Dine Out for Life to benefit Project Angel Heart Thursday

Denver-area residents can do good in their neighborhoods by participating in the annual Dining Out For Life event to benefit Project Angel Heart on Thursday. While Dining Out For Life is an international event taking place in 56 cities, the Denver/Boulder area event is the largest in the nation, with the most participating restaurants and highest fundraising totals of any city. With 250 restaurants to choose from, it’s easy to give back while dining out at your favorite eatery.

Participating restaurants will donate 25 percent of food sales to support Project Angel Heart’s mission of delivering nutritious meals to improve quality of life, at no cost, for Coloradans coping with life-threatening illnesses. In 2014, Denver-area food lovers and participating restaurants helped Project Angel Heart raise more than $323,000 to support the organization’s home-delivered meal program.

Over the past 21 years, Dining Out For Life, a popular annual event with an estimated 80,000 participants, has raised more than $4.5 million to help Project Angel Heart prepare and deliver nutritious, medically tailored meals for people living with HIV/AIDS. The organization also provides meals for thousands of people living with cancer, end-stage renal disease, COPD and other life-threatening illnesses.

This year’s list of participating restaurants includes more than 225 returning restaurants and at least 25 new restaurants, including notable newcomers Lower48 Kitchen, Lena, Brazen, Block & Larder, Rosenberg’s Bagel & Delicatessen and Stoic & Genuine.

“Dining Out For Life is our largest fundraising event and we’re always humbled by the outpouring of support we receive from the community on this day, and throughout the year,” said Erin Pulling, president and CEO of Project Angel Heart. “We’d love to make this our most successful event to date, so we are asking our supporters to find their favorite participating neighborhood location and to come hungry, knowing that, just by eating out, they will be making a true difference for those living with life-threatening illnesses in Colorado.”