DC Central Kitchen

[Karla Morrison]

Hello team-

I hope your week has started off great.

Capital Cause's Deputy Membership Director reached out to DC Central Kitchen to invite them to Wednesday's event and received this response.  I do not know if this is the same contact you have Jennifer.  Please see below.

Karla Morrison
Deputy Cause Administrator, Capital Cause, Inc.
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From: Katherine Eklund <kek...@dccentralkitchen.org>
Date: Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 1:05 PM
Subject: Special Invite: The Young Philanthropist Spring Soiree | 04.24.13
To: "jeffrey...@gmail.com" <jeffrey...@gmail.com>

Hello Jeff,

 

Thanks for sharing this information. We’ve passed it along to a few people internally who may be interested in joining.

 

Also, I took a look at your website and was interested to find your Food Deserts Project. DC Central Kitchen has a Healthy Corners Program that is delivering fresh produce and snacks to about 30 corner stores in food deserts in DC. On top of distributing items, we work with stores to do nutrition outreach, cooking demonstrations, marketing support, and technical assistance. We’re also connecting it to our healthy school meals program and the meal distribution we do to partner agencies throughout DC. If you’re ever interested in working with us on any of your projects, I’d be happy to get that started. There could definitely be opportunities for special events, fundraisers, and research-oriented projects. The information about Healthy Corners is here: http://www.dccentralkitchen.org/healthycorners/

 

Thanks!

Katherine

 

Katherine Eklund

Executive and Research Assistant

DC Central Kitchen

kek...@dccentralkitchen.org

202-234-0707 x145

 

 

[Chasity Cooper]

That's great to know -- thanks so much for passing this information along Karla! :) 

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Best,

 

Chasity Cooper
Syracuse University, '11

C: 847-346-9835

E: chasity...@gmail.com

Connect with me on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cscooper011

"Do what you love, give it back in the form of service, and you will do more than succeed.' - Oprah Winfrey

[Jennifer Spence]

Hi Karla,

 

I spoke with Lindsay Palmer at DC Central Kitchen.  She’s the Director of Nutrition and Community Outreach.  She is the program manager for the healthy corners program and the truck farm.  She told me about Strawberries and Salad Greens Day on May 29, which is a DC Greens event.  I emailed the farm to schools coordinator for DC Greens this morning about working on Strawberries and Salad Greens Day with them.  I’ll keep everyone posted once I hear back.

 

Thanks,

Jen 

 

Jennifer Spence

jens...@post.harvard.edu

(C) 917-355-1673

[Karla Morrison]

Thanks Jennifer!

Karla Morrison
Deputy Cause Administrator, Capital Cause, Inc.
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[Chasity Cooper]

Hi Everyone!

So I just finished  meeting with the Higher Achievement Ward 7 Center Director and she thinks that while the idea of educating the students on healthy foods is great, we need to be a little bit more concrete with what we are trying to accomplish. 

Do we know what the "Strawberries and Field Greens" event will look like? What will be required of us? Once we figure that out, Rachel (the Center Director) said she'd be more than happy to put us in contact with the Vice Principal or grade-level science teachers. 

Also, Rachel mentioned to me that City Year is hosting an block party event with Kelly Miller students on May 18th in which City Year members and KM students are wanting to incorporate a healthy eating component to. If we are interested in joining that initiative, they would be happy to provide us with a table in which we can promote our cause/initiative. 

Let me know your thoughts, and we can continue to move forward. 

Thanks!

Chasity 

[Jennifer Spence]

Hi Chasity and team,

On Strawberries and Salad Greens day, all DC public schools are having farm fresh strawberries and salad greens in their school lunches.  Some schools and vendors are also running activity tables.  We can check with DC Central kitchen to see if they are running a table at Kelly Miller.  I believe they are not.  If not Erica Steinhardt can provide us with posters and talking points with which to staff an activity table.

If we aren't ourselves staffing the table, we need to let the school know.  There is a DCPS volunteer policy we need to abide by.

We also would need to coordinate and get the ok of Kelly miller school that we are doing this.  Erica suggested talking to the principal.  Vice principal should be fine.

Some charter schools are also participating.

Jen

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[Chasity Cooper]

So it would basically be an information sharing type event? Would this take place during the day or after school?

I'm just wanting to make sure that we would have maximum exposure to the KM students. 

Thanks so much! 

[Jennifer Spence]

Hi Chasity and team,

 

Hope all is well.  I heard back from Erica Steinhardt about the schedule for the activity tables:

Activity tables are probably a commitment from around 10:30 am – 2:00 pm, but it will depend on the lunch schedule of the specific school.

