About Us

• Real Men Cook featured on hour-long Emeril Live show - CLICK HERE TO VIEW
• Co-founder celebrates 30 years in marketing
• Real Men Cook Charities, Inc® presents Real Men Cook
• Real Men Cook is presented by Real Men Charities, Inc.

Real Men Cook is presented by Real Men Charities, Inc., a 501c3 nonprofit organization.

As the world becomes more virtual and trust becomes more tenuous, "brands are more important than they have ever been," says J'Amy Owens, president of the Retail Group Inc. Strong brands forge loyalty in a skeptical, disbelieving world. - INC Magazine, The Power of Brand, by Edward O. Welles

Yvette and Kofi Moyo have developed two very successful brands, Real Men Cook® (RMC) and Marketing Opportunities in Business and Entertainment (MOBE).

These brands represent inclusion, authority, higher purpose, clarity, and involvement to millions nation wide. MOBE and Real Men Cook® are about relationships, lasting connections and experiences. Both have evolved from events into marketing platforms for products and small business and provide settings where companies can interact directly with consumers and each other.

Together, MOBE and RMC are family, community and business-building vehicles where companies identify new opportunities, gain new consumers and strengthen relationships. Both brands are recognized for being an advocate and promoter of African American value and growth, but the value of the brands transcend beyond ethnic or racial boundaries. We pride ourselves on identifying and developing new opportunities in the market. Utilizing a combination of buzz, product placement, and celebrity endorsement, we cultivated two of the hottest and most trusted African American-owned brands and are experiencing universal success as a result.

Yvette and Kofi launched Real Men Cook® in 1990, and it became the largest family celebration in the country and presented annually on Father's Day, for 14 consecutive years. Today, Real Men Cook is the leading urban Father's Day experience. Millions share the experience through interactive news programming and other media coverage that reached over 136 million media audience impressions in 2002 and over 200 million this year. That's worth over $5 million in value in a single year. Beyond the media value is the intrinsic value of the Real Men® brand, 30 years after women's liberation, that points up the value and contribution of the males to healthy families and communities. Men and women alike appreciate and celebrate this concept. For grocery retail, Real Men Cook has opened up a new window for food preparation and home-cooking around Father's Day and has put meaning into a formerly 3rd rate observation by turning Father's Day into a family celebration that matters.

MOBE was launched fifteen years ago to bring the decision makers and influencers of the urban entertainment space together to build relationships. The relationships built at MOBE have directly contributed to over $200 million in deals. It has been stated that the MOBE Family is “less than 2 degrees of separation from the movers and shakers of the entertainment industry.” MOBE has received letters of commendation from both President Clinton and Bush; also, co-hosting the White House Briefing on African-Americans in Business and Technology. A few notable contributors to MOBE include: Percy Sutton, Rep. Waters, Rep. Owens, Hon. Marc Morial, Hon. Bill Campbell, Johnnie Cochran, Russell Simmons, L.A. Reid, Don Coleman, and Karl Kani, just to name a few. 

Rael H. Jackson

Real Men Cook Charities, Inc®  Presents Real Men Cook®

The Crusade

Real Men Charities, Inc. presents Real Men Cook events, launched Father’s Day 1990, as a national crusade to positively change the way the world views men in relationship to their family and community. The crusade includes events, which take place all on the same day, Father’s Day; in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Miami, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, DC.

The Crusaders

The Reality

Can an event change the world? Day by day, year by year, first by claiming Father’s Day in major cities and with national media attention, myths are destroyed, hope is restored, perspectives repositioned, appreciation is expressed, examples are magnified, young men strive to be real men and mature men stand up to be counted; families, no matter the configuration, begin to celebrate themselves and those who try to make a difference. Women love it.

No Child is Left Behind

No child need feel empty on Father’s Day. Families attend the event and women are the number one purchasers of event tickets. Entire families celebrate beyond the biological father, and grandfathers, brothers, coaches and teachers. Reflection is placed on real men past or present. Children are celebrated, activities are planned for them and during the campaign, they benefit by the positive images, messages and role models, who happen to be every day men making a difference.

The Beneficiaries

Beyond charity partners, Real Men Cook® is the event women love to attend, but the positive spirit lasts far beyond Father’s Day. They, their children, and in many cases male guests, enjoy the great food the celebration and the family reunion spirit of the event. The community benefits by experiencing many positive examples of men whom have given up Father’s Day pampering to contribute to a day that has more value because of Real Men Cook®. After Father’s Day Real Men Charities, Inc is a positive force in the community, providing Real Men as volunteers.

