Jessica Zha, the current AmeriCorps Vista and Coordinator for the Campus Kitchen at Johns Hopkins University, will leave her position in July 2010 to pursue medical school. The school just listed the AmeriCorps position on idealist.org. Below, she describes her top five reasons why she loves her job. Also below: the job listing – [...]
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MLK Day 2010: Looking Back on Last Year’s Service
Posted in January 6th, 2010
As the 18 organizations participating in The Campus Kitchens Project’s MLK Day/Semester of Service finalize plans and fire up their ovens, hundreds of volunteers are readying to grab a fork and pitch in, holding inaugural meal services, jump-starting culinary training programs, carpooling to under served communities, and tilling gardens in honor of Martin Luther King [...]
Top CKP Moments of 2009
Posted in December 31st, 2009
by Jasmine Touton in
We cooked. We fed. We conquered.
The family of 20 campus kitchens that make up The Campus Kitchens Project saw a lot of highs and lows, cabbage and carrots, PB&J’s and pastas, tomatoes and turkeys in 2009. The year of an ill economy, swine flue epidemic, and a healthcare overhaul also marked a period of successes [...]
CK Blogfiles: Dear CKJHU Leaders, Helpers, Volunteers, and Friends
Posted in December 21st, 2009
by Jasmine Touton in
Every Monday, we’ll try to get a first-person account or post from one of our individual campus kitchen blogs featured on the national blog. Jessica Zha, Campus Kitchen Coordinator at Johns Hopkins University, just re-started her kitchen’s blog presence to end out the semester. Read what CKJHU did this semester, at a glance:
Dear CKJHU Leaders, [...]
‘New Millennium’ Kick-off
Posted in October 26th, 2009
by Joelle Johnson in
10.26.09: CKP’s ‘new millennium’ kicked-off this past weekend at the annual Leadership Conference in Washington D.C. There were over 60 attendees representing 17 different Campus Kitchens. The weekend began with the preperation and delivery of the millionth meal served since CKP’s inception 8 years ago. This was a major milestone for the organization and it went [...]
A Presidential Day of Service
Posted in September 22nd, 2009
by Ariel Gold in
On September 12, 2009, Johns Hopkins University commemorated the formal inauguration of its new president, Ron Daniels, with a university-wide Day of Service. More than 1,000 faculty, staff, and students signed up to participate in service projects on campus and in the Community. The Campus Kitchen at Johns Hopkins University sponsored a gleaning trip to [...]
5 tips for running smooth summer ops
Posted in May 13th, 2009
by Liz Whitehurst in
Campus Kitchens are not just student service clubs, but active, essential members of their communities. That means that even when school is out for the summer, Campus Kitchens are still making meals happen.
Keeping your Campus Kitchen going through the summer poses serious challenges: dining halls have fewer leftovers or none at all and having fewer [...]
CKJHU’s got a seat at Baltimore’s food policy table
Posted in May 6th, 2009
by Liz Whitehurst in
The Campus Kitchen at Johns Hopkins University is the newest member of the national CKP network, but they’ve already got a seat at the table with some of Baltimore’s key stakeholders when it comes to food and hunger.
CKJHU is part of Baltimore’s new Food Policy Task Force, founded by Mayor Sheila Dixon
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Hopping at Hopkins
Posted in March 29th, 2009
by Jordan Kough in
Hey everyone, just wanted to let you see one more awesome thing going on at CKJHU. Movie stars for sure!
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Our first-ever guest blog post, from our brand-new Campus Kitchen at Johns Hopkins
Posted in February 3rd, 2009
by Liz Whitehurst in
Last week, Campus Kitchens at Johns Hopkins used an annual stand-up comedy show for good instead of evil…
Well, that was what the show’s director said when he introduced two of our members to tell the audience who we were and that we wanted their money. The show is part of a class that the [...]