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A Campus Kitchen is an on-campus student service program that is a member of the nonprofit organization, The Campus Kitchens Project. At a Campus Kitchen, students use on-campus kitchen space and donated food from their cafeterias to prepare and deliver nourishing meals to their communities. The organization is headquartered in
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, on the campus of
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. There are currently 63 Campus Kitchens, located in
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; and more (see full list of Campus Kitchens below).


Operations

* Each Campus Kitchen is hosted by a school who shares space in one dining hall's kitchen, which is termed the "Campus Kitchen." (Usually, this space is used during less busy or off-hours for the dining hall, such as evenings and weekends.) * Students go to dining halls and cafeterias at designated times to pick up unserved, usable food. (The dining services companies who donate are protected from liability concerns under the
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Good Samaritan Food Donation Act.) * Students prepare meals using that donated food, as well as food from local
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s, restaurants, grocery stores and
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s. * Then, students deliver meals free of charge to individuals and agencies in the school's neighboring community in need of food assistance. Agencies include homeless shelters, food banks, soup kitchens, and individuals or families in need of food assistance. * Student volunteers also provide empowerment-based education to clients, such as nutrition education to children, healthy cooking classes to families and culinary job training to unemployed adults.


History

The Campus Kitchens Project was developed in 2001 as a national outgrowth of DC Central Kitchen, a successful local community kitchen model in
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. In 1989, Robert Egger, founder and CEO of DC Central Kitchen, pioneered the idea of recycling food from around Washington DC and using it as a tool to train unemployed adults to develop valuable work skills. DCCK became a national model, and as the idea grew, and groups around the country started to open kitchens, Robert started looking for a way to engage the thousands of underutilized school cafeterias and student volunteers in the effort, particularly in rural communities. In the mid-1990s, he piloted a job training program in 10 schools across the U.S. with the American School Food Service, with funding from the USDA. In 1999, two
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students, Jessica Shortall and Karen Borchert, created a small student organization called Homerun that engaged students in cooking and delivering dinners to folks in the community. What started as a hobby instead became a successful campus organization. After graduating, Borchert came to work at DCCK. In 2001, the two concepts came together, and with a start-up grant from the
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Foundation, The Campus Kitchens Project piloted its first program at
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in Missouri.


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References


Northwestern University Observer: September 23, 2004 - Campus Kitchen puts food on the tableStop Hunger - The Campus Kitchens ProjectSaint Louis University Newslink: September 21, 2006: SLU Campus Kitchen Celebrates Five Years


External links


The Campus Kitchens Project
Official site.
DC Central Kitchen
Charities based in Washington, D.C. Youth organizations based in the United States 2001 establishments in the United States Student organizations established in 2001