Finding Resources & Information for Your Community Kitchen
Fresh Choice Kitchens Website
http://www.communitykitchens.ca
Fresh Choice Kitchens Bloghttp://communitykitchens.wordpress.com
Tools & Resources to help you:
1. Get Started
2. Get Cooking
3. Add Pizzazz
4. Follow Up & Evaluate
5. Expand your network
1. Get Started
Getting Funding Getting Organized/
Administration Getting Equipment Getting Food Be Safe
Getting Funding
How to find out about Grants
1. Fresh Choice website/blog
Getting Funding cont’d Grant Writing Tips
Tips from online sources listed on our site
Include Statistics Of your community or neighbourhood
(BCStats or Statistics Canada, Vancouver Foundation’s Vital Signs)
Include Evaluations/Followup with your participants (more info later in presentation….)
Books on Grant writing from the Library
Getting Funding cont’d
How to find out about Grants
1. Fresh Choice website/blog
2. Email lists Fresh Choice Kitchens e-list
Other e-lists
Information Updates from the BC Rural Network and Rural Team BCBrandon Hughes, Regional Advisor in the Rural Secretariat, Government of Canada has created an email list with information of funding opportunities. To subscribe: Email Brandon at [email protected]
Listed under British Columbia…
Getting OrganizedCommunity Kitchen Toolkit
Basic Steps Meeting; Guidelines
Staffing Job postings, finding volunteers
Program Manuals/Educator Training Tools Ck Manuals
Administration Sign in sheets; Cleanup sheets Advertising/Recruiting participants
Getting Equipment
Your own equipment drive sample posters in our toolkit
Fresh Choice Kitchens Equipment Room
Thrift stores, auction houses
How to prevent missing equipment
Getting Food letter of support to grocery stores
local food banks Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society - Vancouver,
North Shore, New Westminster and Burnaby Food Banks Canada website for directory of food
banks (http://www.foodbankscanada.ca)
community gardens, fruit tree projects
Bulk purchasing, Good Food Box
Quest Food Exchange Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, North Vancouver,
Richmond, Surrey, the Tri-cities and Maple Ridge.
Be Safe - Food Safety
FOODSAFE.CA Regular courses (BC locations) Online courses Fresh Choice Kitchens (Vancouver; sliding scale)
Contact your local health authority Environmental Health dept
Food Safety Handouts & Websites CK Toolkit
Food Safety Network Toll-free; Website; email questions
Be Safe - Fire and Injury
Fire safety & Fire extinguishers Local fire department for classes
& further info
First Aid Classes via local fire
department, St. John’s Ambulance, school board
Have a First Aid Kit
Tools & Resources to help you:
1. Get Started
2. Get Cooking
2. Get Cooking Participants feedback & input
Cookbooks or cooking magazines your own (e.g. Many Hands) library Internet
101cookbooks.com Epicurious.com Allrecipes.com (adjusts serving sizes) Allows searching by ingredient, dietary
restrictions
2. Get Cooking – cont’d Understanding Allergies/Food Substitutions
Canadian Food Inspection Agency website
Dietitian Services at HealthLink BC Website Ph: 8-1-1
National Organizations: e.g. Canadian Celiac Association
Books/Cookbooks
2. Get Cooking – cont’d
Who buys what Who makes what
Worksheet for dividing responsibilities (shopping, cleaning etc)
Grocery List
COMMUNITY KITCHEN TOOLKIT
Tools & Resources to help you:
1. Get Started
2. Get Cooking
3. Add Pizzazz
3. Add Pizzazz
Handouts nutrition handouts; food labelling, food
safety,
Multilingual information (ESL/New immigrants/Low literacy) pictures of ingredients; handouts in other
languages
Available from our Tools & Resources Database
Add Pizzazz cont’d
Handouts
Save-on-Food Tours
Food Skills for Familes Funded by BC Healthy
Living Alliance - Healthy Eating Strategy
Led by Canadian Diabetes Association
Low income, First
Nations, Punjabi, New Immigrant communities
6 session hands-on cooking class
Add Pizzazz cont’d
Have an Online Presence Post recipes, events e.g. Facebook, Blog
Richmond - Chowtimes.com
Family Services of Greater Vancouver – Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/FSGV-Community-Kitchens/105262542837609
Tools & Resources to help you:
1. Get Started
2. Get Cooking
3. Add Pizzazz
4. Follow Up & Evaluate
4. Follow up and Evaluate
Why?
Evidence of Benefits to Funders & Your Organization
Participants Feedback Help you fine-tune your CK
How? Examples of Evaluation forms in our CK
Toolkit
Tools & Resources to help you:
1. Get Started
2. Get Cooking
3. Add Pizzazz
4. Follow Up & Evaluate
5. Expand your network
5. Expand your Network
Visit other CKs in your area
Talk to CKs with similar target groups
By……
Expand your Network cont’d
Join Email lists Grants Volunteers Courses/Workshops Latest issues
Fresh Choice E-list & Newsletter
E-list Regional specifically geared to
those involved in cooking programs
Sent out usually once-a-week (depending on the announcements)
Newsletter Provincial Theme issues Includes scaled
recipes scaled to accommodate large groups
Sent out bi-monthly (once every other month)
Expand your Network cont’d
Participate in CK Roundtable
Take workshops and courses
Blog
http://communitykitchens.wordpress.com
blog
website
“web log” or Diary
More interactive; More personal
We Need You Tools & Resources
Did your kitchen create a manual or have handouts that you you’d like to share with others?
Do you know of a great website or cookbook that we should list?
Community Kitchen Directory Would you like us to include your kitchen in our directory?
Your Feedback Website, Newsletter
Comment on our Blog
Follow us on Twitter
Be a Fan on Facebook
Thank you Diane Collis, Manager
[email protected] 604-216-2324
Darlene Tanaka, Coordinator [email protected] 604-216-2325
Shona Lam [email protected]