Dandy Don’s HomeMade Ice Cream participates in the fundraising activities of long established charities like Planned Parenthood, Children Affected by AIDS, Special Olympics, the Concern Foundation, the Starlight Foundation, and the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

“Hot fudge sundaes are our bullets in the battle of the diseases we want to vanquish,” says Dandy Don’s owner Don Whittemore. He loves to do community service work “because it’s a fun way of giving.” Whittemore also donates discount coupons for ice cream sundae bars to the charities for their silent auctions.

In October Dandy Don’s will be serving hot fudge sundaes at the Children Affected by AIDS Dream Halloween party, Bon Appetit’s fundraising event, and the Special Olympics. “We use the opportunity to promote ourselves and we give of our services gladly,” says Dandy Don. “It’s always better to give than receive.”

The folks at Dandy Don’s HomeMade Ice Cream have themselves a new ice cream truck and they’re just burstin’ with pride over it. It’s big (about 20 feet long), red (fire-engine style), and hand-painted (by American Sign Company in Van Nuys) with Don’s picture and the gold medals garnered by the ice cream since 1996. [...more]

Dandy Don’s HomeMade Ice Cream has been busy making ice cream sundae dreams come true for casts and crews of television shows, movies, and plays. We recently set up a sundae bar for the construction crew who built Jay Leno’s new set for “The Tonight Show.” (Jay has had plenty of visits from us in [...more]

Dandy Don’s Ice Cream recently served 2000 ice cream scoops to employees in the Sun America building in Century City. The scoops of home-made ice cream were given out as incentives to tenants for complying with the fire drill happening that day. Dandy Don’s stationed employees bearing ice cream across 38 floors of the building [...more]

Dandy Don’s HomeMade Ice Cream just finished serving ice cream sundaes on the sets of two popular television shows. The ice cream social for “The West Wing” came one day after the presidential show won its Emmys. Bette Midler celebrated the high ratings of the debut of her show “Bette” with an ice cream social [...more]

Dandy Don’s HomeMade Ice Cream served sundaes Tuesday night, August 15th, at a reception for Senator Edward Kennedy following his speech at the Democratic National Convention in downtown Los Angeles. The reception was given by Kennedy’s niece, Maria Shriver, and her husband Arnold Schwartzenegger at their Pacific Palisades estate. Savory snacks and pastries were provided [...more]

When producers of the television show “Blind Date” called Dandy Don to see if they could film a segment of their real-life dating-experience show at his ice cream factory, Don said, “Sure!” The T.V. crew showed up at the plant in Van Nuys on Thursday evening to film the couple making ice cream together. Chea [...more]

Did you know that July is National Ice Cream Month? Pretty soon you’ll hear radio and television advertisements for ice cream playing hourly. Your customers will hear them, too. This could be a good time to start serving Dandy Don’s ice cream. Dandy Don’s makes super premium ice cream every day in Van Nuys. Juan [...more]