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 [...]
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The Campus Kitchens Project set to attend National Conference on Volunteering and Service
Posted in June 2nd, 2011
As communities across the country face challenges ranging from the dropout crisis to childhood hunger to natural disasters, and as Americans look for ways to give back, volunteer service has become an essential strategy for solving community challenges. Leaders from the service sector, including CEO of DC Central Kitchen Mike Curtin and staff from The [...]
Latino Hunger Summit Exposes Lack of SNAP Participation
Posted in May 19th, 2011
Staff and coordinators from The Campus Kitchens Project joined anti-hunger advocates from California to Philadelphia in Washington, D.C. this week for No Mas Hambre, a one-day summit addressing food insecurity in the Latino Community. While panels covered topics like fighting childhood obesity and health disparities, speakers continually returned to the subject of SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance [...]
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 [...]
Scenes from Hungry for Justice with The Campus Kitchens Project
Posted in October 15th, 2010
by Jasmine Touton in Beyond the Campus Kitchen, Kitchen Advice, Kitchen Innovation, Kitchen Partners, Opening your Campus Kitchen
The words “Hungry for Justice” have floated around this space a lot recently – and now that the October 8-10 annual conference of The Campus Kitchens Project and Baylor University’s Poverty Summit has sent students and community members back to their hometowns to put ideas to action, we’d like to share some of the scenes [...]
The Campus Kitchens Project Responds to Hungry for Justice
Posted in October 13th, 2010
by Jasmine Touton in Beyond the Campus Kitchen, Kitchen Advice, Kitchen Innovation, Kitchen Partners, Opening your Campus Kitchen
Local news coverage of Hungry for Justice: Social, Economic, Environmental The Campus Kitchens Project national office team arrived home Sunday, October 10 from three whirlwind days at Hungry for Justice: Social, Economic, Environmental in Waco, TX bearing new vintage boots, belt buckles – and a better understanding what gets the national network of Campus Kitchens [...]
Watch Hungry for Justice Live on Ustream – Campus Kitchens Project Annual Conference
Posted in October 6th, 2010
Many Campus Kitchen volunteers and coordinators are hanging up their hairnets and heading to Texas this weekend for the joint effort of Baylor University’s Poverty Summit and The Campus Kitchens Project Annual Conference: Hungry for Justice. For Campus Kitchen volunteers and others who are staying home from the conference this year -we’ve got you covered! [...]
Hot Urban Gardening Coalition Plants Seeds for Conference Participants, Campus Kitchens
Posted in September 27th, 2010
It’s no secret around the sustainable student community that urban gardening is, well, the “hot” thing to do. Green living-themed student houses now grow their own veggies for family-style dinners, campuses like Augsburg College host their own farmer’s markets, and almost any student with stomach for fresh, local food won’t hesitate to spend a day [...]
The Kianga Project brings Economic Empowerment to CKP Conference
Posted in September 16th, 2010
Each participant at the Hungry for Justice Poverty Summit, a collaboration between Baylor University and The Campus Kitchens Project annual leadership conference, will receive a hand-beaded, African bracelet as a ticket to a diverse range of conference sessions. These bracelets are more than a work of art. They represent three students working to combat poverty [...]
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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.