Proceeds from Snoop's cup will benefit the Snoop Youth Football League (SYFL), a Los Angeles-based football club founded by the entertainer himself 6 years ago to help inner-city kids spend their free time in a healthy, safe environment.

A group of friends with the talent and expertise in music, art, and culinary came together to form The Supper Room, a New York City based supper club on a mission to give back.  On Saturday April 24^th The Supper Room hosted a fundraiser dinner in a Williamsburghian loft in Brooklyn, New York, and the proceeds go to benefit the non-profit group Doctors Without Borders. If you think this was just your run-of-the-mill fundraiser with rubber chicken and tasteless vegetables, you are greatly mistaken.  The evening consisted of a five-course meal, an exuberant photographic exhibit, live music, and great conversation.

Here at the MCCN we champion events that combine both food and charity. On May 8, 2010 the inaugural Brothers Who Can Cook pre-Mother’s Day Love Affair will take place in Baltimore, MD. Touted as an expression of love, the event promises to pamper attendees with food, live music, poetry, and comedy. The event will benefit the Ujimma Rising Mentoring Project and Baltimore’s homeless. Recently, MCCN’S food history editor Catrina Sally interviewed the program’s Chief Visionary Officer Bri Ward (Ujimma Masani). Here’s what he shared:

Every year for the last four years, I hold an annual women's garden party event a week before Easter.  In the last three years it has been held at my church but this time three really special things happened.  We encouraged the 70 women who attended the event to bring bags full of women's toiletries for homeless women.  The event garned 75 bags and cash donations.

Article by Simone Baptiste

Amid the snow and ice, the clouds cleared just enough on February 4^th for patrons to attend one of Baltimore’s favorite events —The Chocolate Affair.  Celebrating 19 years, The Chocolate Affair was filled with restaurants, caterers, and franchises from around Maryland and beyond presenting tasty chocolaty treats for all to enjoy.   And while many did enjoy the food, as well as the atmosphere, and the people, the affair is more than an event to satisfy ones sweet tooth, it is an event that satisfies the needs of Baltimore’s Homeless.   Health Care for the Homeless, (HCH) as they are fondly known as, has benefited from the annual Chocolate Affair since 2005.

MCCN’s Marketing Consultant, Simone Baptiste, had the opportunity to speak with Kevin Lindawood, Vice President for External Affairs for Health Care for the Homeless Inc. to find out more about the cause behind the sweet.