Help Us Build 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.
OPENING JANUARY 2027
For more than a decade, Café Momentum has shown what is possible when young people are given both opportunity and support. Through a paid internship model grounded in real-world work, education, and steady guidance, justice-involved youth build the skills and stability to move forward.
Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of the Meadows Foundation, the Flagship is the next step. In the Wilson Historic District, it will bring our restaurant and Community Services Center into one purpose-built home designed around how young people learn, grow and heal. From the kitchen to the classroom, every element is connected. With expanded space, we will serve more youth, deepen outcomes and open our doors to communities across the country who want to learn from and replicate what Café Momentum has built.
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Beyond the Classroom
With your support, more youth can return to school and stay on track. Our program supports every step from enrollment to post secondary planning to career exploration. Today, 100% of interns re enroll in accredited programs and 67% choose Café Momentum Academy.
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Beyond the Kitchen
We are changing what is possible through career development, wraparound support and real world experience. Youth impacted by the justice system face significant barriers, and are nearly five times more likely to be unemployed. Your investment helps close that gap.
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Beyond the Restaurant
In the heart of Dallas’ Wilson Block Historic District, our new flagship will sit within a powerful nonprofit community. With 32 organizations across arts, education, health and human services, youth and families gain access to critical resources that support lasting change.
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Beyond the City of Dallas
The Café Momentum Flagship will become a national hub for learning and expansion. Already a destination for leaders studying our model, we will grow from hosting four groups each year to 40, accelerating the spread of this work across the country.
we’re grateful to our donors
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 Meadows Foundation
Crystal Charity Ball
Mark Cuban Foundation
Eugene McDermott Foundation
W. W. Caruth, Jr. Foundation Fund
Communities Foundation of Texas
Carol and Kevin March
The Moody Foundation
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
AT&T
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
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.