05.2008 - RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service, Social Innovation Competition Semi-Finalists

We made the top 100 from nearly 1,200 ideas for social change. Students offered their innovative solutions to a number of areas, including healthcare, education, the environment, energy sustainability, and nonprofit performance.

03.2008 - Case Foundation, Make It Your Own Awards Semi-Finalists

This grants program challenges people from all walks of life to discuss what matters most to them, decide what kind of community they want, and take action together. After receiving nearly 5,000 great ideas submitted by applicants from all across the country, we made the top 100.

07.10.08 - The Christian Science Monitor, Counter Cyberbullies with Compassion

As a public afraid of the coarsening of our culture online, we must not only try to prevent cyberbullying, but promote cybercompassion. We must support efforts such as the Lifeline Gallery, as well as other online innovations by young altruists such as AllDayBuffet.org – a site that promotes social action and fun “because doing good shouldn’t feel like a chore.”

07.07.08 - Osocio, All Day Buffet

I found this really cool, different and innovative. In my opinion this type of initiative could really get a lot of individuals to join, especially the young ones and people from the creative field. More info after the jump

06.30.08 - ecopop, Drunk With Love. We Heart All Day Buffet.

As we’ve blabbed about before, any brand that does good on your behalf without you having to do anything you wouldn’t normally do is an ecopopstar. The fact that alldaybuffet does it so smoothly is why we want to have their babies. After we get married, of course. Just don’t expect us to wear white, mom.

06.17.08 - Behance Magazine, Event: Make Good Ideas Happen

For one hot night, the roof of the Delancey became a launching pad for social creative action, with over 300 creative and idealistic professionals showing up to help Make Good Ideas Happen.

06.12.08 - Idealist, Postcard from New York City: Making Good Ideas Happen

Everywhere else on the rooftop, people were chatting with strangers and friends about social change websites, community gardens, fundraising, art projects, and more. We left feeling productive, energized, and hopeful—and truly glad we had spent the last two hours on the rooftop, sweating, instead of inside the air-conditioned bar below.

06.10.08 - The Huffington Post, alldaybuffet: Social Activism for the Cool Kids

Enter alldaybuffet, a “social awareness brand for the cool kids”, created in 2007 with the idea of harnessing the creative energy of young New Yorkers and creating a platform to reconcile our busy lives (work hard, play hard) with our hearts’ desire to do good.

06.09.08 - Flavorpill, Make Good Ideas Happen

When it comes to effective social change, talk is cheap. That’s why Behance and alldaybuffet are putting on Make Good Ideas Happen, an event where like-minded idealists get together to hammer out strategies for making neighborhoods more livable.

06.09.08 - LVHRD, Make Good Ideas Happen Tonight

The event is geared towards networking and collaboration. Hopefully, once you hear what these groups are looking to accomplish you’ll stand up and shout “I can help!” or “My friend is the industrial designer you need for that idea!” The more the merrier the easier it will be to make good happen.

04.23.08 - Josh Spear, Cause for Drinks

None of us around here really need an excuse for happy hour, but it’s always a good thing when there’s a cause involved.

02.28.08 - That Other Paper, An evening of drinks and social justice

These days, it’s more difficult for people to be intensely invested in a cause when the minutiae of daily life are constantly pulling them in different directions. Thanks to the Internet, however, more thoroughfares are connecting people, and a different sort of kinetic energy is fomenting a resurgence of interest, passion, and action.

09.17.07 - Austin Business Journal, New group says do good while having fun

Cause for Drinks is launching in Austin this month. Here’s the gist: participants in three different cities gather for happy hour at a particular watering hole and $2 of every drink they buy goes to a selected charity.

08.29.07 - The Times Picayune, N.O.’s needs draw fresh, new thinkers

Karnjanaprakorn and a partner in New York recently launched alldaybuffet.org, a Web site created to give would-be benefactors a way to mix philanthropy and fun. Earlier this week, for instance, the group hosted a “Cause for Drinks” happy hour that raised money for underfinanced schools.

08.15.07 - Influx Insights, Interview with Michael Karnjanaprakorn

Up until now, there’s always been a separation between the things we like with the things that matter most. We want to break the conventions of doing good by infusing the somewhat prude non-profit/charity industry with the creativity and energy of the Creative Class.

07.24.07 - The Drew Blog, Every Little Bit

This Good Magazine meets Flavorpill inspired online forum is intended to help young adults and social entreprenuers (which they haven’t capped by age - so if you’re young at heart, this could be a site for you) have fun while gaining awareness, taking action and making social change.

02.27.08 - PSFK, All Day Buffet. Social change meets Social media.

“Think Fader Magazine meets Human Rights Watch; My Space meets New York Cares; a mix tape meets a political flyer; Live 8 meets the collaborative evolution of a Wikipedia entry. And it’s coming soon.”

02.21.07 - LVHRD, An All Day Buffet

a not-for-profit organization that aims to motivate young adults to recognize problems in the world, learn about them, and act together to make a difference. All this but without compromising one’s capacity to have fun.