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 brandon.hughes@telus.net

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

cooking@foodbank.bc.ca 604-216-2324

Darlene Tanaka, Coordinator darlenet@foodbank.bc.ca 604-216-2325

Shona Lam shonal@foodbank.bc.ca