One of the amazing programs offered at the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf is their Community Kitchen Academy, which offers unemployed or underemployed Vermonts the opportunity to learn vital kitchen and cooking skills that help them to obtain sustainable careers in the food service industry. Learn more about the Kitchen Academy via CEFS below:
"Each 13-week session of Community Kitchen Academy contains 10-12 students. To prepare these students with the culinary skills necessary to secure jobs in the food service industry, the professional Chef Instructor, James Consentino, delivers a proven curriculum that was developed by the Rhode Island Community Food Bank.
Students learn about safe kitchen practices—including safe knife handling, preventing cuts, burns, and handling accidents and fires, and managing food allergies—and a variety of skills such as knife sharpening, knife and equipment identification, food safety practices, various cooking methods, food receiving and storage, and the preparation of nutritious recipes and appropriate portion sizes.
Students will also undergo ServSafe training—a nationally recognized certification program essential to safety in food production and storage. In addition to ServSafe certification, Community Kitchen Academy is an accredited program that allows students to earn nine college-level credits upon completion.
The combination of this specialized culinary skills training and the work readiness training provided through the integrated life skills program ensure that upon graduation, students will be certified professionals who are ready and qualified to gain employment in the food service industry.
In addition to job training, Community Kitchen Academy performs another function, rescuing produce, meat and other foods that would otherwise be wasted from restaurants, farms and food service companies. Students work with instructors to cook the food and produce meals that are then cryovac sealed and sent out through the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf Soup Kitchen and Food Shelf.
For more information about Community Kitchen Academy or to request a paper copy of an application, please contact James Consentino at jconsentino@cvoeo.org."
All information and images via CEFS
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Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Friday, December 19, 2014
Holiday Shopping on Amazon? Here's Another Way to Share the Love!
If you, like many holiday shoppers, are doing some (or all!) of your holiday shopping on Amazon this year, consider checking our their AmazonSmile site. AmazonSmile has the same products, prices, shipping, everything you're accustomed to on Amazon, but they donate 0.5% of the price to the charitable organization of your choice.
The best part? The Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO) is on the list, and they are located right here in Burlington, Vermont. As you may know, we've teamed up with the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf (CEFS) for our annual Share the Love event this year, and CEFS is a program within CVOEO, so we love the AmazonSmile option even more!
A donation of 0.5% may sound like a small amount, but think of how many products are purchased on Amazon, especially during the holiday season! So if you're shopping on Amazon this year, take a look at AmazonSmile. And swing by our website to see how we plan to raise $40,000 this year for the Chitttenden Emergency Food Shelf here.
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A donation of 0.5% may sound like a small amount, but think of how many products are purchased on Amazon, especially during the holiday season! So if you're shopping on Amazon this year, take a look at AmazonSmile. And swing by our website to see how we plan to raise $40,000 this year for the Chitttenden Emergency Food Shelf here.
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Friday, December 12, 2014
More Ways to Help? Food Drives for the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf
So far we have raised $14,775 for the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf (CEFS) as part of our annual Share the Love event! Help us reach our goal of $40,000 before January 2, 2015.
Looking for another way to help out the Food Shelf? Try holding a food drive! If you're interested in doing so, CEFS has a downloadable guide on holding successful food drives that comes with signs and a list of ideal items as well.
CEFS asks that you please bring all food donations to the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf warehouse in the back of the building, and that you should feel free to contact them at (802) 658-7939 for more information.
Not sure how to hold a food drive? Check out CEFS' Food and Fund Drive Tool Kit for loads of information on how to hold your event; and please make sure to fill out the Food and Fund Drive Registration Form to let them know that you're hosting one.
All info and image via CEFS
Looking for another way to help out the Food Shelf? Try holding a food drive! If you're interested in doing so, CEFS has a downloadable guide on holding successful food drives that comes with signs and a list of ideal items as well.
CEFS asks that you please bring all food donations to the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf warehouse in the back of the building, and that you should feel free to contact them at (802) 658-7939 for more information.
Not sure how to hold a food drive? Check out CEFS' Food and Fund Drive Tool Kit for loads of information on how to hold your event; and please make sure to fill out the Food and Fund Drive Registration Form to let them know that you're hosting one.
All info and image via CEFS
Monday, December 8, 2014
2015 Subaru Impreza Earns an IIHS TOP SAFETY PICK+ Accolade
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has awarded the 2015 Subaru Impreza with an IIHS TOP SAFETY PICK accolade, which becomes a TOP SAFETY PICK+ honor when equipped with the optional EyeSight Driver Assist Technology.
The 2015 Impreza earned the highest rating given out by the IIHS, including a 'Superior' rating in the front crash avoidance testing. Seven Subaru models have now achieved the honor; the Legacy, Outback, Forester, BRZ, WRX/STI and XV Crosstrek all have 2014 TOP SAFETY PICK accolades, four of which have earned a TOP SAFETY PICK+.
Subaru has more 2014 IIHS TOP SAFETY PICK awards than any other manufacturer, showing exemplary safety measures worthy of the brand. Be sure to take a look at our 2015 Impreza inventory, or our other award-winning new Subaru models here!
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The 2015 Impreza earned the highest rating given out by the IIHS, including a 'Superior' rating in the front crash avoidance testing. Seven Subaru models have now achieved the honor; the Legacy, Outback, Forester, BRZ, WRX/STI and XV Crosstrek all have 2014 TOP SAFETY PICK accolades, four of which have earned a TOP SAFETY PICK+.
