Community Kitchen

The new Dare to Care Community Kitchen in partnership with Lift a Life Novak Family Foundation is home to innovative, targeted programs designed to overcome the barriers affecting hunger relief in our community. The facility is a 24,000 square foot former grocery store in the Parkland neighborhood and works in conjunction with the Main Distribution Center on Fern Valley Road.

This immense increase in capacity will allow us to implement new solutions to hunger, including:

• More hot, nutritious, after-school meals, increasing current production by 50% to 1,800 meals for children every weekday.
• More robust summer meals for children—at a savings of more than $100,000 over our current model.
• Congregate meals for seniors to address an identified current need of 2,000 meals daily and helping to address social isolation among this growing population.
• Culinary skills job training in collaboration with Catholic Charities’ Common Table program, allowing it to expand and providing our kitchen with skilled, free labor.
• A mobile retail market offering fresh and fresh frozen foods in food desert neighborhoods.
• Build a platform for future growth and innovation to respond to community needs related to hunger