Giving Back

2024

**Brandani's Restaurant Month...extended*!**
benefiting
Lunches of Love (LoL) &
East Fort Bend Human Needs Ministry, Inc.
*Starts Thursday, September 5, 2024

2022

Giving Back in September
Benefiting Lunches of Love (LoL)

We are thrilled to bring back Giving Back in September! Every Tuesday in September, we will donate 20%* of sales to Lunches of Love, a local non profit based in Ft. Bend County. Dine In or To Go every Tuesday to help give back!

Lunches of Love
LoL serves nutritious lunches Monday-Friday during extended school holidays (spring break, summer and Christmas break) and weekends in Ft. Bend County. Each lunch costs approximately $0.75 and is made with love inside their new facility in Rosenberg, Texas
Many children living in families facing food insecurity rely on school lunches as their only meal of the day. Lunches of Love is there to fill the gap and offer children in need a nutritious sack lunch and a snack.

More Info on LoL
In our community, a large percentage (over 87% - Title 1 Schools) of our children are on free and reduced lunches during the school year. Many of these children would go hungry without LoL.
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Lunches of Love, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is committed to helping end childhood hunger in Fort Bend County by providing a free nutritious sack lunch during extended school holidays and weekends.

*excluding retail wine sales and gift certificate purchases.

2019

Join us every Tuesday in August as we give back to our community! We are thrilled to bring back Giving Back in August for 2019. We are donating 15% of our total sales* from both restaurants and dividing it equally between 2 charities.
Thank you to everyone who continues to support us as we give back to our community!
- Ron & Claire Brandani

Marlee's Smile

Marlee's Smile Foundation
Marlee’s Smile Foundation provides bears to kids who are battling cancer, as well as their siblings. Marlee Hope Pack was diagnosed with cancer at 8 years old. When granted a Make-A-Wish, she used that wish to give to others. She used it to set up a Build-A-Bear workshop at the hospital so the kids on the Oncology unit could have a bear. She said, “I decided on this wish because I know what it is like to feel bad in the hospital and getting a bear would have made me feel better.” Marlee gained her healing on the other side of heaven at age 12 and now Marlee’s Smile Foundation is carrying out her legacy of giving.

A Shelter for Cancer Families

A Shelter for Cancer Families
A Shelter for Cancer Families (ASCF) provides free tangible support in the Texas Medical Center to families affected by cancer based

Giving Back in August

In 2016 & 2017, we helped our community by donating a portion of our sales every Tuesday in August to a local, Ft. Bend County Charity. We are proud to have donated over $22,250 to our local community during those 2 years! We have spread out our donations over the year for 2018, since we have focused on our expansion during August. We look forward to Giving Back in 2019! Thank you to everyone who continues to support us as we give back to our community!
- Ron & Claire Brandani

2016

ConnorMan
Defeat DIPG Foundation

Connor’s Story
On December 15, 2014, four year old Connor was diagnosed with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG). Within days, Connor lost his ability to swallow, speak and move. He immediately underwent in-patient radiation and chemotherapy treatment for 30 days at MD Anderson in Houston, Texas. This treatment only halted the tumor growth temporarily and despite a courageous effort, Connor never regained his ability to walk or full functionality of the right side of his body. On October 29, 2015, Connor succumbed to this terrible disease.

What is DIPG?
DIPG is a rare, inoperable brain tumor found in the pons, a part of the brainstem that controls essential bodily functions. There is currently no cure and treatment options are limited.As the tumor grows, it deprives a child of the ability to move, communicate and even to eat and drink. DIPG affects children almost exclusively, typically between 5– 10 years old. It is the leading cause of death from pediatric brain cancer. Over 99% of children diagnosed with DIPG survive less than 2 years.

2017

Lunches
of Love (LoL)

Lunches of Love
LoL serves nutritious lunches Monday-Friday during extended school holidays (spring break, summer and Christmas break) and weekends in Ft. Bend County. Each lunch costs approximately $0.75 and is made with love inside the kitchen of their host site, First UMC Rosenberg.
Many children living in families facing food insecurity rely on school lunches as their only meal of the day. Lunches of Love is there to fill the gap and offer children in need a nutritious sack lunch and a snack.