Subaru has more 2014 IIHS TOP SAFETY PICK awards than any other manufacturer, showing exemplary safety measures worthy of the brand. Be sure to take a look at our 2015 Impreza inventory, or our other award-winning new Subaru models here!
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Thursday, December 4, 2014
Not Just a Food Shelf: Other Services Provided by the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf
The Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf is more than just a food shelf; they provide a wide array of programs and services to Vermonters in need. If you haven't heard already, our goal is to raise $40,000 for CEFS before January 2, 2015 -- learn more about how we plan to do so on our Share the Love page here, and read more about all of the other programs CEFS has to offer via CEFS below!
"The Food Shelf provides critical nutrition assistance to Vermonters who struggle with food insecurity. This population includes our community’s most vulnerable populations: children, seniors, people with disabilities, New Americans and people who are homeless.
Grocery Distribution Program
o Provides a five-day supply of groceries to approximately 2,600 households each month. This program also provides the households we serve with a supply of fresh produce and bread every day, Monday through Friday.
Hot Meals
o The Food Shelf operates the largest hot meal service in Chittenden County which provides fresh-cooked, buffet-style meals to our guests six days per week. Serves nearly 5,000 meals each month to a population consisting primarily of people who are homeless or marginally housed.
Homebound Grocery Delivery Program
o Food Shelf staff and volunteers deliver a five-day supply of groceries to approximately 130 homebound clients. This program provides seniors and people with disabilities with fresh and perishable groceries and a visit from a friendly volunteer or Food Shelf staff member.
Summertime Brown Bag Lunch Program
o Serves children from low-income families during school vacation. The children served through this program receive free lunch and other school-based food assistance during the school year, but they rely on our Brown Bag Program to bridge the summer nutrition gap.
Community Kitchen Academy
o To fulfill our mission of cultivating opportunities for people living in poverty, the Food Shelf is in its fifth year partnering with the Vermont Foodbank to operate Community Kitchen Academy (CKA). CKA is designed to address two critical needs: providing low-income Vermonters with professional culinary job training and job placement support with the goal of helping them achieve economic self-sufficiency, and providing high-quality, nutritious meals at no cost to food-insecure Vermonters.
The Food Shelf also works hard to serve Chittenden County’s large and growing population of recent immigrants and refugees (or New Americans). The Food Shelf’s Grocery Distribution Coordinator provides translation services to assist our non-English speaking clients in navigating the Food Shelf’s services. This staff member provides outreach and assistance in applying for programs like 3SquaresVT and in providing referrals to other community services, as well. Currently, the Food Shelf’s translator is fluent in five languages including English, French and three African dialects. As part of our broader outreach services, all households receiving assistance from the Food Shelf are screened for eligibility for federal nutrition assistance programs and VT Health Connect. The Food Shelf also provides Commodity Supplemental Food Program grocery boxes to eligible seniors each month.
During the past year, the Food Shelf served more than 11,000 Vermonters through these programs."
All information via CEFS
"The Food Shelf provides critical nutrition assistance to Vermonters who struggle with food insecurity. This population includes our community’s most vulnerable populations: children, seniors, people with disabilities, New Americans and people who are homeless.
Grocery Distribution Program
o Provides a five-day supply of groceries to approximately 2,600 households each month. This program also provides the households we serve with a supply of fresh produce and bread every day, Monday through Friday.
Hot Meals
o The Food Shelf operates the largest hot meal service in Chittenden County which provides fresh-cooked, buffet-style meals to our guests six days per week. Serves nearly 5,000 meals each month to a population consisting primarily of people who are homeless or marginally housed.
Homebound Grocery Delivery Program
o Food Shelf staff and volunteers deliver a five-day supply of groceries to approximately 130 homebound clients. This program provides seniors and people with disabilities with fresh and perishable groceries and a visit from a friendly volunteer or Food Shelf staff member.
Summertime Brown Bag Lunch Program
o Serves children from low-income families during school vacation. The children served through this program receive free lunch and other school-based food assistance during the school year, but they rely on our Brown Bag Program to bridge the summer nutrition gap.
Community Kitchen Academy
o To fulfill our mission of cultivating opportunities for people living in poverty, the Food Shelf is in its fifth year partnering with the Vermont Foodbank to operate Community Kitchen Academy (CKA). CKA is designed to address two critical needs: providing low-income Vermonters with professional culinary job training and job placement support with the goal of helping them achieve economic self-sufficiency, and providing high-quality, nutritious meals at no cost to food-insecure Vermonters.
The Food Shelf also works hard to serve Chittenden County’s large and growing population of recent immigrants and refugees (or New Americans). The Food Shelf’s Grocery Distribution Coordinator provides translation services to assist our non-English speaking clients in navigating the Food Shelf’s services. This staff member provides outreach and assistance in applying for programs like 3SquaresVT and in providing referrals to other community services, as well. Currently, the Food Shelf’s translator is fluent in five languages including English, French and three African dialects. As part of our broader outreach services, all households receiving assistance from the Food Shelf are screened for eligibility for federal nutrition assistance programs and VT Health Connect. The Food Shelf also provides Commodity Supplemental Food Program grocery boxes to eligible seniors each month.
During the past year, the Food Shelf served more than 11,000 Vermonters through these programs."
All information via CEFS
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