Community Kitchen fights hunger through these programs:

 

1515 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 and snacks to at-risk children and youth in after-school programs. Meals include a sandwich, fruit or vegetable and milk or juice. We provide these meals & snacks to children at all three  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 2,000 of these each week.

 

Backpack Buddies

We provide backpacks of weekend food to selected low-income children at six 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, Clear Creek and Edgewood Elementary Schools. We have approximately 100 children enrolled in this program.

 

Summer Breakfast Program

While school is out in the summer, we know that the over 35% of MCCSC school children (approx 4,100 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 ten 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,  Heatherwood Trailer Park, along with School View Apartments and Lenzy Hayes Mobile Home Park in Ellettsville. We provided over 13,500 breakfasts through this program  in the summer of 2010.

 

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.