 

Jen

 

Jennifer Spence

jens...@post.harvard.edu

(C) 917-355-1673

 

 

Karla Morrison

Deputy Cause Administrator, Capital Cause, Inc.
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On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Jennifer Spence <spence.l...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Karla,

 

I spoke with Lindsay Palmer at DC Central Kitchen.  She’s the Director of Nutrition and Community Outreach.  She is the program manager for the healthy corners program and the truck farm.  She told me about Strawberries and Salad Greens Day on May 29, which is a DC Greens event.  I emailed the farm to schools coordinator for DC Greens this morning about working on Strawberries and Salad Greens Day with them.  I’ll keep everyone posted once I hear back.

 

Thanks,

Jen 

 

Jennifer Spence

jens...@post.harvard.edu

(C) 917-355-1673

 

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Subject: DC Central Kitchen

Hello team-

I hope your week has started off great.

Capital Cause's Deputy Membership Director reached out to DC Central Kitchen to invite them to Wednesday's event and received this response.  I do not know if this is the same contact you have Jennifer.  Please see below.

 

Karla Morrison

[Jennifer Spence]

Hi team,

 

Here’s a link about DC Public Schools volunteer policy:

http://dc.gov/DCPS/Parents+and+Community/Volunteer+in+Our+Schools

 

From reading it, it looks like our event would be a one day service event and volunteers for the activity table would not need to pass the clearance process (i.e. TB test, application, and fingerprints).  Probably should confirm this when we talk with Kelly Miller MS.

 

Best,

Jen

 

Jennifer Spence

jens...@post.harvard.edu

(C) 917-355-1673

 

[Jennifer Spence]

Hi team,

 

I confirmed with DC Central Kitchen’s Katie Nash that DC Central Kitchen is not running an activity table at Kelly Miller MS, so there would be no overlap with us.  They will be staffing activity tables at 1-2 schools, so our help would be welcome at an additional school. 

 

Currently Katie’s idea for a DC Central Kitchen activity table is to do a food cooking demo utilizing strawberries and salad greens in a different way from how it is being prepared for the school lunches that day.  She welcomes other ideas from us and can provide us input on how popular the table would be with the students.  Last year, there was a table at Walker Jones where the volunteers brought stickers, strawberry plants, and a diagram of how strawberry plants grow.  That was well liked.  We are free to come up with our own idea on what to do with the activity table. 

 

Chasity – these are good examples to use when you talk to the Center Director and Vice Principal of Kelly Miller about the activity table.

[Chasity Cooper]

Great! Thanks so much  for that update! I've reached out to Rachel and I hope to speak with her today about the event.

Thanks everyone for your hard work on this!

 

Chasity

[Jennifer Spence]

Hi Chasity,

 

Did you talk with the Center Director yesterday?  I’m guessing that’s who Rachel is.

 

If you can’t get Rachel’s help in setting up the meeting with a  Vice Principal at Kelly Miller this week, can you just ask Rachel for the Vice Principal’s email address?  We can write a description of our proposal and send it to him/her and then request a meeting if necessary.  It would probably be easier to just get an email address and then we can provide all the details in the email.  We can include Rachel’s name in the email too.    

 

I can also try emailing the principal directly.  Let me know by tomorrow if you can get the Vice Principal’s email address or I will just email the Principal directly. 

 

Thanks,

Jen

 

 

Jennifer Spence

jens...@post.harvard.edu

(C) 917-355-1673

 

[Chasity Cooper]

Good morning all: 

Just a quick update -- I have shared the below letter with the Ward 7 Center Director which she will be passing along to the vice principals at Kelly Miller. I will be sure to contact you all as soon as I have heard a response. 

Good Afternoon!

 

I hope that this message finds you well. My name is Chasity Cooper and I am a volunteer member of  Capital Cause, a non-profit organization that enables young philanthropists to maximize their financial and skills-based contributions through collective giving. My particular working group (Food A.S.A.P.) was charged with reducing food deserts in Ward 7, with the result of 500 residents gaining access to healthy food options. In attempt to begin achieving this goal, we have teamed up with DC Central Kitchen and their annual event“Strawberries and Field Greens” that will take place on May 29^th, 2013. On this day, all DC public schools will have farm fresh strawberries and salad greens in their school lunches.

 

With that said, we would like to request permission to host an activity table during the lunch periods of all Kelly Miller students that would include food demonstrations and sharing information with students about promote an interest in incorporating fresh produce in one’s diet and promote healthy eating. Capital Cause could provide the volunteers to staff the table and any necessary props, posters, and talking points.

 

Does this sound like an initiative that Kelly Miller would be interested in participating in? I am more than happy to provide you with more information about the event as well as Capital Cause upon your request.

 

Thanks so much, and I look forward to your timely response.

[Jennifer Spence]

Thanks Chasity!