Taste of the South, Inc. d.b.a. City Men Cook

WHO WE ARE

🌟 For 25 years, men have shown up for our community. This Giving Tuesday, we're asking the community to show up for them.🌟

DON’T JUST GIVE. INVEST IN IMPACT.

For more than 25 years, City Men Cook has demonstrated what happens when men show up—not just with food, but with leadership, mentorship, service, and love for their communities. Now we are asking YOU to show up for them.

This Giving Tuesday, your gift to Taste of the South, Inc. d.b.a. City Men Cook helps us move beyond one extraordinary Father’s Day celebration and expand the work we do throughout the year.

Your investment supports:

CITYMENTOR
Connecting young adults with mentors, professional development, life skills, leadership training, and opportunities to build stronger futures.

SUITED & BOOTED

Helping young men and emerging professionals prepare to walk confidently into interviews, careers, and leadership opportunities with professional attire, preparation, and encouragement.

WORKFORCE & CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Providing workshops, career readiness, networking, entrepreneurship exposure, and pathways toward economic opportunity.

MEN'S HEALTH & WELLNESS
Creating spaces where men can have honest conversations about physical health, mental wellness, personal development, and the challenges they often carry silently.

FAMILY & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Strengthening the connection between men, children, and families through service, mentoring, education, and community activities.

CITY MEN COOK
Sustaining our signature Father’s Day experience where men cook, serve, mentor, celebrate families, and raise resources that are reinvested into the community.

Our Goal Is Bigger Than One Day

Giving Tuesday gives us an opportunity to turn one day of 

generosity into a year of impact. 

We aren't simply asking you to support an event.

We are asking you to help build the next generation of men who will lead families, mentor young people, strengthen communities, and reach back to help somebody else.

WHAT CAN YOUR GIFT DO?

$25 helps provide resources for mentoring and career-development activities.

$50 supports professional-readiness and Suited & Booted programming.

$100 helps provide leadership, mentoring, and workforce-development experiences.

$250 helps expand programming for young adults and families.

$500+ becomes a major investment in our year-round community impact.

And no gift is too small. $5, $10, or $20 multiplied across a community becomes movement money.

HERE'S OUR CHALLENGE TO YOU:

GIVE. GET 5. SHARE.

1. GIVE — Make your Giving Tuesday investment today.

2. GET 5 — Personally ask five friends, family members, or colleagues to give.

3. SHARE — Post the campaign to your social networks and tell people why you believe men, mentors, and families are worth investing in.

Don't simply scroll past another Giving Tuesday appeal.

Become part of what happens next.

Help us mentor another young person.

Help us prepare another man for an opportunity.

Help us strengthen another family.

Help us put another suit on someone's back, another mentor in someone's life, and another possibility in someone's future.

THE MEAL BRINGS US TOGETHER. THE MISSION MOVES US FORWARD.

Give today. Get five others to give. Then challenge them to do the same.

Because when good men are supported, families get stronger, young people see possibilities, and communities move forward.