Last school year, 12 students attended the kickoff event for the Campus Kitchen at Atlantic City. This week the Campus Kitchen held a pep rally to build excitement for the second year of operations – and around 50 volunteers attended the event. “Last year we didn’t know what was going on in the community and [...]
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Slow Food $5 Challenge: How to Participate
Posted in August 22nd, 2011
Here’s five bucks. Now serve a nutritionally complete meal. For Campus Kitchens this task is an easy one. Each day, students recover unused food that may have gone to the dump, add in some smartly purchased ingredients, and whip up delicious fare for their community partners. They do all of this at an average price [...]
How They Served: The Campus Kitchens Project Boot Camp 2011
Posted in August 4th, 2011
While The Campus Kitchens Project Boot Camp event – which wrapped up yesterday – did not test participants with push ups and other physical training, it still put students through mental tests … and they came out victorious. The three day event collected student leaders from Campus Kitchens across the country and planted them in [...]
Campus Kitchens: Discovering the Secret Ingredients
Posted in August 2nd, 2011
The only thing that could bring 30 students from Tennessee, Michigan, Texas, Nebraska together in the Washington, D.C. summer heat: The Annual Campus Kitchens Project Boot Camp. This week new kitchen leaders committed to two dozen hours of training learning how to make their Campus Kitchens tick, from lessons in food safety to recipe creativity [...]
Campus Kitchen puts down Roots in North Carolina Local Food Scene
Posted in June 1st, 2011
Volunteers at the Campus Kitchen at Elon University, officially less than a year old, are no strangers to hoeing, driving tractors, and hard farm work. With a newly formed leadership team, the Campus Kitchen quietly began putting down community roots this spring to ensure its sustainability. Now, with the momentum from a farm partnership and [...]
Campus Kitchen serves up City-based Hunger Banquet
Posted in April 25th, 2011
As Campus Kitchen students prepare to visit St. Louis in October for a conference held at CKP’s flagship kitchen, Saint Louis University, a much younger Campus Kitchen at Washington University in St. Louis is spurring new awareness of the hunger problems in the metropolitan region with an original take on the hunger banquet. Campus Kitchens [...]
Announcing Two Campus Kitchen Events
Posted in April 20th, 2011
The academic year is almost over, which means it’s time again to plan for two annual gatherings of The Campus Kitchens Project: In August, new leaders and freshly minted Campus Kitchen organizers will join the CKP national office team in Washington, D.C. for an interactive, three-day Boot Camp event. Then, in October, every Campus Kitchen [...]
March Matchness: A CKP Fundraising Event
Posted in March 10th, 2011
29 schools. 20 days. One Fight Against Hunger. Next week CKP will take the court with a competitive fundraising event, and all Campus Kitchens are invited to play. As top collegiate teams anticipate Selection Sunday, Campus Kitchens across the nation will set up individual fundraising pages to compete in March Matchness beginning March 15. Their [...]
The Campus Kitchen at Kent State University Opens Shop
Posted in February 22nd, 2011
The Campus Kitchen at Kent State University will dip its first wooden spoon into the mixing bowl tomorrow as student leaders run their first-ever cooking shift. The first Campus Kitchen in Ohio and one of 29 across the network, Kent State plans to serve 75 meals every Wednesday to Kent Social Services, an agency where [...]
University of Detroit Mercy Opens First Campus Kitchen in Michigan
Posted in January 28th, 2011
Washington, D.C. – As many Michigan families continue to struggle in a tough economy, students at the University of Detroit-Mercy (UDM) are using on-campus kitchen space and unused cafeteria food to feed families and individuals in need. Thanks to funding from the Walmart Foundation and a campus partnership with Sodexo, the campus dining services company, [...]
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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.