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Manolo Betancur

Manolo Betancur

Idea Entrepreneur and Community Activist in Charlotte, NC. US.

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Manolo Betancur

This Year Starts With Good News

January 2, 2023 by Manolo Betancur Leave a Comment

This year starts with good news, our friends from Xatuhka Nekapr, the small bakery, were featured on CNN. I was thrilled to see them making new year’s bread in the ovens that all the Charlotte donors and friends of Manolos Bakery helped build with their money. Reports like these help multiply the efforts you made […]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Charlotte, Manolo Betancur, Manolos Bakery, Ukraine

You are the cherry on Manolo’s cake—some words to say thanks.

November 24, 2022 by Manolo Betancur Leave a Comment

By Manolo Betancur As it is happening to me, I am sure you are getting a lot of emails about Thanksgiving day, and it is that time of the year, and so on… I really hope you are reading it. I don’t want you to skip it because the following words are coming from my […]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Charlotte, Manolo Betancur, Manolos Bakery, Thanksgiven2022

Words for friends at UPPYS Awards UPstanding Person of the Year Ceremony

November 15, 2022 by Manolo Betancur Leave a Comment

Thank you, @UPpalate for this #TheUppys USA UPstanding Person of the Year award 🙂 You and all the community around our restaurants in #Charlotte strengthen me to continue baking happiness and helping others. I share the memory of my words yesterday at the ceremony. Love to #Ukraine. Manolo Betancur Words  UPPYS’ Award Words I am a […]

Filed Under: Articles, Speech Tagged With: Charlotte, Manolo Betancur, North Carolina

Thank you Unpretentious Palate

October 13, 2022 by Manolo Betancur Leave a Comment

I am not a super hero, I am a regular human being that sometimes get’s tired. This morning, I was feeling tired but I was not physically tired I was tired of the coldest of humanity. Tired of seeing how humanity have short memory and tired of seeing how selfish We all can act. Thank […]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Manolo Betancur, Manolos Bakery, UPPY Awards gala

With your donations we help built this wonderful oven in Ukraine

June 20, 2022 by Manolo Betancur Leave a Comment

Good News From Ukraine. This is the result of your donations at Manolo´s Bakery. We all helped build this wonderful oven in Ukraine. This bakers at Xatuhka Nekapr (The Bakers House ) engaged in the heroic act of keeping the community unity through bread and resisting the invasion. This is part of the work we […]

Filed Under: Helping Ukraine Tagged With: Charlotte, Manolo Betancur, Manolos Bakery, World Bread Hero USA 2021

¿What I saw in Poland?

May 24, 2022 by Manolo Betancur 1 Comment

 May 22/2022 The Poland Experience – Myers Park United Methodist ¿What I saw in Poland? By Manolo Betancur “Guest in the house, God in the house!”  A Poland proverb. I would like to share with you what I saw in Poland.  Not Again. 1- I saw how Europe is getting united. To me they are […]

Filed Under: Articles, Speech Tagged With: Manolo Betancur, Manolos Bakery

“I did it” is not only the end, it is the awareness of a better you.

December 14, 2021 by Manolo Betancur Leave a Comment

My mother brought Rocky into my life. -“Rocky, ¿Do you believe that America is the land of opportunities?”- I was 8 years old the first time that I heard those words and those words marked me forever.  

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Manolo Betancur, Manolos Bakery, Museum of Art Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Rocky, Rocky estatue, Silvester Stallone

Don’t give up, choose a local hero and always be kind.

November 22, 2021 by Manolo Betancur 2 Comments

Three stories featured in my Small Business Awards thanks speech on the occasion of American Philanthropy Day.

Filed Under: Articles, Speech Tagged With: Charlotte, Charlotte Bilingual Preschool, Manolo Betancur, Manolos Bakery, National Philanthropic Day

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