DC Central Kitchen
Non-profit organization · Buzzard Point ·
Community kitchen combats hunger, poverty via job training
Community kitchen combats hunger, poverty via job training
"The nonprofit’s new headquarters in Buzzard Point sits right near the recovery site; after the Metropolitan Police Department made sure its usual meal deliveries got out that morning (says chief development officer Alexander Justice Moore), the organization pivoted to provide hundreds of free, hot lunches to a few nearby locations via a mobile delivery truck. Craig Newmark donated the truck to the organization during the pandemic to prepare for emergencies like these. First responders received meals full of herb-roasted chicken, mac and cheese, roasted green beans, and butternut squash. Today more than 120 people made online donations to help cover the costs, and the group plans to return to Gravelly Point with hot meals tomorrow and as needed going forward, says Moore." - Tierney Plumb
"José Andrés’s nonprofit kitchen that received active support and fundraising help from Bourdain; it is described as a program focused on feeding people experiencing homelessness while also training and educating new restaurant-industry professionals." - Maria Bustillos
"A Washington, D.C. social enterprise that trains adults with histories of incarceration, homelessness, and addiction while producing meals for community agencies; during the pandemic it converted a new job-training café into a large food-production site, hired additional graduates, launched a mobile feeding program for housing sites (especially senior sites), and pivoted into fresh-grocery distribution—investing about $1.6 million in local farms, building a distribution center, and delivering over 1.6 million pounds of produce to more than 150 locations, which also generated critical revenue for roughly 69 small- and medium-sized family farms." - Georgia Freedman
"A well-regarded nonprofit that prepares meals from scratch as part of culinary job training and distribution programs, requesting donations to support tens of thousands of meals served weekly while its volunteer program is suspended indefinitely due to the pandemic." - Tierney Plumb
"I decided to donate the proceeds from each print, minus overhead like printing and packaging, to DC Central Kitchen, a hunger-fighting nonprofit that’s taking a hard hit right now; they usually see my students in the summer, and while this may not directly help my students every day, I hoped the donations could still make a difference." - Adele Chapin