🥕 DC Central Kitchen is expanding and we toured the latest updates! Additions include: • A fresh produce market with local items • Classrooms • Additional storage and kitchen space It's expected to open early spring 2027.

Announcing a major new project in DC! @dccentralkitchen.bsky.social just revealed plans to bring a healthy, affordable produce market, expanded job training, and nutritious meals to their community. Read more in this exclusive Washington Business Journal profile. www.bizjournals.com/washington/n...

D.C. Central Kitchen adding produce market, restaurant to Buzzard Point headquarters - Washington Business Journal

D.C. Central Kitchen, the culinary jobs training nonprofit, is expanding its Buzzard Point HQ. A produce market and fast-casual restaurant are among what's being added.

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School is back in session, so it’s time to grade this summer’s fight against childhood hunger. Learn how @dccentralkitchen.bsky.social increased summer meal production by 24%, serving a record 157,000 healthy meals to kids in need: dccentralkitchen.org/2026/08/28/d...

DCCK’s Summer Meals Campaign: A New Record! - DC Central Kitchen

Thank you for being a dedicated partner of DC Central Kitchen, so we can take on the growing needs of our city—no matter what.

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High-quality school meals can take on hunger, health issues, and poverty at once. See how @dccentralkitchen.bsky.social is doing just that in our nation’s capital, with support from our friend @craignewmark.bsky.social . www.washingtoninformer.com/protecting-s...

Food for Thought: Adequate Nutrition in Neighborhoods, Schools

Community leaders and nonprofits are fighting to protect school meal access following federal funding cuts from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

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Looking for an exciting (and delicious) way to support DC Central Kitchen’s fight against hunger and poverty in our nation’s capital? Join us on November 12th for CAPITAL FOOD FIGHT! Tickets are now on sale! capitalfoodfight.org #CFF2026

Who says corner stores can’t offer fresh fruits and vegetables? Read this piece from @wtopnews.bsky.social on the @dccentralkitchen.bsky.social Healthy Corners program and learn what 50+ corner stores and 27,000 annual SNAP customers already know… wtop.com/dc/2026/08/d...

DC nonprofit marks 15 years of making fresh food a corner store staple – WTOP News

For years, most D.C. corner stores were convenient, but most didn't carry much in the way of fresh foods.

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Thanks to our dear friend and Board Chair Emeritus José Andrés for shining a light on Healthy Corners in his most recent blog post! Learn more about this innovative program celebrating 15 years this month! joseandres.substack.com/p/bringing-h...

Bringing healthy produce to our city corners

DC Central Kitchen’s Healthy Corners project has been nourishing our community for 15 years

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High-quality school meals can take on hunger, health issues, and poverty at once. See how @dccentralkitchen.bsky.social is doing just that in our nation’s capital. www.washingtoninformer.com/protecting-s...

Food for Thought: Adequate Nutrition in Neighborhoods, Schools

Community leaders and nonprofits are fighting to protect school meal access following federal funding cuts from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

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Our friends at @dccentralkitchen.bsky.social just got a great feature in The Chronicle of Philanthropy, marking 37 years of turning surplus food into real economic opportunity, with @craignewmark.bsky.social's support also highlighted in the story. Read it here! www.philanthropy.com/news/how-dc-...

How DC Central Kitchen Keeps Expanding While Other Nonprofits Shrink

For nearly four decades, DC Central Kitchen has turned food into a tool for economic mobility — training thousands for careers, feeding up to 17,000 people daily, and building a model nonprofits natio...

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DC Central Kitchen’s Healthy Corners program was recently honored by the Food Systems for the Future Institute (FSFI) at the Grocery Retail Resilience and Innovation Award Ceremony during the Grocery Retail for All Summit in Chicago! dccentralkitchen.org/2026/07/15/h...

Healthy Corners recognized by the Food Systems for the Future Institute - DC Central Kitchen

Spotlighting its innovative approach to expanding access to nutritious foods

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy took a deep dive on @dccentralkitchen.bsky.social and its impact on the nonprofit sector. See why they call this group “a national model for using food to create economic opportunity [that] doesn’t keep its playbook to itself”: www.philanthropy.com/news/how-dc-...

How DC Central Kitchen Keeps Expanding While Other Nonprofits Shrink

For nearly four decades, DC Central Kitchen has turned food into a tool for economic mobility — training thousands for careers, feeding up to 17,000 people daily, and building a model nonprofits natio...

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Thanks to you we’re on track to serve 130,000 summer meals to kids throughout DC this summer! And thanks to an anonymous donor, we have a bonus $10,000 matching challenge! Let’s feed more even more kids while school cafeterias are closed! dccentralkitchen.org/donate/

Summer break can make it harder for kids to get the healthy food they need.This summer @dccentralkitchen.bsky.social will serve a record 130,000 meals to students on break throughout DC. Visit their site today to learn more or lend a hand.  dccentralkitchen.org/2026/06/22/h...

