Bobby Barzi is a businessman with a purpose: create a better world for our children by investing in communities and efforts that inspire positive change. It starts with promoting the importance of being an active and engaged father, the initial basis for the creation of his successful clothing company, Fodada. Barzi discusses these ideas as well as other programs he and his company have backed in the season finale of the Modern Dads Podcast. Barzi started the clothing line in 2012 as a socially aware business. It focused initially on celebrating, promoting and supporting the idea … [Read more...]
Watch: Raising Future Leaders with Ziauddin Yousafzai of Malala Fund
The role dads can play in raising future leaders and social cause advocates will be the focus of a talk Wednesday, featuring the father of human rights activist Malala Yousafzai. “Let Them Fly: Raising Empowered Leaders, Advocates, and Citizens” will be hosted by City Dads Group co-founder Matt Schneider in New York City at 7 p.m., June 12. A live stream will be available on YouTube starting at 7:30PM. Ziauddin Yousafzai, co-founder and board member of Malala Fund, will be one of the featured speakers. His efforts to resist Taliban efforts to limit freedoms in Pakistan inspired his … [Read more...]
Paternity Leave Campaign Aims to Create Advocates Online
With Father's Day nearing, Dove Men+Care wants to cultivate advocates for paid paternity leave through a newly created forum on social media. The grooming products company, a longtime outreach partner with City Dads Group, has launched Advocates for Paternity Leave, a closed Facebook group. In this digital space, DM+C hopes expectant dads, families and other individual and business allies will find inspiration to help change federal laws regarding paid family leave, engage with other like-minded activists, and learn how to advocate for the cause, according to company spokespeople. As … [Read more...]
Mental Fitness for Fathers Positively Necessary, Says Clothing Company
Mental health, especially among men, is a topic often spoken of in hushed tones ... if spoken about at all. City Dads Group has long advocated the importance of male mental health, asking the subject be brought into the forefront whenever the health and parenting is discussed. We're happy to learn our friends at Fodada, the dad-oriented clothing company, believe the same with its new Mental Fitness campaign. "We want to shift the dialogue around mental health to focus on its positive impact. We want to refocus the dialogue to mental fitness. A positive approach," the company's website … [Read more...]
Cleveland Dads Organizer Honored for Community Service Work
When someone is in trouble, do you head toward the action to lend a hand or do you turn and go the other way? If you are Darren W. Carter, lead organizer of our Cleveland Dads Group, you take action to help. Carter's work to serve his community, family and friends recently earned his second place in the "Run Toward Fires" service contest held by a local sales and marketing group. His wife, Theresa, nominated him for the award, citing not just his work with City Dads Group but also the work his does in his community for neighborhoods, schools and foster children. Darren has … [Read more...]
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