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Like you, we love Oakland! The Awaken Café is being built for the community, by the community. It's the cafe we've always wanted:
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A Place to Meet Your Friends.
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Select, Organic Food, Beer, & Wine. |
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A Cool Art Gallery.
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Green to the Core.
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People just like us are coming together to build the Awaken Café.
Join Us.
The Awaken Café is pre-selling CAFÉ CREATOR Cards for $250, $500 and $1,000 (the $1000 Card is available in one payment or five monthly $200 payments). Use your Card at the Awaken Café to buy the best coffee in the East Bay, organic food, select beer & wine, cool merchandise, great art, and tickets to outstanding events.
Buy now and you get up to 25% more than you pay (e.g. for $1000, you get a $1250 Card), plus other perks including free admission to events, invitations to private openings, and free merchandise. CAFÉ CREATORS participate in our community meetings where we design the Café. Help create the Awaken Café’s events, menu, style and feel!
The money from your purchase goes directly to fund the opening of the Awaken Café!
When you buy your Card, you CREATE the Awaken Café! We need YOU!
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What People Are Saying.
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"Next spring I'll be moving to a restored historic structure across from the Fox Theater. I'd like to live in a neighborhood with independently owned shops and restaurants, rather than chain stores. I bought the gift card because I wanted to help an independently owned business open up downtown and because I wanted to contribute to the smart development of my new neighborhood."
- Lawrence Biggie, CAFÉ CREATOR.
"When I saw the sign in the window about Awaken Cafe with the inspired mission statement I was intrigued and excited. I checked out the webpage, read about the gift card, loved the concept and felt compelled to help a local business that I believe will improve my own quality of life."
- Scott Yundt, CAFÉ CREATOR.
"Turning to patrons to help open a restaurant is a unique approach, said Kevin Westlye, executive director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association. 'I think this is a great example of someone using a creative process to address a traditional issue,' he said."
- by Eve Mitchell, Oakland Tribune, 5/16/07.
"Dunlap and Christensen embrace the notion of 'conscious capitalism,' which places just as much emphasis on the person as the profit. It's about making sure everyone is involved in the process and has a stake in it's success, which is something smart entrepreneurs quickly learn to do."
- by Kwan Booth, Novometro.com, 4/30/07.
“We vote with our dollars and most of us want to make a difference. Community supported business, of which gift cards are a part, is a way to belong and support the emerging new paradigm of ‘being attentive to the whole.’”
- Matthew Engelhart, Owner of Cafe Gratitude.
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