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DC Central Kitchen uses leftover food and local produce to fight hunger, improve public health, and put people back to work. Feeding the soul of Washington, DC since 1989, we now deliver 6,000 balanced meals every day to homeless shelters, afterschool programs, and other nonprofits, saving them millions of dollars in food costs annually. Essential to our meal production is the hard work of men and women enrolled in our acclaimed Culinary Job Training program. To date, this initiative has equipped more than 900 unemployed adults with histories of addiction, incarceration, and homelessness for new careers. Since the recession hit in 2008, these remarkable individuals have maintained a job placement rate above 90%. Our programs are funded in part by generous donors, including the Walmart Foundation, with which we have proudly partnered since 2008. But unlike a traditional charity, we also work to sustain ourselves through social enterprise. We generate revenue and advance our mission by supplying fresh produce to corner stores in low-income neighborhoods, serving healthy, scratch-cooked meals in public schools, and providing gourmet catering; each of these programs employ our culinary graduates at living wages. We are a nonprofit in the business of changing lives.

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