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volunteering at the klein center

Join us in the CoBank Volunteer Zone for daily morning shifts starting at 9am and weekday evening shifts from 6 – 8pm. Sign up now via our online Volunteer Portal.

Community Meals

Every day with the help of dedicated volunteers, we transform 3,000 pounds of otherwise wasted food into 5,000 healthy meals for our community. These aren’t simply bags of donated groceries or crates of canned goods – they’re real meals, made by hand by graduates of our Culinary Job Training program who now work for us full-time at living wages. We then put these meals onto our fleet of trucks and deliver them to more than 80 partner agencies in the Washington metropolitan area, including homeless shelters, rehabilitation clinics, and after-school programs.

Our Impact Last Year

2.4 Million

meals prepared for local shelters, nonprofits, and public schools

90,000 Summer meals

served to kids at pools, recreation centers, and camps over school break

$700,000 of Local Produce

purchased for healthy scratch-cooked meals served in our community across DC

Contact Information

Crystal Nicholas, Partnership Program Manager

cnicholas@dccentralkitchen.org