Celebration of Kindness

HighWire

Bar Serving: Brazilian Kind Lemonade

This refreshingly sweet specialty cocktail will have you wanting to come back for more! Thanks to HighWire’s creative staff for making this delicous cocktail including brazilian lemonade, midori, lime, sugar, rum, malibu rum, and coconut water. Learn more about HighWire at https://highwiretucson.com/

Moto Sonora Brewing Co.

Bar Serving: locally brewed beer

Yellow Brick Coffee

Self-Serve: sample size coffee

Yellow Brick Coffee is Single Origin, Specialty Coffee Roasted on Demand. Our customers enjoy wonderfully delicious coffee that starts with our farmers, journeys through our elevated quality controls and our expertly engineered roasting techniques, and ends in a perfectly brewed cup. Yellow Brick Coffee provides artisan roasts coupled with superior brewing advisory services for the individual needs of our wholesale and retail clients. Learn more at https://yellowbrickcoffee.com/

Transit Tea

Self-Serve: tea

Everything starts with the best water in town! You can’t get any better. We brew all of our teas fresh every day from loose leaf that we source from all over the planet. It’s taken us years to figure out how to make our tea a shape shifter. By that, we mean our tea can take of different forms. Hot. Iced. Sparkling. And if you really want something special, Snow. Same tea, different forms. All delicious! Our drink recipes are meant to spark memories and feelings. Things that you might not remember that you love. We call it new-stalgia. Life is a journey, enjoy the ride! Learn more at https://www.transittea.com/

El Charro

Serving: tortilla chips, salsa picante, mini chimis-vegan with salsa verde, pollo pastor tostadas, frijoles charros

Established in 1922, El Charro Café of Tucson, Arizona is The Nation’s Oldest Mexican Restaurant in continuous operation by the same family. Featuring traditional Northern Mexico-Sonoran style and innovative Tucson-style Mexican Food, El Charro Café is truly as Gourmet Magazine wrote: “A Taste Explosion”. With a large array of award winning hand-crafted recipes based on Sonoran and Local ingredients, El Charro Café is a passage to Tucson’s Culinary History that has been won the dining icon acclaim from all over the world. Learn more at https://www.elcharrocafe.com/

Special Eats

Serving: grilled cheese

Special Eats was established in 2022 to serve delicious grilled cheese sandwiches from our mobile food truck. Since the beginning, our mission has been to employ individuals with special needs. Currently, we employ 23 people who help us with everything from shopping and food prep to inventory management and merchandise design. Our employees also create our to-go bags, sell our merchandise, and greet every customer with a smile. Our company was founded by Tamara Varga and William Harman, both of whom have children with special needs. Their goal was to create a company where their children would be proud to work. Learn more at https://azspecialeats.com/

Eclectic Cafe

After the death of her son Ben in 2002, Jeannette Maré learned how a small act of kindness could make such a difference in a person’s life, no matter their background. She created Ben’s Bells as a way to spread kindness in the community and teach others about the impact of intentional kindness. This award was established in 2022 during our 20th year of service to honor kind individuals in the community for making a difference through their outstanding kindness. 

NOMINATIONS: We are seeking nominations of individuals in the Tucson area who embody kindness through their behavior, choices, and actions, and through their service to the community. These kind individuals understand that kindness is a powerful skill and ongoing practice that begins inwardly and extends to other individuals, groups, and entire communities. A Ben’s Bells Founder’s Award honoree will be someone who actively works for community equity and inclusiveness. 

Nominate a kind individual today! Submissions due by Friday, April 7th.