Fellow non-profits are willing to work in partnership as we endeavor to change the world, benefiting through active involvement and an initial financial and manpower commitment. In exchange, publicity worth a million dollars in value is enjoyed, thus the non-profit’s value is strengthened and they are better positioned for success throughout the year.

Health and Wellness

Real Men Charities, Inc, events focus on health screenings and programs, mainly Real Men Cook with Kids, Health Forums, Real Men Talking, Youth World AIDS Day programming and Real Men Read programs. Campaigns and programs include healthy families and healthy living. Real Men Cook Health & Wellness Pavilions are an integral part of Real Men Cook events in each city on Father’s Day.

The family, no matter the configuration, is acknowledged as invaluable to our communities. Children, women and all men involved whether as guests or the cooks, are able to enjoy Father’s Day first and meaningful involvement by real men throughout the year, thanks to Real Men Cook and Real Men Charities, Inc. Each individual and participating partner becomes more valued as a result.

Yvette Moyo & Kofi Moyo, Co-founders 

Real Men Cook is presented by Real Men Charities, Inc., a 501c3 nonprofit organization.

Real Men Charities, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation, existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Illinois. The corporation File Number is 20-183-6. The 501c3 certificate from the Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury. Tax ID number is 30-052728, per letter #1045. The organization was founded to function as the year-round extension for the Real Men Cook® events that were launched in Chicago fifteen years ago and are now presented nationally in leading U.S. cities.

Programs under Real Men Charities, Inc, include Real Men Cook Dinner at Daddy's House®, an all-male Sunday dinner that includes sessions where young men can meet and discuss with older men a variety of topics, including education, career options, including careers that involve cooking, foodservice or hospitality, what it means to be a real man, community service and goal setting. Another program is Real Men Cooking With Kids®, which is a fun program involving fresh foods and to easy prepare at home meals, healthy living as well as math and science in cooking. Another is Men's Appreciation Day®, which is a presentation by adult males to young high school and elementary school males, for the purpose of sharing experiences and opportunities for responsible living.

Real Men Charities, Inc. is the national not-for-profit organization that presents the Real Men Cook® events. Funds are used to build and continue programs to honor fathers and father figures, to empower families and perpetuate the memory and spirit of Karega Kofi Moyo and Yvette Jackson Moyo, who founded the annual Father's Day event. This is done by the encouragement and promotion of education through voluntary grants, by scholarships or otherwise to individuals, institutions, and organizations. 

Real Men Charities, Inc. was organized to teach and foster the prevention of cruelty to children, to combat and curb delinquency throughout the United States, to work in cooperation with private and governmental agencies concerned with at risk of delinquent children, to organize nationwide public relations programs for the purpose of advising the general public of the causes of at risk children, to engage in charitable programs with organizations whose aim is to donate clothes, toys, games and sporting equipment to children, to organize, operate and maintain without profit youth centers for boys and girls who may not be privileged to have the use of such for computer instruction, recreational athletics, cooking, and other wholesome activities in their free hours from school.

Real Men Charities, Inc. was organized to foster and encourage education in the culinary arts by assisting cookbook authors and cooks to develop recipes and effect working relationships with media, manufacturers, processors, chefs, restaurants, hotels, importers and other organizations and individuals concerned with cooking and recipes.

Maintaining camps and centers for instructive recreative purposes, building, purchasing, owning or leasing and managing camps, dining halls, reading rooms and other buildings for the purpose of the corporation as set forth herein.

Real Men Charities, Inc. was organized to diffuse a general knowledge of literature, art, and science through the medium of lectures, publications, and dramatic performances to assist other educational, civic, political and economic movements and organizations; and to cooperate with such to initiate such movements.

Real Men Charities, Inc. was organized to foster and encourage positive parenting, to promote good health practices and create programs and partnerships to decrease fatalities due to hypertension, diabetes and prostate cancer to name a few.

Real Men Charities, Inc. was organized to accept, hold, invest, reinvest and administer any gifts, bequests, devises, benefits of trusts and property of any sort, without limitation as to amount or value, and to use, disburse, or donate the income or principal thereof for exclusively charitable purposes.