Campus Kitchens participate in some aspect of service-learning every day – and most of them either are housed on a public school campus or somehow work with a public school through a community partnership. As State Farm and Youth Serve America announced today, these Campus Kitchens are also eligible for a $1,000 grant to complete [...]
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Grant money for MLK Day; The Campus Kitchens Project Now Accepting Applications
Posted in July 29th, 2010
by Jasmine Touton in Beyond the Campus Kitchen, Kitchen Partners, MLK Day Service, Opening your Campus Kitchen
It’s time again to take advantage of up to $2000 in grant money per organization, awarded through the Campus Kitchens Project (through funding from the Corporation for National and Community Service) to put toward a original, volunteer-building MLK Day of Service project at Campus Kitchens, their community partners, and soon-to-be Campus Kitchens. The MLK Day [...]
Service Group Builds Community through the Campus Kitchen at Wake Forest University
Posted in July 6th, 2010
In one week’s time, through hours of labor and a little creativity, a North Carolina church group transformed a communal garden into a true community gathering spot. The Campus Kitchen at Wake Forest University participated in 2010’s MLK Day of Service by committing to a year-long project to build a community garden at a partner [...]
Volunteering is up among Americans, Campus Kitchens
Posted in June 15th, 2010
Volunteering is undergoing its greatest spike in six years, up 1.6 million new Americans over last year, according to the Corporation for National & Community Service’s report released today, June 15. The annual Volunteering in America report found that more than 63.4 million Americans volunteered for more than 8.1 billion hours of volunteer service, saving [...]
A Virtually Delicious Program Wraps up at Campus Kitchens
Posted in April 28th, 2010
At the end of February, the Campus Kitchen at Gettysburg College booted up two fresh initiatives as part of an MLK Day Service Project grant from The Campus Kitchens Project. The Virtually Delicious program takes place in collaboration with The Center/ El Centro, an after school program for first through eighth graders. The series of [...]
The Campus Kitchen at Lee University Hosts a Block Party
Posted in March 9th, 2010
With the first signs of Spring, students from the Campus Kitchen at Lee University in Cleveland, Tenn. celebrated by teaming up with Anthropology and Sociology majors, as well as the Lee University soccer team to host a community block party for residents they rarely get to connect with while living on campus. Using funds from [...]
The Campus Kitchen at Gettysburg College Goes Virtually Delicious
Posted in March 8th, 2010
The Campus Kitchen at Gettysburg College recently jump-started two innovative programs for a community partner with funding from its MLK Semester of Service grant. Below, coordinator Megan Crowe tells how they did it… The first Virtually Delicious lesson with local youth from The Center/El Centro, an after school program for children in first through eighth [...]
The Campus Kitchen Project promotes service across the nation
Posted in January 26th, 2010
Mid-January, 18 projects across the country – sub-grantees of The Campus Kitchens Project – initiated service in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Some completed projects in one weekend. Others will complete their projects over the course of the semester. These pictures come from a youth program, a high school, a service center, a [...]
A Look Inside D.C. Central Kitchen
Posted in January 25th, 2010
Wondering what’s behind the doors of D.C. Central Kitchen, The Campus Kitchens Project parent organization? Curious about how they gathered volunteers this past MLK Day? Here’s a quick look at what goes on, with inspiration (we hope) for volunteers at your Campus Kitchen. In this video: Cindy Slavantis, state office manager at The Corporation for [...]
50,000 Meals for Haiti
Posted in January 22nd, 2010
1.22.2010: This past Wednesday, one of our MLK Day sub grantees – Duke University’s Center for Civic Engagement in Durham, North Carolina, made some last minute changes to their distribution plan and sent 50,000 meals to the people of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. The original plan was to prepare 50,000 nutrient-dense dehydrated rice and soy based meals [...]