An Evening to Benefit COLORS DC & ROC United
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jeremiah lowery
Mar 19, 2015, 9:01:33 AM3/19/15
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An Evening to Benefit the ROC United and COLORS DC
Wednesday, March 25th, 6:00 - 8:30pm
At the future home of COLORS DC, 1100 Florida Ave NW Washington DC
Hear the latest from Saru Jayaraman and others about the Restaurant Opportunity Center (ROC) United’s national One Fair Wage Campaign, including a DC Ballot Initiative), and help to establish a unique community restaurant & hub for building a sustainable food system in DC.
Come see the Raw Space - Enjoy Food by the Florida Avenue Grill - Spend the Evening with Old and New Friends - Try the Signature Cocktail – Leave informed about the One Fair Wage campaign and COLORS DC
Host Committee: Heather Booth, Paul Booth, Ellen Bravo, John Cavenaugh, Gara LaMarche, Elaine Reuben, Jagadish Shukla and others.
Tickets $120*
There is limited space so Buy Your Ticket Today to ensure your spot!
*Purchase of any $120 ticket also gets you an annual Consumer Membership to ROC United and all proceeds benefit ROC United and COLORS DC. Contact els...@rocunited.org if cost is prohibitive.
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Saru Jayaraman is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC-United) and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley. Saru has received numerous awards including CNN’s Top10 Visionary Women award, the White House “Champions of Change” Award, and the Campaign for America's Future, Paul Wellstone Citizen Leadership Award, all in 2014. Saru is the author of 'Behind the Kitchen Door' and has a forthcoming book due to be released in 2016.
The Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United seeks to improve wages and working conditions for restaurant workers nationwide. Since 2001 ROC has grown into a national restaurant workers’ organization with close to 14,000 low-wage restaurant worker members, 120 employer partners, and several thousand consumer members in 32 localities nationwide.
COLORS is a restaurant owned and operated by ROC United with locations in New York and Detroit and coming soon to Washington DC. COLORS connects the economic empowerment of low-wage workers to the promotion of healthy environments and communities, and helps build a sustainable food system. COLORS DC will not only be a restaurant, it will be a community hub and home to --
A Restaurant Training Facility: The COLORS Hospitality Opportunities for Workers (CHOW) Institute is a unique workforce-development program that provides low-wage restaurant workers with skills to advance to livable-wage positions.
Co-op Incubation Academy: Training and mentorship for ROC members to launch worker-owned food businesses.
Culinary Academy: A collaboration with Mark Bittman to create a Bittman Culinary Curriculum for COLORS
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Wednesday, March 25th, 6:00 - 8:30pm
At the future home of COLORS DC, 1100 Florida Ave NW Washington DC
Hear the latest from Saru Jayaraman and others about the Restaurant Opportunity Center (ROC) United’s national One Fair Wage Campaign, including a DC Ballot Initiative), and help to establish a unique community restaurant & hub for building a sustainable food system in DC.
Come see the Raw Space - Enjoy Food by the Florida Avenue Grill - Spend the Evening with Old and New Friends - Try the Signature Cocktail – Leave informed about the One Fair Wage campaign and COLORS DC
Host Committee: Heather Booth, Paul Booth, Ellen Bravo, John Cavenaugh, Gara LaMarche, Elaine Reuben, Jagadish Shukla and others.
Tickets $120*
There is limited space so Buy Your Ticket Today to ensure your spot!
*Purchase of any $120 ticket also gets you an annual Consumer Membership to ROC United and all proceeds benefit ROC United and COLORS DC. Contact els...@rocunited.org if cost is prohibitive.
__________________________
Saru Jayaraman is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC-United) and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley. Saru has received numerous awards including CNN’s Top10 Visionary Women award, the White House “Champions of Change” Award, and the Campaign for America's Future, Paul Wellstone Citizen Leadership Award, all in 2014. Saru is the author of 'Behind the Kitchen Door' and has a forthcoming book due to be released in 2016.
The Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United seeks to improve wages and working conditions for restaurant workers nationwide. Since 2001 ROC has grown into a national restaurant workers’ organization with close to 14,000 low-wage restaurant worker members, 120 employer partners, and several thousand consumer members in 32 localities nationwide.
COLORS is a restaurant owned and operated by ROC United with locations in New York and Detroit and coming soon to Washington DC. COLORS connects the economic empowerment of low-wage workers to the promotion of healthy environments and communities, and helps build a sustainable food system. COLORS DC will not only be a restaurant, it will be a community hub and home to --
A Restaurant Training Facility: The COLORS Hospitality Opportunities for Workers (CHOW) Institute is a unique workforce-development program that provides low-wage restaurant workers with skills to advance to livable-wage positions.
Co-op Incubation Academy: Training and mentorship for ROC members to launch worker-owned food businesses.
Culinary Academy: A collaboration with Mark Bittman to create a Bittman Culinary Curriculum for COLORS
Jeremiah Lowery
Research and Policy Coordinator
Research and Policy Coordinator
Work: 240-772-1356
Cell: 240-475-4009
Cell: 240-475-4009
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