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Liberty's Kitchen is a non-profit organization, located in the
Mid-City New Orleans Mid-City is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. A sub-district of the Mid-City District Area, its boundaries as defined by the New Orleans City Planning Commission are: City Park Avenue, Toulouse Street, North Carrollton, Orleans Aven ...
Neighborhood. Liberty's Kitchen opened its doors in April 2009 after a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. This nonprofit cafe doubles as a training program for teens and young adults who want to change the course of their lives. Liberty's Kitchen provides their students with marketable job skills and experience, and allows them to learn the culinary techniques behind cooking from scratch.


History

Liberty's Kitchen began operations in April 2009 as a social entrepreneurship supporting its sustainability with teaching-focused businesses. Liberty's Kitchen took its first trainees in the Youth Development Program in July 2009 and have since graduated and placed several young people into employment or higher education. Since launching the training program, over 400 participant applications have been submitted. Liberty's Kitchen expanded in 2014 with its move to the ReFresh Project at 300 North Broad Street. With a new 10,000 square foot facility in the ReFresh Project, Liberty's Kitchen is poised to significantly scale its efforts to improve the lives of vulnerable New Orleans youth. The ReFresh expansion offers both the internal capacity and the community collaborations to dramatically increase the number of youth empowered to create healthy futures. In 2015, Liberty's Kitchen re-opened the Green Dot Cafe within the Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center offering paninis, smoothies, coffee, and assorted snacks.


Mission

Liberty's Kitchen seeks young people who demonstrate positive traits, such as leadership or willingness to change, that could help them progress in the Youth Development Program. The objective is to graduate students with a sense of purpose and confidence and the skills and tools to succeed in gainful employment by providing a path to self-sufficiency through food service-based training, leadership, education, and life skills programs.


Accomplishments

Liberty's Kitchen has received donations and support from some of the nation's largest foundations – the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Baptist Community Ministries, the Emeril Lagasse Foundation, and the Goldring Foundation.


New Orleans College Prep

In August 2010, Liberty's Kitchen initiated the Healthy School Lunch Program providing freshly prepared nutritious meals to New Orleans' public schoolchildren on a daily basis. Liberty's Kitchen won the bid and contract for Food Service Management at New Orleans College Prep Charter School to serve over 600 students breakfast, lunch and snack daily.


Partners

Liberty's Kitchen has partnered with many organizations in the New Orleans area, including: *
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine The Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine is part of Tulane University, located in New Orleans, in the U.S. state of Louisiana. History The study of public health in Louisiana began in the early 19th century, when New Orleans suff ...
* New Orleans Providing Literacy to All Youth (NOPLAY) * New Orleans Metropolitan Human Services District. * New Orleans
Covenant House Covenant House is a large, Catholic, privately funded agency in the Americas, whose primary purpose is to promote Catholicism. It provides shelter, food, immediate crisis care, and other services to homeless and runaway young people. Covenant Hou ...
* Ochsner Medical Center Endocrinology Department (Alan Burshell), New Orleans


References


External links

*{{Official website, http://www.libertyskitchen.org/ *https://www.wwno.org/post/learning-through-lunch-libertys-kitchen *https://web.archive.org/web/20120323121220/http://mylifecity.com/news/detail/31/The-GREENtrepreneur-Libertys-Kitchen *https://web.archive.org/web/20111114150153/http://www.mdrtfoundation.org/news/liberty-kitchen/ *https://web.archive.org/web/20120405193758/http://www.wdsu.com/news/24831181/detail.html *https://web.archive.org/web/20111003221400/http://www.fox8live.com/news/local/story/New-Orleans-College-Prep-and-Libertys-Kitchen/2zOfu4AzLUSzGT1od5nfSA.cspx Philanthropic organizations based in the United States