“MBDs”
It is absolutely part of our mission to make a Benefit Restaurant™ as useful as possible. One significant limitation, of course, of the monthy beneficiary model is that there are only twelve months in a year. With more requests from potential beneficiaries than we can fulfill, we were challenged to figure out how we could do more.
In an effort to accommodate more organizations, including those that don’t fit within our Hunger Relief > Fighting Homelessness > Improving Education > Active Engagement quarterly themes, we’ve added Monday Benefit Dinners [MBDs]to the Benefit Restaurant™ philanthropic model.
Under the MBD program, the Benefit Restaurant™ donates half [50%] of the food and beverage price of a group event to the host’s designated nonprofit organization. Here are the results of the Monday Benefit Dinners held so far:
- October 18, 2010: $729.43 was raised for The Mmofra Trom Bead Project, is an initiative piloted by students at Bentley University that funds high school education costs for vulnerable students in Ghana.
- August 30, 2010: $635.55 was raised for Cans for Care, a Childrens Hospital Boston nurse’s initiative to help develop critical care nurses’ skills at a sister Pediatric ICU in Cambodia.
- July 12, 2010: $577.25 was raised for the Gulf Coast Fund for community renewal and ecological health following the BP oil spill.
- April 19, 2010: Nearly $750 was raised for Buddy Dog Humane Society in Sudbury, Massachusetts.
Please visit The Elephant Walk’s Monday Benefit Dinner Program page for more detailed information.