Community Kitchen Pittsburgh

“Prior to the form 990 being filed, the finance committee reviews the form. The finance committee will in turn provide the form to the full board for board member approval.”

“Periodic reviews are performed.”

“The board reviewed compensation studies from both charity navigator and bridgespan consulting; considered the budget; and discussed the recommendation in a closed door session”

“Documents are available upon request during business hours.”

“Community kitchen pittsburgh is a nonprofit food service company. Because poverty, food insecurity and employment are entwined issues, we work across these focus areas, engaging in the following activities: "culinary based workforce training: we offer a 16 week culinary based training program targeting chronically unemployed, low-income individuals with barriers to employment. Our clients are transitioning from incarceration, homelessness, addiction and other barriers. We provide applied training in our commissary kitchen based on an established, proven curriculum, along with remedial math, cognitive behavioral therapy, and employability skills. We work with clients on job search and placement, and follow them for 12 months post-placement to ensure retention. "food services: we utilize tens of thousands of pounds of short-shelf-life fresh product every month that otherwise would be thrown away, and use that to prepare nutritious food for struggling individuals and families through congregate feeding sites, shelters, drop-in centers, meals on wheels, and through other nonprofits who feed low-income and food-insecure individuals. We also provide freshly prepared daily meal services to schools and nonprofit managed care providers that are interested in healthy scratch foods for their students and patients as part of an overall holistic approach to both education and health. All of the meals we prepare become part of our culinary curriculum, with clients working under the direction of chef trainers to learn culinary concepts in the process of preparing meals. "food education: we provide in-classroom and community-based education for youth and families around topics like understanding nutrition labels, choosing healthy options, cooking on a budget, cooking safely for younger siblings, and advocating for better food in their schools and neighborhood stores. "food access: in partnership with our community partners, we work to ensure our eligible consumers are enrolled in snap and accessing cacfp feeding sites, and that our school partners are utilizing nslp, free breakfast programs, and fresh fruit initiatives available to them so that their low-income students have daily access to nutritious food. Community kitchen pittsburgh is especially committed to increasing the number of afterschool and summer feeding meal sites for food-insecure children. We are a cacfp sponsor agency and in partnership with other cacfp sponsors, we identify host sites where children come for programming or activities, and deliver freshly prepared healthy meals, provide required site monitoring, and process all the required paperwork to ease the burden on the host agencies who often do not have the internal capacity to manage a feeding program.”

“We ensure the highest quality food makes it to the tables of the most vulnerable among us. We prepare and deliver thousands of meals every day to food-insecure residents throughout the community. We rescue short-shelf life fresh produce that would otherwise be thrown away, and use it in fresh, daily meals for shelters. As a state-registered fsmc, we prepare and deliver usda-compliant, from- scratch meals to area schools and other institutional/congregate feeding programs. We provide full-service copacking services for regional growers”