At this moment, our work to create economic opportunity for women facing economic insecurity has taken on a new sense of relevance and urgency, but our resources remain the same. Your gift will provide paid professional culinary training to women in New York City, and help us place 100% of graduates in full-time living wage jobs with access to benefits.
Here are some of the ways your gift can empower women from as far as Ethiopia and as close as East Harlem to launch new culinary careers:
>A $1,000 donation provides a trainee with four weeks of fundamentals training covering culinary, academic and professional hard and soft skills training to prepare her for apprenticeship placement.
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A $500 donation provides a trainee facing difficult life circumstances of direct integrated care coordination service supports to help them navigate challenges such as childcare, sable housing, food insecurity and trauma from domestic violence.
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A $250 donation goes towards Metrocards for women to use for their first month on the job.
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A $100 donation purchase materials and supplies to support a trainee’s culinary math lessons including basic computation, scaling recipes, units of measure.
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Can support a myriad of resources, such as kitchen tools for our culinary training program and our alumni association for graduates and more.
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We are proud to highlight our partners’ dedication to helping motivated individuals transcend barriers to fair wage employment by professionalizing their skills in the culinary arts.
Consolidated Edison
Hyde and Watson Foundation
Investopedia
Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund
MUFG Foundation
NYC Department of Small Business Services
The Price Family Foundation Inc.
Robert & Toni Bader Charitable Foundation
Santander Bank
Starry Night Fund
Terrace Fund
Windhover Foundation
Zegar Family Foundation
In-Kind Supporters:
Brooklyn Slate
Canada Goose
King Arthur Flour
KitchenAid USA