The Healthy Corners Team chats with Bellevue residents outside of Elmira Market at a community event on Wednesday, October 13, 2021. Elmira Market is one of the Healthy Corners partner stores that now accepts WIC checks. Hadley Chittum | DC Central Kitchen Ten years after the first seeds of Healthy Corners stores were planted in… Read more »
Michael Klein speaks to the crowd of DC Central Kitchen supporters at the Bringing the Kitchen Home Launch Event on Thursday, September 30, 2021. Friends and supporters of DC Central Kitchen filled The Point’s dining room on Thursday, September 30, 2021 as we officially launched the Bringing the Kitchen Home campaign, an important milestone in… Read more »
New Headquarters in Southwest DC to be Named The Michael R. Klein Center for Jobs & Justice Washington, DC – October 1, 2021 – After 30 years of life-changing efforts in the basement of a downtown homeless shelter, DC Central Kitchen has launched the Bringing the Kitchen Home campaign as it prepares to move into… Read more »
CJT Class 125 celebrates after receiving their diplomas at the RISE Demonstration Center on Monday, September 27, 2021. It was an inspiring afternoon on Monday, September 27th as 19 graduates filed into the DC RISE Demonstration Center to receive their official diplomas for completing our Culinary Job Training (CJT) program. Class 125, sponsored by Raytheon… Read more »
Food insecurity did not simply become a crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic – it already was one for 35 million Americans — but it did become far more visible. In addition to not having enough food to eat, millions of Americans struggle to access the nutritious foods they need to maintain their health and reduce… Read more »
Gleaning – the act of collecting leftover crops from a farmer’s fields after the harvest – goes back centuries. DC Central Kitchen relies on our local farm partners, including Dreaming Out Loud, Potomac Vegetable Garden, and the Franciscan Monastery, among others in the National Capital Region, to prepare and deliver nutritious meals to community partners… Read more »
