Month: August 2011

Dining for Life

/ Ren

Austin’s Best Food Event September 12th and 13th

AUSTIN, August 4 2011:  Restaurant reservations are going fast for the 19th annual Dining for Life, voted along with the Hot Sauce Festival as Austin’s Best Food Event in the Austin Chronicle Best of Awards.  Dining for Life is this coming Monday, September 12 and Tuesday, September 13, at select Austin restaurants.

Dining for Life has raised over half a million dollars over the past 19 years, and its power lies in its simplicity: you eat at a participating restaurant and a substantial portion of your tab will directly fund HIV prevention outreach and care services right here in Austin.

The 60-plus participating eateries include Eastside Café, Mother’s Café, Olivia, Wink Restaurant & Wine Bar, Zocalo Café, Foreign & Domestic Food & Drink and Magnolia Café.

Diners are the biggest key to a successful night and Dinner Captains are the liaison between the diners, restaurants and AIDS Services of Austin.

Ann Richards speaks at the first AIDS Walk Austin in 1988

This year’s event offers you the opportunity to be a Dinner Captain by selecting one of your favorite participating restaurants and inviting your friends, family and co-workers to join you in helping to insure the success for both the restaurant and for ASA, whose mission is to respond to needs of the Austin area by providing services that enhance the health and well-being of individuals and the community.

Please visit the website for more information or to register as a Dinner Captain.
Questions? Please feel free to email or call Scott Dinger at scott.dinger AT asaustin.org or call (512) 406-6157

@asaustin

Ethical Consumption – How You Can Help Feed 200 Million Hungry Children

/ Ren

“Of the 24,000 children that die every day from preventable diseases, 60 percent of those deaths are the result of malnutrition and could be avoided if children received the Lauren Waltersprotein and nutrients necessary to help fight the diseases prevalent in the resource-poor countries where they live.

Among the most crucial tools used by Partners In Health to combat childhood malnutrition are ready-to-use foods, such as enriched peanut butter, that provide the essential nutrients needed to save a starving child’s life.

Getting these food packs into the hands of children who need them is the mission of Two Degrees, a health food company devoted to sending one life-saving pack to a child for every snack bar sold in the United States.”  –Partners in Health

Two Degrees says that shoppers looking for healthy, socially-conscious food for their children have a new choice in an all-natural (vegan, gluten-free and non-GMO, I’ve been assured) food bar featuring simple, sustainably-sourced  ingredients such as seeds, nuts and real fruits.  The big difference, however is that company founders Will Hauser and Lauren Walters are the first to adopt the one-for-one business model of social giving to help feed the world’s 200+ million hungry children, donating one medically-formulated nutrition pack to a malnourished child for every one food bar sold.

Working with nonprofit partners Valid Nutrition  and Partners in Health in Malawi, Two Degrees is also expanding into Kenya, where it hopes to quintuple their distribution of the medically-formulated nutrition packs through Shining Hope for Communities.

Two Degrees bars are available online and at various U.S. retailers including Whole Foods.

For more information, please contact

Give Bars, LLC
457 Bryant Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

(415) 913-7566
info @ twodegreesfood.com