Tree of Life Cafe & Bakery:Social Entrepreneurship
Rebuilding lives, revitalizing a downtown, restoring community, and connecting people.
Here’s where you come in:
Tree of Life has already built a name for itself with delicious farm-to-table cuisine and excellent customer service. Our staff has built a loyal customer base through hard work, creativity and a caring attitude. Tree of Life staff members are seeing their hard work and dedication paying off as customers increase daily. Our staff is experiencing the rewards of team work and sweat equity!
For some employees, this job is the first legal source of income they have had in years. A paycheck that can be handed over-the-counter, not under-the-table, builds self-respect and strong communities.
A “Hand Up” Not A “Hand Out”
By creating jobs for men and women who formerly relied on government assistance, Tree of Life is restoring a sense of dignity and humanity to men and women whose lives had been stripped of dignity. Tree of Life chefs and servers are creating joy and good memories for customers every day as they serve the best home-cooked food in town! Our staff love their jobs and want to come to work because they participate in making decisions and setting policies at Tree of Life. Our staff members listen to our customers and the owners listen to our staff members. All opinions matter at Tree of Life!
By working as a team, our staff is reclaiming the human dignity lost to addiction and poverty and the hopelessness those evils breed. Because we are located in downtown, near the Fresno County Courthouse, our staff members are finding themselves cooking for and serving the very lawyers and judges who heard their criminal cases!
Donating money is only one way to help. If you need your paycheck for something like rent or groceries, we understand! But, you can help get our story out to people you know. Share our story with your friends on social media. Invite them to be part of this great social enterprise!
And that’s all there is to it.
Here are some links to stories about us in the news:
http://www.fresnobee.com/living/food-drink/article68345967.html
http://kingsriverlife.com/01/23/a-tree-of-life-…
http://kingsriverlife.com/04/09/tree-of-life-gr..