Scrape away the lights and glam of Atlantic City, New Jersey, and the problem of food insecurity is festering beneath. Families, many living out of the low-cost hotels that dot the Atlantic City landscape, lack the basic nutrition we all deserve. Thankfully, there exists a clan of young food insecurity fighters in Atlantic City’s landscape [...]
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Campus Kitchens Mobilize to Serve Summer Meals
Posted in June 14th, 2011
With summer’s alluring sunshine, work motivation often slumps. Not so for the Campus Kitchen at Northwestern University. This summer, a team of dedicated volunteers will produce an extra 5,000 meals a month through Sodexo’s Feeding Our Future to help replace the meals usually served in schools. Beginning in June, a group of interns and core [...]
Sodexo Foundation Announces STOP Hunger Scholarships, Great for Campus Kitchens
Posted in January 5th, 2011
It’s that time again: time to earn $5,000 or $1,000 for your work to eliminate hunger with Campus Kitchens. The Sodexo Foundation – the anti-hunger charitable arm of the Sodexo, Inc. – recently announced it’s accepting STOP Hunger Scholarship applications. What qualifies you? The awards are open to all students, kindergarten through graduates, who drive [...]
Campus Kitchens Explore Food Waste – Don’t be Trashy
Posted in September 20th, 2010
The Campus Kitchen national office is constantly combing through resources to share everything from cooking tips to food policy knowledge for Campus Kitchens, and everyone interested in student-driven hunger-relief. As fate would have it, one of The Campus Kitchens Project’s major donors and a dining services provider at many of the schools that house Campus [...]
Another Chance to Earn $5000 for Campus Kitchens – The Jenzabar Foundation
Posted in February 15th, 2010
Staffers at The Jenzabar Foundation – a charitable and educational organization – want to reward organizations committed to tackling social issues and promoting social entrepreneurship. The foundation’s third Annual Student Leadership Awards should do the trick: they’re giving $5000 to ten student-led campus groups that make an impact beyond their own institutions. John Beahm, Executive [...]
Campus Kitchen Work Earns Scholarships for School, Provides Skills for Life
Posted in February 9th, 2010
The Campus Kitchen at Augsburg director nominated Jeanette Clark for a Sodexo scholarship in recognition of her work with the kitchen. The kitchen received funding, and Clark earned a scholarship toward her education. Beyond the scholarship, Clark found the Campus Kitchen provided her with skills she could use for the rest of her life. This [...]
Did you miss the Fair Trade/Sodexo discussion? Catch it here.
Posted in February 4th, 2010
Sodexo was the initial funder behind The Campus Kitchens Project. The food service company is also working to make the food they serve (and give to Campus Kitchens) more sustainable, and Fair Trade friendly. This week Sodexo Vice President of Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility sat down with thte CEO of TransFair USA (the U.S. Fair [...]
The 21st Campus Kitchen Warms its Ovens
Posted in February 4th, 2010
The Campus Kitchen at University of Massachusetts Boston, will fire up its ovens for an inaugural meal service Wednesday, February 10 to coincide with a university kickoff event. The Thursday following the event the kitchen begins its first meal service with the help of Sodexo’s David Levine who will offer guidance on techniques and recipes. [...]
Join the Fair Trade live chat with Sodexo, funder of The Campus Kitchens Project
Posted in January 29th, 2010
Sodexo – a food service company that serves 10 million people daily – will test the waters of fair trade and sustainability issues Wednesday, February 3 (11 a.m. PST) with a live UStream discussion between company officials and TransFair, the U.S. Fair Trade labeling organization. The Sodexo Foundation, which sponsors hunger initiatives that target the [...]
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 [...]
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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.