Community Loaves

Community Kitchens Program: This program creates additional volunteer baking opportunities by developing dedicated baking spaces, aka kitchens. Having these additional spaces serves multiple objectives. One objective is to provide more shared learning opportunities. Up to six volunteers can participate, engage, and bake communally in the kitchens. Volunteers are mentored on bread techniques and socialize with other participants. Another objective is larger donations to the food bank. The combined efforts from a larger dedicated kitchen space yield significantly larger donations for the food bank. And finally, reduced barriers to participation. Hosting baking sessions in a Community Kitchen allows us to remove participation costs for the volunteer. At the Community Kitchen, all ingredients are provided, and the volunteer's contribution is their service time.