You’re looking at the blog of the Campus Kitchens Project, a groundbreaking initiative that brings colleges and universities together with student volunteers, on-campus dining services professionals, and community organizations to combat hunger in cities across the United States.
Each Campus Kitchen is hosted by a college or university, and coordinates food donations, prepares and delivers meals to area social service agencies, teaches basic food preparation and culinary skills to unemployed and underemployed men and women, and provides service learning opportunities for students.
Here are our current locations. National Campus Kitchens are marked with a fork and knive, affiliates in blue, and campus kitchens opening their doors by Spring 2010 in green.
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Looking toward the future, The Campus Kitchens Project will expand its network across the country, not only to colleges and universities, but to any school with a commitment to valuable service experiences for students and resourceful solutions to hunger in the community.
The best part about The Campus Kitchens Project is that all of this amazing work is led by college students–our next generation of leaders, businesspeople, public servants, educators and non-profit professionals. Our student volunteers ARE The Campus Kitchens Project, and their work is what makes CKP tick. You’ll see evidence of that throughout our work, and throughout this website. Everything–from food recycling to job training to special initiatives for clients–has the fingerprints of college students all over it.
As volunteer Lori Vincent says, “The greatest joy of volunteering with the Campus Kitchen is that the possibilities are endless.”
Here you’ll find out what’s going on in our network of 26 Campus Kitchens: we’re celebrating the awesome work we do, sharing useful information about issues that matter to CKP, and inspiring students at new schools to start their own Campus Kitchen. We also encourage you to check out our chapters’ own blogs, which you’ll find on our blogroll.
To learn more about the Campus Kitchens Project, visit our website at www.campuskitchens.org.
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