After completing Hot Bread Kitchen’s Culinary Training Program, Shruti was able to secure a stable job for the first time since immigrating from India.
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Celebrate Immigrant Heritage Month by breaking bread
June is Immigrant Heritage Month in the United States, a time to reflect on our country’s diverse cultural heritage and to celebrate the legacy of immigrants who have shaped our history. When Hot Bread Kitchen started, we aimed to do a version of this every day—with bread. When we first began as a social enterprise […]
Expanding the Definition of Job Quality at Colson Patisserie
Since opening as a retail shop in Park Slope in 2006, Colson Patisserie has grown into a formidable Brooklyn wholesale operation while retaining its heart and staying true to the company’s history. A Hot Bread Kitchen hiring partner and member of our inaugural Quality Jobs Initiative (QJI), Colson has hired women from our culinary training […]
Honoring Women’s Agency
When it comes to choices about how to live, or which opportunities to take in order to support our families, we should each have the agency and ability to decide for ourselves.
Katie Peabody is one of City & State’s 2022 Nonprofit 40 Under 40
In the 2022 Nonprofit 40 Under 40 list, City & State showcases a group of young, diverse leaders in the nonprofit world who are making a difference in New York. These rising stars – all under the age of 40 – bring passion and professionalism to their work providing everything from health care services to […]
Working women are making history–but it takes more than a job to do it
A message from Hot Bread Kitchen’s CEO Leslie Abbey in honor of International Women’s Day Despite March’s focus on “history,” Women’s History Month is usually forward-looking at Hot Bread Kitchen. This year, we are focused on the present. Current events, including the invasion of Ukraine and continued anti-Asian hate crimes in our own city, have […]
