Everyone loves turkey during Thanksgiving, right? How about over 10,000 pounds of it? This year, all of the Campus Kitchens stepped up their games and over 800 volunteers put in over 2,000 hours to collect and prepare record amounts of food to provide Thanksgiving meals across the country. From canned food drives, to family-style community [...]
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5 Reasons to get Excited about this Year’s CKP Conference
Posted in October 3rd, 2011
It’s the tenth anniversary of the start of The Campus Kitchens Project. We’re heading back to our beginnings in St. Louis, MO. Campus Kitchens from across the nation are joining us for the annual CKP conference: Moving a Generation: Social, Environmental, Economic Empowerment. Sounds, kind of serious, doesn’t it? Well – not exactly. Here’s five [...]
Volunteers, First Family Prepare Meals at DC Central Kitchen to Remember 9/11
Posted in September 12th, 2011
As millions spent this weekend giving back to their communities to remember the fallen of September 11, 2001, DC Central Kitchen hosted dozens of volunteers to create thousands of meals – including one very special family. President Obama, First Lady Michelle, and daughters Malia and Sasha helped prepare healthy gumbo and local corn on Saturday [...]
Secure your Spot: The Campus Kitchens Project Annual Conference
Posted in August 25th, 2011
Back to School! Regardless of how you feel about classes, we’re stoked about the force of fearless hunger fighters returning to the Campus Kitchens, jazzing up outfits with hairnets and aprons, and digging into food recovery, meal creation, and innovative programming. With the start of Fall Semester, The Campus Kitchens Project proudly presents this year’s [...]
Stockbox Grocers Harnesses Social Entrepreneurship Spirit
Posted in August 18th, 2011
Connecting local farmers with underserved communities. Teaching teenage mothers how to serve affordable, healthy meals to their children. Meeting weekly with a senior citizen to share a hot meal and company. This type of innovative hunger relief work doesn’t need to end with your final Campus Kitchen shift; it can continue into graduate work, or [...]
Food Hardship in America: How Campus Kitchens are Helping
Posted in August 15th, 2011
Winston-Salem, N.C., according to the Food Research and Action Center’s (FRAC) Food Hardship in America 2010 report, tops the list of Metropolitan Statistical Areas with the highest rates (34.8 percent in Winston-Salem) of food hardship in households with children. These households told the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index that over the course of the last year, there [...]
Volunteering in America: How Campus Kitchens Contribute
Posted in August 11th, 2011
Volunteers (that means you Campus Kitchens) are donating more hours of their time than ever, according to the “Volunteering in America” report released this week by the Corporation for National and Community Service. While the overall amount of U.S. volunteers dropped by less than a percentage point from 2009 to 2010, the proportion of volunteers [...]
How Campus Kitchens work with Farmers Markets
Posted in August 8th, 2011
We’d be hard-pressed to find a Campus Kitchen student who doesn’t love to pluck a fresh tomato from a farmers market stand in support of local food. What we didn’t expect: watching student-led Campus Kitchens take the lead in partnering with farmers markets to bring fresher food to those who can’t afford it. More Campus [...]
Home-cooked Meals Bring Smiles to Hospital Patients
Posted in July 27th, 2011
*By Amanda Parrell: Cross-posted from the Campus Kitchen at Marquette University blog. A few months ago, I received a voicemail from Lesley, who runs Jalyn’s Chapter of the Foundation for Children with Cancer. She wondered what the Campus Kitchen at Marquette University did and if we could help with a program at Children’s Hospital of [...]
Campus Kitchen Garden Party Plants Seeds to Sustainability
Posted in July 26th, 2011
In the thick of summer, most want nothing more than to walk the grounds of a bountiful garden, sip a cool glass of wine, sample cheese, and relax with friends. Now add supporting a local non-profit that uses fresh vegetables from that garden for hot meals that go out to the Spokane, WA community. Bet [...]
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Blogroll
- Campus Kitchen at Gettysburg College - This is your source for all things CKGC.
- Campus Kitchen at the College of William and Mary
- Campus Kitchen at University of Florida
- Civil Eats - Supporting development and dialog among local and national leaders about the American food system, and its effects abroad.
- CKP’s Flickr page - Photos from the hallowed halls of CKP
- Farm to Table: the Emerging American Model - A collaborative journalistic forum aimed at strengthening the sustainable and local foods community
- First Helping - The Outreach Program of DCCK, their stories and insights into the streets of DC
- Good Food Jobs - A gastro-job search tool, designed to link people looking for meaningful food work with the businesses that need their energy, enthusiasm and intellect.
- Growing Power - Growing Power is a national nonprofit organization and land trust supporting people from diverse backgrounds, and the environments in which they live, by helping to provide equal access to healthy, high-quality, safe and affordable food for people in all
- Robert Egger’s Piece of Mind - DC Central Kitchen founder and CEO, and author of Begging For Change, winner of the 2004-2005 Terry McAdam Book Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Advancement of Nonprofit Management, blogs about the Kitchen, CKP, and the changing nonprofit sector.
- Slow Food on Campus - Our friends at Slow Food on Campus promote food that’s good, clean, and fair
- Sodexo USA - Our partners at Sodexo USA have entered the blogosphere!
- Stocks, Sauces, and Soul - This blog documents the class experiences of the Culinary Job Training Students at the DC Central Kitchen.
- The Campus Kitchen at Wake Forest University - The web version of Wake Forest University’s Campus Kitchen
- V3 Campaign - Join the movement to strengthen the nonprofit sector led by Robert Egger, founder and president of DC Central Kitchen.
- W&L Campus Kitchens Project - Find out the latest about the Campus Kitchen at Washington and Lee University.
- Wasted Food - Inspired by a volunteer shift at the DC Central Kitchen, Jonathan Bloom started researching and writing about wasted food in America. His blog is chock-full of information and inspiration for those of us who recycle food.