caseytrees.org
 
Thank you for your compassion and advocacy!

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine: Our June Charity of the Month

Our June charity of the month, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, has been leading a revolution in medicine—putting a new focus on health and compassion—since 1985. Combining the clout and expertise of more than 12,000 physicians with the dedicated actions of 150,000 members across the country and around the world, this health charity has been dramatically changing the way doctors treat chronic diseases and working tirelessly for alternatives to the use of animals in medical education and research, and advocating for more effective scientific methods.

Throughout June, enjoy an Apple Pie cupcake (spice cake topped with apple pie filling & vanilla frosting, and we'll donate 50 cents from each to PCRM.

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Join us on Saturday, June 25, for a very special brunch. 

You can learn more about the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine by visiting them at: 
www.pcrm.org
FB: @pcrm.org
TW: @pcrm
 

May Charity of the Month: the Washington Humane Society

We can’t even imagine what our city would be like without the Washington Humane Society, our May charity of the month. The only Congressionally-chartered animal welfare agency in the entire country, WHS has been helping animals since 1870. Every year, the charity comforts and cares for more than 51,000 animals. WHS provides shelter for homeless animals, runs a comprehensive adoption program, provides low-cost spay and neuter, manages an aggressive TNR program for feral cats, investigates every allegation of animal cruelty or neglect through the Humane Law Enforcement, and much more. Help us support WHS’s critical work for the animals in our nation’s capital.

Throughout May, enjoy a dog bone charity-themed cupcake, and we'll donate 50 cents from each to the WHS.

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Join us on Saturday, May 28, for a very special brunch. A portion of sales of these delicious specials will be donated to the WHS:

• BAGEL SANDWICH:  tempeh bacon, tofu egg & cashew cheddar on a bagel served with a side of roasted potatoe
• STRAWBERRY MILKSHAKE: made with your choice of soy or coconut ice cream

See you for our benefit brunch on Sat, May 28!

You can learn more about the Washington Humane Society by visiting them at: www.washhumane.org
FB: WashHumane
TW & IG: Wash_Humane

The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation: Our April Charity of the Month

Our April charity of the month is innovative, creative, inspiring, and literally feeding the world. The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to planting edible, fruitful trees and plants to benefit the environment and all its inhabitants. Their goal is straightforward: to collectively plant 18 billion fruit trees for a healthy planet (approximately 3 for every person alive). Fruit trees heal the environment by cleaning the air, improving soil quality, preventing erosion, creating animal habitat, sustaining valuable water sources, and providing healthy nutrition. 

FTPF programs strategically donate orchards where the harvest will best serve communities for generations to follow, at places such as public schools (“Fruit Tree 101”), city parks and community gardens (“Communities Take Root”), low-income neighborhoods and international hunger relief sites (“Fruit Relief”), Native American reservations (“Trees for Tribes”), health centers (“Roots of Recovery”), and animal sanctuaries (“Orchards for Animals”).

In 2015 alone, the FTPF planted more than 22,000 trees, held 117 orchard events, trained more than 2,000 tree planters, and inspired more than 2,000 students. Their efforts produced 3.9 million pounds of oxygen and 1.1 billion pounds of harvest for families in just a single year.

March Charity of the Month: Reading Partners

Reading is the foundation for future learning and success. Reading Partners DC, our March charity of the month, provides one-on-one reading instruction to elementary school students reading below grade level to help them succeed in school and in life. A national charity with a local D.C. chapter, Reading Partners partners with under-resourced schools and engages volunteer reading partner tutors.

We’ll donate 50 cents for each charity-themed Peanut Butter & Jelly cupcake sold this month to support Reading Partners work.

Learn more and get involved: http://www.readingpartners.org
FB: ReadingPartners.org
TW: @readingpartners

The Humane League: Our February 2016 Charity of the Month

The Humane League, our Feb 2016 charity of the month, has a single mission: to reduce animal suffering by inspiring change at all levels. This sense of purpose drives every action in their unrelenting march forward for animals. Pragmatic, ever-expanding, a recognized source of information and encouragement to help people make choices that will reduce animal suffering, and a powerful advocate for reform at the corporate and institutional level through hard-hitting animal welfare campaigns—these are all reasons The Humane League has earned a Top Charity recommendation four years running from Animal Charity Evaluators.

We’ll donate 50 cents for each charity-themed cupcake sold this month to support The Humane League’s important work on behalf of animals. Eat vegan cupcakes for charity!

And, mark your calendars! Please join us for brunch in honor of The Humane League on Sun, Feb 21, with incredible savory & drinks specials.

Learn more and get involved: http://www.thehumaneleague.com

FB & TW & IG: thehumaneleague

Thank you for your compassion and advocacy!

January Charity of the Month: Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network, our January 2016 charity of the month, has campaigned for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global marketplace through education grassroots organizing and non-violent direct action. Since 1985, RAN has been fighting for people and the planet by working at the intersection of three core issues: preserving rainforests, protecting the climate, and defending human rights—all through the lens of corporate accountability.

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We’ll donate 50 cents for each charity-themed cupcake sold this month to support RAN’s important campaigns. Eat vegan cupcakes for charity!

And, mark your calendars! Please join us for a special brunch in honor of RAN on Sun, Jan 31. 

Learn more and get involved: RAN.ORG.

Thank you for your compassion and advocacy!

A Fare Well Open House @ Prequel

Want to learn more about investing in Fare Well, our forthcoming bakery + diner + bar? Join us at our Open House on Fri, Jan 15, from 6.00p to 7.30p at Prequel (918 F St NW DC).

Chef-owner Doron Petersan and the Fare Well team will serve samples from our sweet, savory, and cocktail menus, talk about our vision for the new H Street restaurant, and answer questions about the business from potential investors.

Get your ticket today! (Those who invest in the EquityEats campaign prior to the event on the 15th are invited to attend the Open House at no additional cost.)

Learn more about becoming a Partner in Food with food credits or more traditional investing and get more details on our event and campaign with Prequel.