Madiba Restaurant believes in giving back to a community that has given so much to us. These are some of the charitable organizations we've been involved in over the years. These wonderful groups have so much to offer; check them out, maybe you'll find a new cause!

Achilles Track Club
The Achilles Track Club provides support, training, and opportunity for runners with disabilities. The New York Chapter enters some of its runners into the New York Marathon each year.

Action Against Hunger
The mission of Action Against Hunger is to save lives by eliminating hunger through the prevention, detection, and treatment of malnutrition, especially during and after emergency situations of conflict, war and natural disaster. From crisis to sustainability, they tackle the underlying causes of malnutrition and its effects by using their expertise in nutrition, food security, water and sanitation, health and advocacy. Integrating programs with local and national systems ensures that short-term interventions become long-term solutions.

Art Aids Art
Activities in America focus on educating the public about South African culture and the HIV/AIDS crisis through presentations at community centers and private home gatherings.  Each year, the organization leads an intergenerational group of volunteers to Cape Town, home of the South African headquarters, to provide services through programs and in collaboration with participating South African organizations. In addition, Art Aids Art stimulates economic opportunity for South African artist collectives, purchasing artwork at Fair Trade prices and exhibiting it in the United States.  Income from American art sales is reinvested into our projects in Cape Town.

BAM (Brooklyn Acadamy of Music)
BAM is a community center of cinema, performance, art, literature, music, talks, and other events. It is deeply rooted in its community, especially Brooklyn and Fort Greene, and takes every opportunity to help foster neighborhood revitalization, diversity, education, and outreach.

Books Through Bars
This organization takes book donations and sends them to prison libraries to help prisoners self-educate, prepare for their GED, and better themselves.

Broadway in South Africa
This organization seeks to make a change through cross-cultural interaction between artists and South African children. Through performance and expression, these artists hope to have a positive influence on the future.

Camp Kinderland
This camp is for kids to play, create, and be themselves. They are also encouraged to express themselves about social issues and problems, making murals of Harriet Tubman, singing Yiddish labor songs, and much more. It works because the values of community and culture, of justice and righteousness, are inextricably integrated with the friendship, the joy, the beauty, the sheer fun and adventure, of life at sleepaway camp.

Carlton-Willoughby Block Corporation
This corporation of a block of streets in Brooklyn are hearty supporters of community events and artists.

Documentary Operations (DocOps)

Ellipsis Community Arts Center
The Ellipsis Community Arts Center is a community-built, collectively operated creative learning center in Brooklyn, NY, offering free art classes, gallery and performance space as well as a community garden and meeting space. Ellipsis strives to be a location that challenges the alienating and oppressive structures of our society by providing a space and a community which appreciates, legitimizes, and makes visible the work of women, people of color, lesbians, gay men, and children.

Fordham Student Sponsored Fellowship, Inc
The FSSF was established in 1988 to offer financial grants to students who wish to spend their summer doing public interest work. The Fellowship is funded in part by Fordham Law students who pledge one day of their summer salary as well as phone-a-thons, private and matching contributions, and a Goods & Services Auction.

Glass Contraption
The Glass Contraption is a theater group that uses a clown’s abandon to examine aspects of everyday life.

Goods for Good
This organization collects surplus goods and sends them to orphaned or disadvantaged children in Africa. Clothes and supplies that would otherwise have been destroyed are shipped by donors’ contributions and arrive into the joyful hands of children who would have gone without.

Hoops for Hope
Since 1995, HOOPS 4 HOPE (H4H), a global not-for-profit organization, has supported youth development throughout southern Africa by providing more than 10,000 school-age children with their Basketball/Life Skills program.

Hunter College High School PTA
A local high school

Ikamva Labantu
Ikamva is a South African non-profit, non-governmental organization that helps develop self-reliant and sustainable community-based organizations to facilitate positive social change. Participants are from all age groups, and programs are designed to ease living, provide opportunity, and create community support.

International House
International House is a residential community of 700 grad school students or interns selected from over 100 countries. It provides its residents a living environment unlike any other in New York City and an experience to add tangible value to any academic or professional training program.

Princeton in Africa
Princeton in Africa develops young leaders committed to Africa’s advancement by offering yearlong fellowship opportunities with a variety of organizations that work across the African continent.

Public Art Fund
The Public Art Fund is New York's leading presenter of artists' projects, new commissions, and exhibitions in public spaces. For over 30 years the Public Art Fund has been committed to working with emerging and established artists to produce innovative exhibitions of contemporary art throughout New York City. By bringing artworks outside the traditional context of museums and galleries, the Public Art Fund provides a unique platform for an unparalleled public encounter with the art of our time.

Realside Productions
This studio created a one hour documentary about Brooklyn Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm and her campaign for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 1972.

Rewards Network
Through eScrip Dining, you can donate a percentage of your bill to your favorite nonprofits!

Sky High Youth Services
Sky High Youth Services helps youth programs expand by conducting after-school and summer sports programs at local and private schools. An outlet for physical activity creates healthy kids, but SKY HIGH (standing for Success Keeps You Higher In Greater Humanity) also develops basic morality, respect, and self-confidence so the children involved can achieve their highest goals in the future.

Trilok Fusion Arts
Trilok Fusion Arts brings together artists of varied cultural backgrounds, creating performances that embrace their roots and encourage understanding, curiosity, and respect for world cultures.

Ubuntu Education Fund for the Children of South Africa
This nonprofit provides funding and supplies for South African schools to promote learning and ability.

The University of the Witwatersrand Fund, Inc
Wits, as it is called, is a leading university in South Africa.

War Resisters League
This group is determined not to support any kind of war, international or civil, and to strive nonviolently for the removal of the causes of war, including racism, sexism, and all forms of human exploitation.

WBAI Pacifica Radio
WBAI is an offshoot of the very first listener-funded broadcast radio station. Its mission is radio that fosters understanding amongst nations and individuals, encourages creativity, and promotes innovative, uncensored distribution of news.

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