Legends LIVE!
A Fundraising Event for Compassionate Chefs Cafe You Are Invited to Join Us for Conversations, Music and Food with Musical Legends and Celebrity Chefs
Local music students will also be part of our guest list to participate as audience members. They will be encouraged to interact with the musicians to learn about music history and careers.
About Compassionate Chefs Café
WHO: Compassionate Chefs Café is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (Tax ID: 94-3136771) based in San Francisco and is dedicated to helping children across the street at the Tenderloin After School Program (TASP) and across the ocean at the Manav Sadhna, Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad, India. TASP provides valuable services to kids of families living in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco and serves as a shelter from the street culture and many harmful influences that abound in this area. TASP provides kids with a safe space in which they can play and study, and get the proper support and also training necessary to succeed in life.
WHAT: Compassionate Chefs Cafe is producing a series of four live recorded conversations with four legendary musicians who all share a deep love of the Bay Area. In addition to the conversation about music, there will be a journey of flavor memories using the chef-created dish as a leaping-off point. There will be a total of four episodes with four musicians and chefs recorded and made into an exclusive archive.
The founders of this program – Ranjan Dey of New Delhi Restaurant, Carmen Milagro of Peanut Butter & JAMMusic Sessions for Kids and Gleidson Martins of News Up Now – have invested $15,000 each to bring this event to the point where the series can be produced in front of an audience.
WHEN: Sunday, May 29th, 2022 at 11:00 AM
WHERE: New Delhi Restaurant, 160 Ellis Street, San Francisco, California 94102
WHY we’re asking for your help:
- Help support more programs for the children of the Tenderloin After School Program.
- We are creating a sustainable, evergreen product that would allow us to create a flow of long-term residuals and continuous proceeds from the potential sale of the series to Netflix, Hulu and Amazon.
- We will create movie night screenings with behind the scenes footage and other special events throughout the year with special guests and the Compassionate Chefs Cafe family to continue to bring our community together.
- To continue to inspire, teach and educate children to think of themselves as global citizens.
- To continue our support of existing programs for the Tenderloin After School Program.
- Plant the seeds for a better future.
| Donation | Benefits |
|---|---|
| $10k |
1. One member of your group will be featured on the show as an audience guest (Four Episodes). 2. Table for four guests for four episodes / Royal Brunch. 3. Logo on step-and-repeat screen. 4. Logo statement mentioned by hosts during filming. 5. Admission for cooking zoom class with Chef Ranjan. 6. Sponsor’s logo on our website. 7. Key sponsor collaborates with Guest Artist on an original tune. |
| $7000.00 |
1. One member of your group will be featured on the show as an audience guest (Four Episodes). 2. Table for three for four episodes / Royal Brunch. 3. Logo on step-and-repeat screen. 4. Logo statement mentioned by hosts during filming. 5. Admission for cooking zoom class with Chef Ranjan. 6. Sponsor’s logo on our website. |
| $5000.00 |
1. Table for two (Two Episodes). 2. Logo on step-and-repeat screen. 3. Logo statement mentioned by hosts. 4. Logo on our website. |
| $1000.00 |
1. Table for two (One Episodes). 2. Logo on step-and repeat screen. 3. Logo statement mentioned by hosts. |
- Highlight your name or the name of your organization
- Partner with us on our social media & promo campaign
- Over 16K on private email list
- Over 20K Social Media followers
- Over 150K impressions
- Coverage on 200+ Press & Media List coverage
- Feature on the San Francisco Legacy Business Website
- Feature on San Francisco Heritage community website
Goal: $60,000
All the proceeds raised by the “Legends LIVE!” episodes and fundraiser – will be donated to Compassionate Chefs Cafe. The funds from the “Legends LIVE!” events are earmarked specifically for the children of the Tenderloin After School Program. CCC never keeps funds for operating costs, 100% of donations go towards the children.
We are creating sustainable episodes to give inspiration to children. “Legends LIVE!” will be an ongoing series, which will secure a better future for the children assisted by the Compassionate Chefs Cafe.
Link for donation: https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/compassionatechefscafe
We have partnered with the Philanthropic Ventures Foundation to process all online donations so that we are transparent to all of our donors how our funds are being allotted and ensure tax deductions for your contributions in support of the “Legends LIVE!” program. Please select “Compassionate Chefs Cafe” from the list of non-profits and set your donation amount!
If you would prefer to donate by check, please make the check payable to “Philanthropic Ventures Foundation” and write “Compassionate Chefs Cafe” on the memo line. Checks can be mailed to:
Philanthropic Ventures Foundation
1222 Preservation Park Way
Oakland, CA 94612
Thank you for your support!
