Resources
Grants from Kelly’s Kitchen
If your organization is interested in creating a food bank, maintaining an existing food bank, or is actively involved in healthy feeding efforts to your community we want to support you!
Please reach out to us here. Let us know about your work and your needs. We are standing by to support.
Kelly’s Kitchen Accountability Classes
Our hands-on instructional classes and accountability groups will give disadvantaged parents and community leaders and influencers the knowledge to provide healthy meals to their families and encourage healthy eating in their communities.
Kelly’s Kitchen Accountability Classes will guide participants through various cooking exercises to make the best use of ingredients to produce nutritious home-cooked meals.
Interactive cooking lessons
Grocery shopping techniques
Fruits, Veggies, and raw food preparation
Weekly meal planning
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These resources include "how to" videos on different accessible kitchen resources, as well as other helpful links.
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Challenges:
Maintaining Volunteers
Delivery of food
Inaccessible Food Pantries (churches)
Sourcing food from suppliers
Communication with food suppliers
Expired, freezer burned, bad food
Best Practices:
Pre-bagging food
Gather information from clients when making delivery/contact (medical supplies, social health)
Update referral lists regularly
Start a “Victory Garden”
Coordinate with local Aging organization who may be able to waive meals on wheels requirements
Connect with Housing Authorities
School service groups may have volunteers
Use volunteers to make phone calls or other ways to maintain distance
No contact delivery vehicle loading and delivery
Anonymous food drop-offs
General Tips for Starting Operations:
Designate a Food Justice Advisor to manage all things food bank related. This person should maintain a certain supply level based on various factors like population size and specific needs of the area.
Designate a closet, room, or area for donated foods. Create accessible signage so people can find it easily. If you have space, incorporate a quick drop donation table so people can drop off and pick up donations.
Have the capability to receive donations at a particular time and/or place. Make this known to the public. Donations will manifest in a variety of ways. Unopened surplus food, food drives, snack and dinner programs, monetary, etc. Determine what you are willing to take and what you won’t accept.
Log donations, track items, get information from individuals. Have participants fill out information forms so you know who is coming and going. Track inventories over time to determine your area-specific needs.
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Check out resources in this section that have to do with disordered eating within the disability community.
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These resources provided information and education on legislation that has to do with food access and food equity across the United States.
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These resources provide information and education on food justice organizations around the US that do not intentionally intersect with another at-risk population.
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These resources provided information and education on the intersection of food justice issues among members of the disability community.
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Resources in this section specifically highlight organizations and efforts run and led by people who identify as part of th LGBTQIA+ community and are working to address inequities within food justice.
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Resources and organizations in this section address the intersection of food justice and racial justice.
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In this section you will find recipes that have been put together for the Nourishment Beyond the Plate program through Kelly's Kitchen.
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Check out some recipes we have shared that can NOT be found in the blog section of our website!
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Resources in this section will provide you with information about how to start a home or community garden and best practices for success.
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This section includes information or recipes that assist people who follow a vegan lifestyle with finding additional options.
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Great resources to check out pertaining to the food justice movement that don't fit neatly into a specified category.