Hunger & Heat: Another Record-Breaking Summer on the Way - DC Central Kitchen

We're taking on summer hunger from every angle

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DC Central Kitchen has 25 delivery trucks on the road all day, every day. We know what it takes to get the job done. We’re only 27% away from our goal. Help us get to the last mile! dccentralkitchen.org/donate/

Congratulations to DC Food Project on successfully wrapping up their 2025-26 distribution! The inspiring DCFP has provided more than 5 million meals with behind the scenes support from DCCK!

For 37 years we’ve been fighting poverty and hunger in DC. Our two-part recipe of healthy food and job training works, especially in times like these. And right now, one local family is matching every gift, up to $150,000! Now is the time to join the fight! dccentralkitchen.org/donate/

As part of the #craigstable initiative in 2023, @DCCK expanded their partnership with Cook for Vets, doubling the nonprofit's meal deliveries! This #MilitaryAppreciationMonth marks three successful years of more meals to more vets! www.linkedin.com/posts/cook-f...

Cook For Vets is grateful for the support from DC Central Kitchen who has been helping us help Veterans for three years. With their support we are delivering 508 meals today to Veterans across… | Co...

Cook For Vets is grateful for the support from DC Central Kitchen who has been helping us help Veterans for three years. With their support we are delivering 508 meals today to Veterans across North...

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Team OAG celebrated National Volunteer Month with our friends at DC Central Kitchen. Thank you for always looking out for our neighbors, @dccentralkitchen.bsky.social! 📦🖤

Need some good news? Celebrate the @dccentralkitchen.bsky.social Culinary Job Training program graduates in this piece! From a second chance to full-time work in one of DC’s best restaurants, it’s a reminder that jobs and opportunity can help fight hunger long-term www.wusa9.com/video/featur...

Graduation celebration: Non-profit serves meals while training the next generation of chefs

D.C. Central Kitchen has been serving food to those in need for over 30 years while training new chefs in a culinary school and internship program.

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In 2025, DC Central Kitchen was open every single day, thanks to you. In fact, we are always open. Open to growth. Open to innovation. Open to all our neighbors. And we’re open when it matters most. Read our brand-new Annual Report... dccentralkitchen.org/impact25/

YOU ARE INVITED! Each quarter, we honor our newest Culinary Job Training graduates at a raucous, joyous ceremony that is free and open to the public. Please join us at 2pm on Friday, April 10 at The Capital Turnaround (700 M St SE) to celebrate CJT Class 179!

April is #NationalVolunteerMonth. Since the first volunteer shifts at the Klein Center for Jobs & Justice on April 1, 2023, our kitchen has produced nearly 4 million community meals, 5 million school meals and 300,000 summer meals. That’s 9 million meals! dccentralkitchen.org/volunteer/

Join us Thursday, March 19 at any of our 3 DC Central Kitchen cafes for the fourth annual #DCCKCafeDay. Special thanks to partner Target and our friends from Bullfrog Bagels, Commonwealth Joe and Sunflower Bakery for being part of this special celebration of our innovative, job creating enterprise!

DC Central Kitchen has been hard at work preparing thousands of advance meals before the winter storm hits DC. WJLA7 featured their plans to fight hunger throughout this weather emergency. Watch the piece here www.youtube.com/watch?si=HRk...

Before snow hits the DMV, these volunteers are making sure their neighbors are ready

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Today is the 37th anniversary of @dccentralkitchen.bsky.social Learn how they've been beating the odds and fighting hunger differently for 13,514 consecutive days dccentralkitchen.org/2026/01/20/d...

DCCK at 37: Embracing Ugly  - DC Central Kitchen

DC Central Kitchen has done just that as we’ve opened our doors without fail for 13,514 consecutive days, thanks to you

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@dccentralkitchen.bsky.social compiled 13 of their favorite stories of progress from 2025. More meals to homebound seniors and veterans, more chances for life-changing careers, more healthy fruits and vegetables for more of our neighbors... dccentralkitchen.org/2025/12/22/o...

Our Favorite Stories of 2025 - DC Central Kitchen

Here are some of the powerful stories that YOU made possible in 2025...

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This Thanksgiving @dccentralkitchen.bsky.social is providing emergency food support to more than 37,000 of our neighbors facing hunger and poverty. Learn how their response efforts meet neighbors right where they are with nourishing food and meaningful connection dccentralkitchen.org/2025/11/19/a...

A Record-Setting Thanksgiving at DC Central Kitchen - DC Central Kitchen

This Thanksgiving, DC Central Kitchen is set to provide emergency food support to more than 37,000 of our neighbors facing hunger and poverty.

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@dccentralkitchen.bsky.social is facing DC’s growing food security challenges head-on. This piece from Mother Jones shows how hunger is affecting government workers and front-line hunger relief programs alike, with insight from the folks at DC Central Kitchen. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The shutdown is pushing federal workers to food banks—just as SNAP is set to expire

"There's absolutely more need, but less food. It's bad."

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@kevinleecaster.bsky.social @dccentralkitchen.bsky.social is sharing what it’s learned about bring affordable fruits and veg to DC corner stores for 14 years, They just published a guide to bring their program to your city to close the grocery gap: dccentralkitchen.org/wp-content/u...