Natalie Alwan Jayroe
Director, Kitchens In National Cooperation

Welcome to Kitchens In National Cooperation

Kitchens In National Cooperation is a community of programs dedicated to using food to improve lives and nourish neighborhoods by making the most meaningful use of every resource available to us.

In 2000, our founder Robert Egger dedicated this site as a "free, open, and deliberate exchange of information."    With this new Web site Kitchens In National Cooperation opens the dialogue to all programs that use food to improve lives.  So whether your program is dedicated to providing meals for senior citizens, or if you grow community gardens, if you are processing and packaging food as a means to increase your distribution, if you operate a Campus Kitchens, or you are  part of the farm-to-schools movement, if you use food as part of your prison ministry, or participate in one of the many, many other ways food is used to promote change, we welcome your participation in our community.

Take a few moments to navigate the site and enjoy the updated features.  We will publish a calendar with graduation dates for our job trainiang programs, and hope to feature a graduate every two weeks.

If you have already registered your program, take a minute to look over your information and email your changes to me.  If you haven't yet registered, please take the opportunity to do so.  You will gain the full benefits of the community, including chat sessions, the publishing of your successes, opportunities to share information with colleagues that could save you time and money, links to funding opportunities and important news for the nonprofit sector.

Less duplication and more efficiency is what the public expects of the nonprofit sector in the future.  We believe we can be effective without creating an expensive bureaucracy and thereby ensure that our community remains responsive to those we serve.  Join with us while we share our creativity, our ideas, our passion, and the joy of our missions.

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