About the Center

The Campus Kitchen at JHU

Website: http://www.campuskitchens.org/schools/jhu

Mission Statement

The Campus Kitchen at JHU is a student-run non-profit organization dedicated to using surplus food to provide balanced, nutritious meals for hungry men, women, and children in the local Baltimore area.  We receive donations of foods that would otherwise go to waste and incorporate it into healthy meals, which we cook in our kitchen and distribute amongst local organizations that work to relieve hunger and strengthen our community.  Beyond that, we focus on using food as a tool to empower the community -- by physically strengthening bodies, but also by strengthening minds and talents through nutrition and culinary arts education programs.

We provide opportunities for volunteers at all levels of engagement, from working in our kitchen to being an active leader within the organization. To learn more about getting involved, you can visit our site: www.campuskitchens.org/schools/jhu.

CKJHU is in fact the 20th branch of the national organization, the Campus Kitchens Project, which aims to spread the food recovery model begun at the DC Central Kitchen by Robert Egger over 20 years ago to universities across the nation.  There are currently 23 participating campuses, but the number grows every year.

Contacts

Related sites:

Campus Kitchen Project: www.campuskitchens.org
DC Central Kitchen: www.dccentralkitchen.org

 

Spring 2011 Volunteer Opportunities:


Tuesday:

  • Cooking Prep Shift- 5:30-7:00pm, Come to the Franciscan Center, to help chop and prepare fresh produce for use in daily meals!

*  Meet at the Center for Social Concern, 3103 North Charles Street at 5:15 if you need transportation. *
Wednesday:

  • Cooking  Shift at Church of the Guardian Angel: 4:30-7:00pm, Help prepare and serve a meal for 30 clients at this local community church in Remington.

*Meet at Levering at 4:30, to leave for the Church*
Friday:

  • Healthy Cooking Classes: 11am-12:30pm AND 12:30-2:00pm, Come assist in teaching a group of Waverly Middle School Students in healthy cooking, each week we prepare a new recipe!
  • 1st class- 11am-12:30pm- Meet at the Center for Social Concern at 10:40 for pickup
  • 2nd class- 12:30-2pm – Meet at the CSC at 12:15 for pickup

*If you are interested in helping to plan a lesson or have a recipe idea you want to teach, e-mail abachma2@jhu.edu with your ideas (check out our blog to see what we have made in the past!)*
**To sign up for a shift e-mail
ckjhu.volunteer@gmail.com
saying your name,cell number and which shift you would like**

or you could just re-direct people to the page on our website which is: http://campuskitchens.org/schools/jhu/volunteer/