Host - Carmen Milagro
Musician, Entrepreneur
Carmen Milagro is as a professional creative, story-teller, music, and video writer/producer. She’s also an international entertainer (Japan, Cuba, Europe plus the North and Central Americas). She is a spokesperson/emcee, public speaker, lead vocalist, as well as co-founder of Blue Moon Gypsies, a West Coast-style Country Music and Originals band. She’s also co-writing her first screenplay and musical production. She is a Hispa role model as featured in their 20k Hispanic / Latinx Stories. She is also a Hispanic Star Ambassador and was chosen as 1 out of only 90 stories in Book #1 “Hispanic Stars Rising ~ The New Face Of Power” a book of stories of Latino leaders from across the U.S.A.
As a community-driven advocate, Ms. Milagro “only hires onto” projects whose vision are aligned with her values. She is currently consulting for and plans to reclaim her role as lead advisor and Head Nut for her non-profit called Peanut Butter & JAMMusic Sessions for Kids which will be partnered with her client Music City San Francisco (2022) to inspire the next generation of young musicians. In her spare time, Carmen is an expert content writer for Live & ThriveCA and Better Health & Wellness magazines. She also hosted “Reading Rituals with Miss Carmen, featuring children’s stories authors reading their own words. As for her future plans, Carmen Milagro has no plans to slow down but rather go back to school at the age of 65, if not sooner, to become a full-time filmmaker.
Ms. Milagro has also been interviewed by the likes of JT Foxx, Janeshia “Hollywood” Adams-Ginyard (Black Panther), Jose Garcia (GHMU), Univision, Bay Area Vista, Bay Area Focus (CBS/KPIX), RDM Studios and a few others in the archives. These experiences inspired her to partner with celebrity Chef Ranjan Dey in San Francisco to co-produce, write and host “their newest collaboration” a series of video interviews with some legendary musical heroes to raise money for Compassionate Chefs Cafe a local non-profit that serves the children in the San Francisco Tenderloin neighborhood.
Host - Ranjan Dey
Chef / Owner of New Delhi Restaurant
Ranjan Dey is the man behind the first New Delhi Restaurant at San Francisco in 1988. He started his career in the food business at the age of 14 at Calcutta’s Park Hotel as a vegetable cutter. After finishing high school, he graduated from the Institute of Catering Technology, Hotel Management and Applied Nutrition. But during all this, he kept his part-time evening job in different hotels. He then worked at the Grand and Great Eastern Hotels in Calcutta before he moving to New Delhi where he worked in Akbar and Janpath Hotels. Prior to moving to Hong Kong, Ranjan spent two years as a senior Chef in the kitchens of the Maurya Sheraton Hotel in New Delhi.
New Delhi Restaurant was established in 1988 and opened by San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos, on Nov 3rd, 1988. Since then many famous politicians have crossed its threshold from Lt. Governor Pete Wilson, former Gov. Jerry Brown, others like the late Milton Marks, Wille Brown and many more. In 1992 future President Bill Clinton made it a stop during his first presidential campaign when he met the Indians of the Bay Area to listen to their issues. He returned in 1996 during his re-election campaign and New Delhi Restaurant has been a favorite spot for political fundraisers ever since.
Special Musical Guests
Larry Batiste
Sunday June 12th, 2022
Our second interview is with none other than SF’s native son, THE man behind the scenes in both the Bay Area and Hollywood and a legend himself: Mr. Larry Batiste – Musical Director for the Grammys (Recording Academy)
Google link
LinkedIn
Mr. Batiste will attend our Press Conference on Wednesday, November 3, 2021. His interview is scheduled for Sunday, June 12, 2022.
Tommy Castro
Sunday September 4th, 2022
San Jose native, legendary Soul Blues & Rocker Mr. Tommy Castro (A Blues Man Came To Town). Castro joined Warner Brothers’ artists The Dynatones in the late 1980s, performing all over the country. He formed the first Tommy Castro Band in 1992 and has not stopped touring since. Tommy Castro Wikipedia
Tommy Castro Presents: A Blues Man Came To Town
Mr. Castro’s interview is scheduled for
Sunday, September 4, 2022.
Anna Karney
Sunday December 4th, 2022
Anna Karney has been making great music for many years, performing across the country and putting out several singles, EPs, and albums, and now with her San Francisco-based band KARNEY is set to release a new single titled “Be Together,” the first in a series of singles she will be releasing throughout 2021.
Official Website
Ms. Karney’s interview is scheduled for Sunday, December 4, 2022.
