Here at the CKP National Office, we love emails and calls like this:

“I’m a student volunteer/dining services manager/community service department head and I heard about your inspiring/innovative/interesting project. How can I get a Campus Kitchen at my school?”

Students at William Jewell College in Liberty, MO, did us one better. After a quick phone call at the beginning of 2009, they called last week to tell us that the Campus Kitchens Project has been chosen as the 2009 Pryor Legacy Project!

As part of the Capstone Course, Pryor Fellows at William Jewell use the skills they’ve learned during the three-year leadership development program to create something lasting for their campus community.

The class was split up into three teams, and each researched a possible project. Brittany Talley consulted with us at the CKP national office by phone and with university administration before winning the vote by a landslide.

Brittany learned about CKP when she was an intern at the Truman Scholarship Foundation setting up a service day at DC Central Kitchen, CKP’s parent organization. “I immediately thought that it would be a great Legacy Project for our Pryor Class,” she says.

As anyone who has set up a Campus Kitchen knows, Brittany and the Pryor Fellows have plenty of work to do before their Kitchen serves its first meal: finding 25-50 cubic feet of cold storage space, figuring out what to do with that 20-lb can of chickpeas, getting their budget details hammered out. But we’re excited to be working with them and looking forward to a Fall 2010 launch!

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