Highland Village, TX (Grassroots Newswire) -- On November 17, Ben & Jerry’s founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield will help the Dallas Metro Area party with a purpose.
The two storied founders will be on hand at the Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shop in Highland Village, TX at the Shops of Highland Village to celebrate with the Dallas communities that have embraced them as well as lend their scooping hands to SpiritHorse Therapeutic Center.
The “meet & greet” and fundraiser will be at the Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shop in Highland Village, a place where giving back to the community and eating well at the same time are daily events.
The Party with a Purpose will be from 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. at the Shops of Highland Village. Cohen and Greenfield will be on hand for photographs and autographs. Volunteers from SpiritHorse Therapeutic will be on hand to assist in taking photographs that can be emailed as well as passing out empty pint containers for fans of all things good and creamy to get signed by the Co-Founders Cohen and Greenfield.
Cohen and Greenfield are not new to marrying the ice cream business with great causes in local communities. From its inception, creating a win/win with the private enterprise and social activism has been at the root of the Ben & Jerry’s business model. “Business has a responsibility to give back to the community," explains Cohen.
“We have worked with SpiritHorse before at Ben & Jerry’s in Highland Village,” adds Hunter Rose, self proclaimed Ice Cream Czar and proprietor of the Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shops in Highland Village, Plano and McKinney. “The work SpiritHorse does with children is remarkable and we want to help support their cause and raise awareness for the great work they do in our community.”
Rose states, "We hope everyone attends our Party with a Purpose and gets a chance to try their favorite Ben & Jerry’s flavor! It’s great ice cream for a great cause -- you can’t lick that." The Highland Village Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shop is located at 4061 Barton Creek, Highland Village, TX 75077. The Scoop Shop is located in the Shops of Highland Village between the AMC Movie Theater and the Barnes & Noble. Information is also available at the Scoop Shop website at www.benjerry.com/highlandvillage.
Ben and Jerry will be speaking later in the evening at the University of Texas at Arlington as a part of the University’s Maverick Speaker Series. The two ice cream entrepreneurs will be speaking at 7:30PM on ”Entrepreneurial Spirit, Social Responsibility & Radical Business Philosophy.” Tickets are free and the first 1,000 attendees to the UTA event will get free ice cream.
SpiritHorse Therapeutic provides free therapeutic horseback riding services to over 425 children and adults from ten counties in the Greater Dallas/Fort Worth Metro Area each week at their facilities in Corinth, just north of Dallas, Texas. Additionally, they serve another 2,500 children at forty SpiritHorse centers which they have facilitated the founding of worldwide. They currently serve more children than any center in the world. They are unique in that SpiritHorse is the only large center in America that provides all therapeutic horseback riding services free of charge in their seven programs: Disabilities, Children who are Victims of Abuse/Violence, At-Risk-Youth, Children Who are Terminally Ill, Battered Women, Youth After Drug Rehab, and our Horses For Heroes Program for military personnel wounded or mentally impacted by war. Their mission is, "To Assist Each Child with Special Needs in Reaching Their Full Potential through Interaction with Horses".
About Ben & Jerry’s
Ben & Jerry’s produces a wide variety of super-premium ice cream and ice cream novelties, using high-quality ingredients including milk and cream from family farmers who do not treat their cows with the synthetic hormone rBGH. The company states its position on rBGH on its labels. Ben and Jerry’s products are distributed nationwide and in selected foreign countries in supermarkets, grocery stores, convenience stores, franchise Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shops, restaurants and other venues. Ben & Jerry’s, a Vermont corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of Unilever, operates its business on a three-part Mission Statement emphasizing product quality, economic reward and a commitment to the community. Contributions made via the employee led Ben & Jerry’s Foundation in 2007 totaled approximately $1.7 million. Additionally, the company makes significant product donations to community groups and nonprofits both in Vermont and across the nation. The purpose of Ben & Jerry’s philanthropy is to support the founding values of the company: economic and social justice, environmental restoration and peace through understanding, and to support our Vermont communities. For the full scoop on all Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shop locations and fabulous flavors, visit www.benjerry.com.