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Last week, while listening to the radio, I heard that Chili’s Grill & Bar is raising funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. During the month of September, you can contribute by making a donation, for which you’ll receive a Create-A-Pepper coloring sheet. Completed coloring sheets will be proudly displayed in restaurants for the month of September.
St. Jude is a hospital that treats children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases. It’s also a place where all patients accepted for treatment are treated without regard to the family’s ability to pay. So, I thought that it would be great if we can help out.
So, I started thinking, maybe we can get a bunch of people to eat at Chili’s and make donations, before September ends? I talked about this idea with Mark Arevalo last week. Mark suggested that we do a Giving 2.0 dinner at Chili’s. So, I set up an event on Upcoming.org for dinner at Chili’s in Mountain View. Join us for dinner, donating, and getting creative. 
Today I attended Lunch 2.0 at RockYou. I got there pretty late, which was great because I had an ulterior motive. What was my ulterior motive? Well, it was seeing if they had leftovers at the ending of Lunch 2.0 and asking if they would be willing to donate the food to the St. Vincent de Paul Society.
My plan worked out perfectly! I was able to meet and chat with some great people and eat some yummy pizza. Then, Terry introduced me to Sandy, who organized the event and works for RockYou. Sandy was generous enough to offer 3 large boxes of pizza, from Mr. Pizza Man, to donate. I took the pizza to the St. Vincent de Paul Society and got a donation receipt. I’ll be mailing the donation receipt back to RockYou this evening.
I’ve been in touch with Nicole at ThisNext and Donna at OPCC this week to find out how Lunch 2.0 and Giving 2.0 went last Friday. I hear it went very well.
Nicole said that they had a bunch of food left over from Versailles. She was able to donate 5 large metal trays of Cuban food to OPCC. Yum!
Donna said that they were very happy to receive the food at the shelter and thanked ThisNext and Giving 2.0 for making the donation.
Also, Andrew Warner has posted a great article about How Lunch 2.0 came to Southern California and some nice photos to accompany it.
Thank you ThisNext!
If you’re in the Santa Monica area this Friday, check out Lunch 2.0 at ThisNext. I had a chance to talk with the PR Director at ThisNext, Nicole Jordan. We had a good chat about leftover Lunch 2.0 food and she was generous enough to offer the leftovers to be donated to a nearby charity. So, I found a local charity called the OPCC. OPCC stands for Ocean Park Community Center. They empower people to rebuild their lives. I called them to make sure they accept donations of food, and of course they do. They were so happy to hear that the leftovers from Lunch 2.0 might be donated next Friday. I can’t wait to hear how it goes.
