Through Education, Skill Building, and Advocacy
Cooking for Health at CAFB
CAFB offers cooking demonstrations for member agencies when they come to pick up their food orders. Using ingredients commonly available through the food bank, we provide agencies with recipes, healthy cooking tips, and meal planning suggestions that agencies can pass on to clients. For more information please email cooking@capitalareafoodbank.org
Cooking for Health in the Community
Volunteers and trained CAFB Health Ambassadors provide cooking demonstrations at food pantries, community centers, farmer’s markets, schools, and other locations in the community. Cooking demonstrations teach clients and the general community how to use our ingredients in healthy and economical ways. For more information please email cooking@capitalareafoodbank.org
D.C. Farm to School Network
This grassroots initiative is a coalition of advocates working to incorporate more local foods and food education into District of Columbia public, charter and private schools. It is housed at the food bank and demonstrates CAFB’s commitment to improve the health of children, the environment, and our local farm economy. For more information please our The D.C. Farm to School Network webpage or email andrea@dcfarmtoschool.org
Face Hunger™
Face Hunger™ workshops engage participants in role-playing activities that increase awareness and understanding of hunger and poverty and the many causes. These interactive sessions are effective with a variety of audiences – business, civic, political, faith-based, middle and high schools and universities. For more information please email advocacy@capitalareafoodbank.org
Farm Youth Initiative
This program teaches urban youth about the importance of making healthy food choices through a nutrition class and a field trip to Clagett Farm. Classes focus on basic nutrition themes centered around a hands-on opportunity to participate in vegetable growing, cultivating, harvesting and healthy snack preparation. For more information please visit our Farm Youth Initiative webpage or email fgu@capitalareafoodbank.org
Hunger Champions
Hunger Champions are supporters who are committed to advocating on behalf of the Capital Area Food Bank and the issue of hunger. For more information please email advocacy@capitalareafoodbank.org
Kids Cook!
This compliments the Kids Cafe® program by providing nutrition education at after school program sites. It teaches Kids Cafe® participants and staff fun ways to prepare healthy snacks using nutritious and economical ingredients. The program strives to teach kids how to independently prepare healthy snacks for themselves, while on site staff that observe and assist in lessons, are “trained” to prepare healthy interactive snacks with the kids. For more information please email cooking@capitalareafoodbank.org
Operation Frontline®
The Operation Frontline Program enlists volunteer chefs and nutrition educators to teach nutrition, cooking, food safety and food budgeting. These series are taught once a week for six weeks at community centers, schools, senior centers and transitional housing. For more information please email ofl@capitalareafoodbank.org
TEFAP (The Emergency Food Assistance Program)
Every month the CAFB collaborates with the USDA to distribute food through the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) directly to those eligible in Arlington, Langley Park and Northeast D.C. communities. For more information please email agencyrelations@capitalareafoodbank.org
Urban Gardening with Youth
This program teaches gardening and nutrition skills in Anacostia. This community-based summer education program encourages the consumption of fresh, seasonal produce through a hands-on urban gardening experience and healthy snack cooking classes. For more information please visit our From the Ground Up in the Community program webpage and email fgu@capitalareafoodbank.org