“We use food as the foundation to change lives and strengthen communities.”
At Community Kitchen Pittsburgh, we’ve been “cooking up opportunity” since our doors opened in 2013 and our first graduates completed our Culinary Training Program in 2014.
Since then, we have helped nearly 500 community members successfully complete our program and move on to the next phase of their lives with stable employment in, or adjacent to, Pittsburgh’s culinary industry.
Regardless of someone’s past or present, each person who walks through our doors has the potential to succeed. We offer training programs, transitional employment opportunities, apprenticeships, and job placement services that are designed to meet them where they are at.
We also understand that financial barriers may exist. We help remove those barriers by providing our training and services at no cost to participants, as well as providing other supports to help them succeed.
If you like to cook, if you’re looking for work, or if you’d like to make a change, read on to learn more about our programs.
If you believe that every person has the potential to succeed when given the supports needed, read on to learn how you could help.
Culinary Training
As a student in this program you will work and train alongside professional chefs, learning various skills necessary to have success in the culinary industry.
In addition to our culinary training programs, our students and staff also prepare thousands of meals per week to help provide hunger relief across the city. From the Summer Feeding Program to Meals on Wheels to meals for our houseless community members, we are serving “love on a plate”.
Hunger Relief
We work to increase access to healthy meals and snacks for food insecure community members of all ages.
The services that we offer fund our culinary training program and help us to continue achieving our mission.
How do we do it?
We’re able to provide our culinary training program and job placement services at no cost to participants thanks to the generosity of our supporters — via individual contributions as well as our various social enterprises.
Proceeds from our social enterprises roll back into our programs, allowing us to continue our mission and serve our community. Our social enterprises currently fund approximately 65% of our operating budget as well as the foundation for our training and transitional employment programs.
When you use one of our services — catering, order from the food truck, make a butchery purchase, etc — your dollars make change.
Catering
Preparation of high volume items like catering services is great real-world practice for students in training.
Food Truck
Find our truck popping up across the city.
When you order something from the #CKPghFoodTruck, “your dollars make change”.
Unified Fields
Heavy emphasis on butcher training and business support to build a highly skilled workforce that supports farm-to-fork meat economies
Support CKP
By making your contribution today, our dedicated staff can put it to work right away to benefit our students and the community.