🌟 For 25 years, men have shown up for our community. This Giving Tuesday, we're asking the community to show up for them.🌟
DON’T JUST GIVE. INVEST IN IMPACT.
For more than 25 years, City Men Cook has demonstrated what happens when men show up—not just with food, but with leadership, mentorship, service, and love for their communities. Now we are asking YOU to show up for them.
This Giving Tuesday, your gift to Taste of the South, Inc. d.b.a. City Men Cook helps us move beyond one extraordinary Father’s Day celebration and expand the work we do throughout the year.
Your investment supports:
CITYMENTOR Connecting young adults with mentors, professional development, life skills, leadership training, and opportunities to build stronger futures.
SUITED & BOOTED
Helping young men and emerging professionals prepare to walk confidently into interviews, careers, and leadership opportunities with professional attire, preparation, and encouragement.
WORKFORCE & CAREER DEVELOPMENT Providing workshops, career readiness, networking, entrepreneurship exposure, and pathways toward economic opportunity.
MEN'S HEALTH & WELLNESS Creating spaces where men can have honest conversations about physical health, mental wellness, personal development, and the challenges they often carry silently.
FAMILY & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Strengthening the connection between men, children, and families through service, mentoring, education, and community activities.
CITY MEN COOK Sustaining our signature Father’s Day experience where men cook, serve, mentor, celebrate families, and raise resources that are reinvested into the community.
Our Goal Is Bigger Than One Day
Giving Tuesday gives us an opportunity to turn one day of
generosity into a year of impact.
We aren't simply asking you to support an event.
We are asking you to help build the next generation of men who will lead families, mentor young people, strengthen communities, and reach back to help somebody else.
WHAT CAN YOUR GIFT DO?
$25 helps provide resources for mentoring and career-development activities.
$50 supports professional-readiness and Suited & Booted programming.
$100 helps provide leadership, mentoring, and workforce-development experiences.
$250 helps expand programming for young adults and families.
$500+ becomes a major investment in our year-round community impact.
And no gift is too small. $5, $10, or $20 multiplied across a community becomes movement money.
HERE'S OUR CHALLENGE TO YOU:
GIVE. GET 5. SHARE.
1. GIVE — Make your Giving Tuesday investment today.
2. GET 5 — Personally ask five friends, family members, or colleagues to give.
3. SHARE — Post the campaign to your social networks and tell people why you believe men, mentors, and families are worth investing in.
Don't simply scroll past another Giving Tuesday appeal.
Become part of what happens next.
Help us mentor another young person.
Help us prepare another man for an opportunity.
Help us strengthen another family.
Help us put another suit on someone's back, another mentor in someone's life, and another possibility in someone's future.
THE MEAL BRINGS US TOGETHER. THE MISSION MOVES US FORWARD.
Give today. Get five others to give. Then challenge them to do the same.
Because when good men are supported, families get stronger, young people see possibilities, and communities move forward.
Giving Activity
Mission
MENTORING LEADERSHIP FATHERHOOD
CashApp $citymencook2 Zelle 3236315199
Needs
Funding is requested to support our general operations and programs with financial support.
Financial support for our culinary boot camp and, which is part of President Barack Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) network of organizations aimed at mentoring youth. CMC is offering fathers and sons an opportunity to bond through hands-on exploration of the culinary arts to food prep, mentoring and initiating proactive dialogue and collaboration inside the family structure. Use the success of previous years to curate culinary events with seasoned and aspiring young men, who can benefit from a natural mentoring process while engaged in the signature event.
Financial support to curate and establish a permanent exhibit for the Honoring Ceremony aptly titled, “A Baker’s Dozen” the installation ceremony of 13 men nominated and voting by the community annually, we are seeking to install the exhibit immediately. In 2022-2023 and allow our students to create the exhibit.
Your generosity matters, and it brings us closer to realizing our dream of touching more lives through City Men Cook. Don't wait; make your North Texas Giving Day donation now and know that you are helping us make a meaningful difference.
Equity Statement
“The men who cook meals for the charities our event supports. are proud to do something they love to give back and connect to their communities and show men in a very positive light.”
We partner with local grassroot non profits who do not have intense marketing and awareness power of mainstream major cause related organization but they are crucial community based organizations that impact local families. Your support allows our signature events to be executed so that these charities can receive increased funding, publicity and increased capacity, Your support reaches these great local organizations.
City Men Cook is not just an event; it's a celebration of community, positive role models, and the inspiration that binds us all. Over the years, we've saved lives through healthy onsite testing, spotlighted and showcased remarkable men, and mentored the next generation. Please give us your gift of a donation and you will have access to our event, our lives and our community. Pick up your City Men Cook mask as a thank-you. Thank you, accepting this call to action.