Over 1,000 Turkeys Donated to DC Central Kitchen
We’re so thankful that over 1,000 turkeys and thousands of pounds of sides were donated for this holiday season. We could not do our work without our community of donors. Here is a comprehensive list of our friends who donated holiday food over the past few weeks. We thank everyone that gave to fight hunger in their community.
DC Central Kitchen was open on Thanksgiving to produce thousands of holiday meals for hungry DC residents.
Turkeys:
Ayrshire Farms
- Donated 327 organic turkeys
Butterball
- Donated 200 turkeys
Cuisine Solutions
- Donated 1700 lbs. of turkey breast
Miller, Balis & O’Neil, PC
- Raised $620, which the firm matched bringing total check to $1,240 to purchase 100 turkeys
Federal Schedulers
- Donated $1,000 Costco Gift Card to buy food
Emmanual Brinklow SDA Church
- Donated 46 turkeys
Lockhead Martin
- Donated 60 turkeys
McKean Defense Group
- Donated 40 turkeys
United Praise Youth Choir (Richmond, VA)
- Donated 28 turkeys
UDC Law School
- Donated 25 turkeys
City Year
- Collected and donated 24 Turkeys
Carmine’s DC
- Donated 20 turkeys
FRESHFARM Markets- DuPont Circle
- Collected $ to purchase 14 turkeys
AMYX
- Donated 12 turkeys
American Gas Association
- Donated $180 in Safeway gift cards to purchase 11 turkeys and 100 lbs. of canned goods
Dekatron Corporation
- Donated 10 turkeys
Georgetown Conference Center
- Donated 7 turkeys
Tiffanie Williams
- Donated 6 turkeys
Jamilia Nero
- Individual
- Donated 6 turkeys
Aspen of DC
- Donated 5 turkeys in addition to canned goods and toiletry items
Kiya Badrpay
- Donated 3 turkeys
Justin Lesher
- Donated 2 turkeys
Bill Bates
- Donated 1 Turkey
Patricia Howard
- Donated 1 Turkey
Georgetown Law School Alumni
- Donated 1 Turkey
Total Turkeys: 1,028
Other Food Donations:
DC JCC- Everything But the Turkey
Thanksgiving Meal Prep Volunteers
- 13th annual event with Washington DC Jewish Community Center on Nov, 19th and 21st.
- Volunteers assembled 346 pans of Thanksgiving side dishes: cole slaw, stuffing, sweet potatoes, green beans, stuffing and harvest bean salad
- Volunteers assembled 5,000 snack-bags of trail mix for Healthy Returns
Feast of Sharing- Safeway and The Walter E. Washington Convention Center
- DCCK recovered prepared food from dinner
State Department/Walmart
- State Dept. hosting Taste of Thanksgiving event at the Blair House on Nov. 15th , Foreign Ambassadors are assembling 600 bags of Thanksgiving food items (product donated by Walmart)
FRESHFARM Markets- DuPont Circle
- Held collection at Market which raised $3,091 which we spent at the farmers market purchasing: 14 organic free range Turkeys and 1,356 lbs. of produce
Georgetown Day School
- Donated 250 homemade pies
Beauvoir School
- Donated 300 pumpkin pies
Christ Crossman United Methodist Church (Falls Church)
- Donated 15 homemade pies
Lindsey Vaala
- Donated $480 and Thanksgiving canned goods
National Council of Farmers Co-Op
- Donated Thanksgiving canned goods
Arc Construction
- Donated Thanksgiving canned goods
American University- Psi Sigma Pi Honor Society
- Donated Thanksgiving canned goods
American University- SIS council
- Donated Thanksgiving canned goods
American University- Alpha Kappa Psi
- Donated Thanksgiving canned goods
NY Avenue Pres. Church
- Donated Thanksgiving canned goods
Georgetown Law School
- Donated Thanksgiving canned goods
University of Michigan and Ohio State drive
- Donated Thanksgiving canned goods and First Helping items
Melissa Morrisey (individual)
- Holding neighborhood food drive
New Media Strategies:
- Donated Thanksgiving canned goods
Washington WholeSale
- Donated Thanksgiving canned goods
Temple Sinai DC
- Donated Thanksgiving canned goods
Center for Food Safety:
- Donated Thanksgiving canned goods
