About Tacos for a Cause
Our Street Tacos platter is now benefiting our local charities. These platters of 3 tacos on homemade flour or corn tortillas give you a choice to mix and match fillings as you like. Choose from chicken, steak, shrimp, portabello mushrooms, BBQ pulled pork or salmon plus a choice of two side dishes.
Fifty cents of every Street Taco Platter sold is donated to Baal Dan, Lena Pope Home, Operation Kindness – and our 2 new beneficiaries - REAL School Gardens and United Way of Tarrant County. Because of the popularity of these tacos, we are sure our charitable contribution will be greater than ever! We are especially grateful to all of you who have helped us support charities that really make a difference in peoples’ lives.
About Our Charities
Baal Dan – $10,957.50 to date
Baal Dan Charities (In Hindi, “Baal” means “Child” and “Dan” means “Donation”), is a Dallas-based, nonprofit, 501(c)(3) charity that helps children in need in India (There are over 18 million street children in India*). Based on the simple concept of raising money to help street children, orphans and the organizations that help impoverished children (e.g. orphanages, schools, shelters etc.), the charity raises money to buy things in bulk that children can use immediately like food, clothing, medicines and books. Since 2006, when the charity was founded, more than 1,500 children in India have received aid from Baal Dan. For more information, visit www.baaldan.com.
Baal Dan is focused on providing aid in the most simple, direct, efficient and transparent way possible. In India there are already many orphanages and projects that are innovative providing excellent care for children in need, however they are often under-funded, under-staffed and have low awareness or local support. Baal Dan seeks to fill the gaps in aid for these children by providing necessities like food, clothing, blankets and medicines to help increase the quality of life for impoverished children. In addition, the charity raises money to fund school fees for impoverished children to help break the cycle of poverty through quality education.
*Source: United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report, 1993, New York and Government of India, 1991 Census and Financial Times, April 10, 2006).
Lena Pope Home – $34,147.50 to date
Lena Pope Home, Inc. is committed to creating a future of hope for all children and their families by offering preventive and rehabilitative services that strengthen and preserve family life. The goal of Lena Pope Home is to strengthen families and develop resilient children, by helping them make healing changes that can transform their futures. They Provide an effective, comprehensive range of services including family preservation, counseling, alternative education and foster care. The Home works with over 20,000 children and their families a year, and has been serving children and families since 1930. For more information, visit www.lenapopehome.org.
Operation Kindness – $10,900.50 to date
Founded in 1976, Operation Kindness is the oldest and largest no-kill shelter in North Texas. They have saved more than 65,000 animals since our inception.. They care for an average of 200-250 animals on a day-to-day basis, with another 100-120 animals in foster homes. More than 2,800 dogs and cats are adopted from Operation Kindness each year. The mission of Operation Kindness is to provide quality care for homeless or unwanted cats and dogs in a compassionate, no-kill environment until they are adopted into responsible, loving homes, and to be a leader in their community in promoting humane values through education and awareness.
Operation Kindness is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and receives no government funding. All of their income comes from donations from individuals and businesses, adoptions, fundraising events and the sale of pet-related merchandise. For more information, visit www.operationkindness.org.
REAL School Gardens – $2,884.50 to date
REAL School Gardens partners with high-poverty elementary schools to create learning gardens that become an integral part of their teaching culture and community. RSG supports the design and installation of school gardens, trains teachers to use them to improve children’s learning, and builds community around them to nurture support for urban schools. When teachers take learning outdoors, children achieve greater success in school by becoming more engaged learners, more effective team members, and healthier people.
REAL School Gardens currently supports learning gardens at 74 elementary schools across North Texas, providing more than 41,000 children and 2,600 teachers with daily access to impactful, hands-on learning in the outdoors.
United Way of Tarrant County – $1,357.50 to date
United Way of Tarrant County supports services for individuals and families at dozens of local charities and works to create long-term community change in the areas of education, income and health. For more information go to www.unitedwaytarrant.org.
