Over 650 thousand meals served!

We are proud to announce over 650 thousand kids have been fed pasta up to date through Caterina's Club!

We cannot do such wonderful things without the support around us. Thank you to everyone involved!

Caterina’s Club has a new location!

Caterina’s Club will now be serving pasta to the Buena Park Boys and Girls Club

Thanks to you, Caterina's Club is now serving an addition 150 children a night, 5 days a week. Thank you all for helping us bring full stomachs and smiles to the boys and girls of Buena Park! 

Our Snow Day with the kids from the Boys and Girls Club featured in the December Issue of the OC Register!

Our Snow Day with the kids from the Boys and Girls Club featured in the December Issue of the OC Register!

Help support Caterina's Club with our new SpendingShift app

Help support Caterina's Club with our new SpendingShift app which lets you donate while purchasing everyday items.

We thank everyone for their support and generosity!

Link: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/spendingshift-the-kindness-platform

THANKS TO ALL OF YOU AT KFI RADIO AND ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHO DONATED TO OUR CAUSE!

Our live event with Bill Handel and the rest of the crew from KFI-AM 640, was featured in the OC Register.

The event was a huge success and we cannot thank everyone enough for their amazing generosity!

Come Check Out Our Live Event With The Official Bill Handel Show!

Come Check Out Our Live Event With The Official Bill Handel Show The Official KFI AM 640 ! Bring Donations or even just tune in and support our cause to feed 1000 Unfortunate children every night as of January 2014!Caterina's Club Bruno Serato

Wow, It snowed in Anaheim!

Here is a recap of our Snow Day with the Boys and Girls Club. We were able to serve over 300 children a delicious Thanks Giving dinner and play in the snow! 

A special thanks to the Anaheim Fire Department for helping us serve 300 kids from the Boys & Girls Club. The event was a great success as the children had a wonderful time.

We cannot do it without the support of great people such as yourselves! 

Sir Chef Bruno and the Caterina's Club featured on PRIMER IMPACTO!

Sir Chef Bruno and the Caterina's Club featured on PRIMER IMPACTO!

500,000th Meal Celebration

Celebs Join In Milestone Event at Anaheim White House

Mix together 1 Oscar winner, 2 star NHL players, a couple of local newscasters, a reality TV star and a man with a giant heart and what do you get?   Tons of love and compassion for one of the neediest segments of our population -- 200 local area “motel kids” who will attend the Anaheim White House gala celebrating the 500,000th meal served through the nonprofit Caterina’s Club.

Before diving into the food, the children will have a ball -- literally -- as 30 massive beach balls and 2 bounce houses will help transform the lawn outside of the restaurant’s West Wing into a colorful playground.  On hand to help serve dinner afterwards are Oscar winner Mira Sorvino, Anaheim Ducks players Bobby Ryan and Teemu Selanne, “OC Housewives’” star Vicki Gunvalson, newscaster Wendy Burch and 2 of the world’s biggest celebs whose identity will be revealed at the event to be held Tuesday, February 19 at 3 p.m. (887 South Anaheim Street, Anaheim).

In honor of his mother, Bruno Serato founded Caterina’s Club, an organization dedicated to making sure the region’s most vulnerable population – its children -- receive a hot meal before they are tucked into bed each evening. The milestone dinner served on Feb 19 will include stuffed ravioli, filet mignon with mushroom sauce & chocolate cake.  Usually, they enjoy pasta dinner, which is served 7 nights a week.  In addition to the nightly meals, Serato has begun placing some of these families into homes of their own.

Serato's extreme generosity has earned him worldwide status.  He was named one of CNN's 10 Heroes of the Year and has been featured in magazines (People, Elle, Vogue), television ("CBS Evening News," "EXTRA,") and newspapers (New York Times, Los Angeles Times, OC Register) countless times.  He is due to become knighted by the Italian government, was honored on the steps of the U.S. Capitol with a humanitarian award and has received any number of proclamations, Man of the Year awards and other forms of recognition.

Could You Go Without Tinsel?

We Could End Homelessness With The Money Americans Spend On Christmas Decorations

By Adam Peck for Think Progress

The latest annual report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development shows that the national homeless population held steady from 2011 to 2012, hardly good news but perhaps better than expected given the relatively weak economic climate.

Progress is being made within the veteran community, with homeless rates falling by 17 percent since 2009, and among the chronically homeless, with 17 percent fewer people living on the streets as in 2007. But in the fight to end homelessness by the year 2020 — the stated mission of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness in their 2010 plan — progress isn’t happening fast enough:

“[The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness] have set ambitious goals for themselves, but I don’t think those are goals that aren’t doable,” said Nan Roman, the president of the National Alliance to End Homelessness. “But not at the rate that we’re going.”

What is needed, says Mark Johnston, the acting assistant housing secretary for community planning and development, is a ten-fold increase in HUD’s $1.9 billion budget to address the crisis. By any measure $20 billion is a lot of money, but the figure is far less daunting when placed in context...