Community Kitchen Pittsburgh (CKP) is a Pennsylvania-based 501c3 nonprofit founded in 2013. They provide thousands of prepared meals daily to area homeless shelters, schools, afterschool programs and other nonprofits serving vulnerable clientele through their community meals program, and culinary job training and transitional employment for adults experiencing barriers to employment. They have always integrated their food access work with job training and employment opportunities because food insecurity and joblessness are entwined issues.
Community Kitchen Pittsburgh uses food as the foundation to change lives and improve communities.
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They are proud to report that through their community meals program, they have prepared and delivered over 5 million meals to food insecure, low-income and other vulnerable families, children and adults throughout the Greater Pittsburgh region. They have also supported, trained and placed nearly 700 people into regional food industry jobs, providing short-term vocational training that puts people back to work, and provides a staffing pipeline to the hospitality sector that currently provides 80,000 regional jobs and continues to grow.
How You Can Help
Book your next catering through Community Kitchen Pittsburgh—not only does the revenue support their programming, but their culinary students learn their craft by assisting their catering chefs. You can also make tax-deductible donations to support either their culinary training or their community meals programs.
Community Kitchen Pittsburgh generates 60% of its operating budget from their social enterprises, such as catering services and their food truck. The other 40% comes from charitable donations. These donations allow them to provide students with everything they need to learn and excel—uniforms, kitchen tools, curriculum materials, transportation, math classes, financial literacy classes, and of course 12 weeks of culinary training under the direction of their professional chef instructors.
To donate, visit ckpgh.org/donate-today.
Story and Photography by Community Kitchen Pittsburgh
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