Programs

2009 Meal Counts (through November)           

Rogers Street CK                              58,784                                 

CK Express                                         40,758 

Feed Our Future                              45,350

Backpack Buddies                          11,010

Summer Breakfast                          11,985

Nutrition Links                                    1,370

 Total meals                                169,257 (21% increase over 2008)

Community Kitchen fights hunger through these programs:

917 S Rogers Street sit down meals
Community Kitchen serves dinner from 4-6pm, Monday - Saturday all year long, with no questions asked. These meals consist of a main entree, a vegetarian option, side vegetable, salad, fruit, desserts and beverages. In addition, cold carryout meals are available. We do an average of 200 of these each day.

Community Kitchen Express
Community Kitchen provides both warm and cold carryout meals from our second location at 1100 W 11th St from 4-6pm, Monday - Saturday, no questions asked. These meals consist of a main entree, side item and fruit, with milk served as a beverage. We do an average of 128 of these each day.

Feed Our Future
Through the FOF Program, we provide sack lunch type meals to at-risk children and youth in after-school programs. These meals include a sandwich, fruit or vegetable and milk or juice. We provide these to children at both Boys & Girls Clubs, Girls Inc., Broadview Teen Learning Center, The Childcare program at Middle Way's The Rise, and Rhino's Youth Center. We provide approximately 633 of these each week.

Backpack Buddies
We provide backpacks of weekend food to selected low-income children at four local elementary schools. Children receive the backpack of food on Friday afternoon to help their families with the weekend food needs. We are currently providing this service at Fairview, Summit, Arlington, Grandview and Clear Creek Elementary Schools. We do 90-100 of these each school week.

Summer Breakfast Program
While school is out in the summer, we know that the approximately 30% of MCCSC school children who receive free or reduced meals at school, are likely at a nutritional disadvantage. We provide a free, nutritious sack breakfast including grain, fruit and dairy components each Monday - Friday to children in eight low-income neighborhoods. This program operates while school is closed for the summer and serves children in Countryview, Walnut Woods, Henderson Court, Crestmont, Arlington Valley Trailer Court, Arlington Heights, Orchard Glen and Heatherwood Trailer Park. We provide an average of 12,000 breakfasts through this program each summer.

Nutrition Links
Through this program, two carryout meals per day are delivered by volunteers, free of charge, to selected local HIV+ patients. To provide this service we partner with Bloomington Hospital's Positive Link. They do the case management, identify those who need the program and coordinate delivery volunteers.