As Campus Kitchens across the nation close out their final day of March Matchness fundraising with the final game of the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament, the Campus Kitchen at University of Nebraska Kearney received a donation from a very different kind of sporting team: Tri-City Storm hockey. The donation of just over $2000 will [...]
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Campus Kitchens Keep Plates Full over Winter Break
Posted in December 6th, 2010
Most students are in the midst of finals before winter break. For volunteers at 28 Campus Kitchens across the country, they’ve just wrapped up the massive Turkeypalooza feeding effort to make sure all plates are full for Thanksgiving. But the feeding doesn’t stop there. Campus Kitchen students are also gearing up for winter holiday feeding [...]
Campus Kitchens Ready their Carving Knives for Season of Feeding
Posted in November 1st, 2010
Thanks to the work of 28 Campus Kitchens and a swelling volunteer force this November, hungry individuals and families will gobble up Thanksgiving meals with all the trimmings this Turkey Day. Turkeypalooza is the network-wide effort of The Campus Kitchens Project to ensure all mouths are fed during the month that many Americans share bountiful [...]
Walmart Foundation Gives $467 million; Some Goes to Campus Kitchens
Posted in April 7th, 2010
Foundations don’t always put their money where their mouth is, but in the case of the Walmart Foundation, they put money – $467 million – where some of the hungriest mouths were in 2009, and a chunk of that change came to The Campus Kitchens Project. The Walmart Foundation released a statement that the parent [...]
300 Pounds of Thanksgiving, Stuffed in 3 Compact Cars
Posted in November 25th, 2009
by Jasmine Touton in
…the students must help label and load two types of meals serving 75 people in the community that morning. Among the dishes: 17 whole, roasted turkeys.
‘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 [...]
CKUNK Saturdays at the Farmer’s Market
Posted in May 18th, 2009
by Liz Whitehurst in
Each Saturday morning in Kearney, Nebraska, the parking lot of a Kmart becomes a bustling, smiling, fresh food oasis as local farmers arrive to sell their goods to their community. The coordinators of the Campus Kitchen at the University of Nebraska-Kearney are there each week, collecting the leftovers and accepting donations from producers and consumers alike. ”Kearney [...]
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 [...]
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- 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.