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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

@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...

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...

@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...

@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...

The challenges facing DC right now are complex. But our charge is clear: provide more food and more jobs, right now. Your support puts good food in our neighbors’ homes and prepares DC residents for stable careers. You’re fueling what works. dccentralkitchen.org/donate/

DC Central Kitchen is in the business of nourishing people who need food and training people who need jobs. That’s just what our city needs right now! Today, all donations are being matched 100%! dccentralkitchen.org/donate #hungerfighters

All federal workers and contractors impacted by the shutdown are invited to visit any DC Central Kitchen Cafe location for a 50% discount on any order up to $25. We would be glad to welcome you!

During the worst of COVID, @dccentralkitchen.bsky.social and DC Food Project teamed up to fight childhood hunger in DC. The partnership has grown to include dozens of school-based food pantries and provide nearly 5 million meals! Learn more: dccentralkitchen.org/2025/09/23/5...

DC Food Project is on track to provide its 5 millionth meal (!) this school year. The connection and collaboration of DCFP and DC Central Kitchen exemplifies the power of doing more together. Learn more about our 5-year partnership with this nonprofit on our blog dccentralkitchen.org/2025/09/23/5...

Get your tickets now for Capital Food Fight 2025! #CFF2025 capitalfoodfight.org

@dcck.bsky.social works with corner stores to bring healthy food where it’s needed most in DC. They just pulled off their most ambitious corner store project, installing a full-scale produce department at a store in a section of the city with just one supermarket dccentralkitchen.org/2025/09/15/h...

Thanks to Tyson Foods, CoBank, Instacart, Lineage Foundation For Good, Wegmans, Elevance Health, DoorDash, Keany Produce & Gourmet, Meat & Livestock Australia, and all our Capital Food Fight sponsors for supporting our work against hunger & poverty! Join the fight! capitalfoodfight.org/sponsors/

Our Culinary students, interns & staff were thrilled to welcome Chef Marcus Samuelsson to the Klein Center for Jobs & Justice today as he joined Chef Spike Mendelsohn in the media studio for their #IntheWeeds podcast interview. We can't wait to tune in! #hungerfighters

Need a little inspiration? @dcck.bsky.social recently celebrated the graduation of 3 Culinary Job Training classes at once. Watch how the last 14 weeks has prepared them for their new careers! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGTK...

DC Central Kitchen's Capital Food Fight returns to The Anthem November 6! We’re thrilled to announce Tyson Foods as this year's presenting sponsor! #CFF2025

Since 2022 @dccentralkitchen.bsky.social has teamed with DC’s Department of Aging and Community Living and DoorDash to bring healthy, nutritious, scratch-cooked meals directly to food insecure seniors and veterans. Learn how this partnership is feeding more vets: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFGu...

The first half of 2025 brought uncertainty to DC, but the results of @dccentralkitchen.bsky.social are perfectly clear. More home-delivered meals for DC veterans, more locally sourced meals for students, more job training opportunities, and no days off.... dccentralkitchen.org/2025/07/02/2...

@dcck.bsky.social is providing alternatives for DC youth—and people like Terrence are proof of what’s possible. Learn how this DCCK Culinary Job Training grad overcame a life-threatening shooting to complete the program, launch a career + become a force for good dccentralkitchen.org/2025/06/02/a...

In addition to providing fresh fruits and vegetables to schools, corner stores, and partner nonprofits, ‪@dccentralkitchen.bsky.social‬ also supports local farmers in all seasons! Learn more about these win-win partnerships and join DCCK's Produce Push!  www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsgs...

Let’s help the folks at DC Central Kitchen bring fresh produce to 30,000 people in need while helping out small farmers at the same time. Starting today, all donations to their Produce Push campaign will be doubled, up to $100,000! dccentralkitchen.org/2025/05/22/j...

Fresh off serving 100,000 home-delivered meals to DC seniors, DC Central Kitchen announced a new home-delivery program for food insecure veterans in our nation’s capital today. Watch the story from ABC7: wjla.com/news/local/d...

Looking for a volunteer opportunity? Looking for a place to donate? Just want to cheer on some great folks? Then send your congrats to the newest graduates at @dccentralkitchen.bsky.social thehillishome.com/2025/04/cong... 💓

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’" — Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Team OAG celebrated April as National Volunteer Month with shifts at the amazing DC Central Kitchen (@dccentralkitchen.bsky.social). Thank you for having us and for all you do for DC!

The @dccentralkitchen.bsky.social Culinary Job Training program graduations are some of the best days of the year. @wtopnews.bsky.social captured the power of the 14 week program and its value to both graduates and the community. wtop.com/dc/2025/04/l...

19 years ago, Chef Justin graduated from the @dccentralkitchen.bsky.social Culinary Job Training program. Today, he’s paying that opportunity forward teaching knife skills and life skills to others. See his journey in this powerful new video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=imS9...

3.9 million meals provided throughout DC. 131 individuals trained via our Culinary Job Training program with an 91% job placement rate. 30 schools serving our healthy, scratch cooked meals! 35 years of serving our city. Read our 2024 Annual Report to see the results. dccentralkitchen.org/impact24/

Thanks to CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield for investing in the multi-year growth of our healthy food access programs for kids, seniors, and corner store shoppers in DC.

Thanks to everyone who came out for our 3rd Annual DC Central Kitchen Cafe Day. Special thanks to Monumental Sports & Entertainment for their long-time support of our mission, and Emma's Torch, GreenIsland Bakery, and Sunflower Bakery for helping us celebrate social enterprises in our community!