The Café Momentum Flagship
With your support, we’re creating the Café Momentum Flagship – a $10 million transformative space that will empower justice-involved youth and expand our impact nationwide.
more than a building
Café Momentum’s mission is to transform young lives by equipping our community’s justice-involved youth with life skills, education and opportunities to help them achieve their full potential.
The Café Momentum Flagship will be located in Dallas’s Wilson Historic District on the Meadows Campus, a vibrant hub of over 33 nonprofits providing arts, education and health resources. This collaborative ecosystem will amplify our impact, offering interns and families generational opportunities for growth.
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Beyond the Classroom
We are breaking down the barriers that typically keep two-thirds of youth involved in the justice system from returning to school.
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Beyond the Kitchen
We are changing the narrative through comprehensive career development, wraparound support, and real-world experience.
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Beyond the Restaurant
We are expanding our ecosystem to create deeper, more lasting impact for our interns and their families.
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Beyond the City of Dallas
We are creating more opportunities for changemakers to experience our approach firsthand.
we’re grateful to our donors
The Meadows Foundation
Crystal Charity Ball
Mark Cuban Foundation
Eugene McDermott Foundation
W. W. Caruth, Jr. Foundation Fund
Carol and Kevin March
Wilson Sheehan Foundation
Anonymous
The Hoglund Foundation
Hillcrest Foundation
The Perot Family
PKW Donor Advised Fund at The Dallas Foundation
Hersh Foundation
Carol and Chris Porter
Hoblitzelle Foundation
Anonymous
John R. McCune Charitable Trust
mikeroweWORKS
Katherine C. Carmody Charitable Trust
Esping Family Foundation
Gigi Gartner
Peter Miller
Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation
Robert Rudine and Janet Yoder
Mark Foundation
The Buford Foundation
Bank of America Charitable Foundation
Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation
Carrie and Steven Parsons
Angie and Jeremy Carpenter
The Roy & Christine Sturgis Charitable Trust
Texas Bar Foundation
The Florence Foundation
Alicia and Kevin McGlinchey
Billy and Dodee Crockett Donor Advised Fund at the Dallas Foundation
James Beard, The Michael Phillips Humanitarian Fund
Jennifer and Mark Gunnin
LDWW Group Marketing & Communications L.P.
Nancy and Ken Luce
Aileen and Jack Pratt Foundation
Tracy Ann Dulworth Fund at The Dallas Foundation
Della and Robert Best
Carolyn and Karl Rathjen
Kristy and Raymond Faus
James Johnson
The Bishop Giving Fund
Traci Bentley
Chad O'Connor
Rebecca Segel
Coley Keogh
Howard Miller
Andrea Davis
Jessica Lamb
David Westby
Stanely Balis
Carla Wood
Cindy Pierre
We’re deeply grateful for every investor who believes in this work. Your support fuels real change, helping justice-involved youth gain stability, education and economic pathways that carry forward for generations.
The Café Momentum Flagship is poised to become a national destination for learning and innovation in youth development and justice reform. By investing in this project, we are not only transforming the lives of young people in Dallas but also paving the way for a paradigm shift in how we approach youth empowerment and justice reform nationwide.