At DC Central Kitchen, our successes and failures are an open book. We believe that sharing our big wins along with our missteps is the fastest way to address the social challenges we fight against. It’s in this spirit of transparency, innovation, and collaboration that we release the second edition of our best practices and… Read more »
“For a long time I didn’t like who I was, and I hid from the truth. Today, I have no shame of my truth.” Chris sits tall across the big conference table at DC Central Kitchen’s social enterprise hub in Northeast DC. Just a few minutes before, he was making rounds through the kitchen, greeting his colleagues on… Read more »
Each spring, the Council of the District of Columbia convenes a busy schedule of hearings evaluating the performance of DC government agencies and weighing how best to spend taxpayer dollars in the coming year. This year, this important democratic process has included a powerful new set of voices: the women and men of DC Central… Read more »
It’s Women’s History Month, and across the country, we’re paying homage to the many women who have transformed our country, and our communities, for the better. At DC Central Kitchen, we want to recognize a few women from our history – just a few among the many phenomenal women who have propelled us forward. _________________… Read more »
DC Central Kitchen takes pride in the nutritious, scratch-cooked school meals we serve to 4,000 low-income students at 15 DC schools every day. But we don’t just provide meals. We’re also engaging students in building healthy habits that will last a lifetime. For the past two years, our Healthy School Food program has been proud… Read more »
Our procurement team is always looking for ways to find new, quality food suppliers in order to maintain our commitment to healthy, locally sourced, scratch cooked meals. A perfect example of this is our new partnership with Dress It Up Dressing. Our staff first connected with Sophia in 2017, the owner and creator of Dress… Read more »