How do you translate your work at the Campus Kitchen into a full-time job after you graduate? The Child Hunger Corps – a new collaboration of ConAgra Foods Foundation and Feeding America – might be the two year plan you’re looking for. August 2010, the first six members of the Child Hunger Corps will roll [...]
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ABP Recognizes 2 Campus Kitchens
Posted in October 1st, 2009
by Joelle Johnson in
10.1.09: On September 23rd the Associated Baptist Press highlighted the Campus Kichens at Baylor and Wake Forest University. The article takes a look at the people who are directly involved with the programs at each, featuring quotes from leadership team members and coordinators. At Wake Forest, student volunteer Andy Ronan points out how the Kitchen has been a [...]
Read, then digest: from harvest to laundromat
Posted in May 22nd, 2009
by Liz Whitehurst in
Ample Harvest? Pass some along: Wasted Food blogs about Ample Harvest, a high-tech way to connect gardeners with extra produce to food pantries that need fresh food. Perhaps it’s one of a number of ways that technology might change the food system, but in the meantime, the Campus Kitchen at the University of Vermont’s Plant a Row [...]
The quest for the right container
Posted in April 30th, 2009
by Liz Whitehurst in
Last week, my email inbox welcomed a perfect example of what a national network of Campus Kitchens is all about. It started with Christine Nemetz, the coordinator at the Campus Kitchen at Gettysburg College and a question we’ve been talking about on this here blog: how do we make our Campus Kitchens more sustainable? Specifically, Christine was talking containers: [...]
Read, then digest: signing the Serve America Act, celebrating Earth Day
Posted in April 24th, 2009
by Liz Whitehurst in
A Call to Service: Obama signed the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act this week, and on the White House blog, they’re asking to hear about your service. Food bank grows its own: A food bank in Arizona is working on growing its own produce, with the help of a “Midwest farm boy” and a [...]
Read, then digest: tent farm bank bike manifesto
Posted in April 17th, 2009
by Liz Whitehurst in
Last Tent City residents move as homeless debate continues: In the latest from the tent city outside Sacramento, the approximately 150-200 residents have been moved out by the police as of yesterday. These somber photographs capture the lives of people who lived there and in similar camps throughout the state and this post from the Where blog provides a clear summary [...]
Joel Berg: We can end hunger in America
Posted in April 8th, 2009
by Liz Whitehurst in
Check out this interview with Joel Berg, director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, from Cooking up a story. Income disparity is the real problem, he points out, and then argues that the federal government should take the lead in the fight against hunger. Then check out part 2 of the interview. While I agree with [...]
Read, then digest: From forced to leave empty-handed to the city that ended hunger
Posted in March 20th, 2009
by Liz Whitehurst in
Food giveaway sites draw crowds, many forced to leave empty-handed: In case you weren’t convinced that our work is necessary, here’s yet another story about a strapped food distribution site; this time, a few dozen people were even turned away. Says the community services coordinator for ACTION Inc. This, to me, is just a sign [...]
Read, then Digest: more poor, more dough, less waste, more fun
Posted in February 20th, 2009
by Jordan Kough in
Newly Poor Swell Lines at Food Banks: Another week, another story about the growing need for food. This piece highlights the contradictions at food banks in affluent areas, where a former software engineer and a woman with a Vera Bradley handbag load up on lentils and humility. Kathleen DiChiara, executive director of Community FoodBank of [...]