A STUDENT-CENTERED, ANTI-HUNGER NUTRITION PROJECT IN AN URBAN CITY INVOLVING FIVE COMMUNITY PARTNERS

THE RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY

Dr. Reva Curry, Executive Director of Community PartnershipsDr. Joseph Rubenstein, Professor of AnthropologyAmanda Parris, Community Partnership FellowLauren Kablis, Community Partnership Fellow

We are for Positive Social Change

• Mutually beneficial• Mutually respectful• Goal oriented• Collaboration from multiple groups• College student involvement• Think Tank – Project Development –

Pilots – Evaluation• Transformative for everyone involved

Creating Positive Social Changethrough academics and relationship

building

Homework Assistance/ MentoringHomework Assistance/ Mentoring

• After school program at MLK Complex

• K- 8th grade

• 2:45-4:30pm one – two afternoons a week

Creating Positive Social Change through school

beautificationLocal African American Local African American HistoryHistory Mural at MLK School Mural at MLK School• Collaboration with

– MLK social studies teachers and students

– Local community – Noyes Museum

• Mural in Foyer Entrance of MLK School– To be completed by June 2011

Mural Image completed June 2010 Mural Image completed June 2010 at New York Avenue Schoolat New York Avenue School

Creating Positive Social Change through school

beautificationMLK School Mural

African-American History of Atlantic City

Creating Positive Social Change Through Gardens

Covenant HouseCommunity Garden Texas Avenue School Garden

Creating Positive Social Change through Gardens

St. Mary’s Church Garden Team Garden Team Planting the Seeds

Creating Positive Social Change through student

leadershipInvesting in our Students

• Stockton College student involvement…

• Transition from service participant to transformational leaders managing projects

Community Partnership FellowsLauren Kablis and Amanda Parris

What Would Happen If We Integrated Two Projects?

Protecting Our Environment while Creating Positive Social Change

• National program involving 30 university and high school campuses

• Un-served, usable food from school cafeterias is combined with food donations to create nutritious meals to delivery to needy families.

It Makes a Difference• 1, 240,456 lb of food

recovered• 1,060,055 meals served• 20,000 students engaged• 250,062 hours volunteered• $2,766,000 saved by

community agencies and individuals in need

The Campus Kitchens Project

Protecting Our Environment while Creating Positive Social Change

DC Central Kitchen • Operates The Campus

Kitchens Project, Culinary Job Training for Released Inmates, Breakfast Programs, Catering, Contract Foodservices

• 5000 meals prepared daily for the Greater Washington DC Area.

Founder Robert Egger• Nonprofit community

essential to the national, state and local economy, and can promotes positive social change.

• Nonprofit community must work together and join forces to have a greater voice nationally, statewide and locally

Protecting Our Environment while Creating Positive Social Change

Sampling of Current Campus Kitchen Locations

• St. Louis University• Northwestern University• Marquette University• Minnesota State University• University of Nebraska• Washington and Lee

University• Gettysburg College• College of William and Mary

New 2010 Campus Kitchen Openings

• University of Massachusetts• St. Lawrence University• Union College• East Carolina University• University of Virginia• Washington University• Richard Stockton College

Creating Positive Social Change through student leadership

• Stockton College• Atlantic City Board of

Education• Atlantic Cape CC Culinary

Academy• Sodexo Foods• Atlantic City Boys & Girls

Club

Campus Kitchen at Atlantic City Student Leaders and Volunteers

The Campus Kitchen Local PartnersThe Campus Kitchen Local Partners

The Campus Kitchen at The Campus Kitchen at Atlantic CityAtlantic City

Over 2800 lbs of food donated & 2000 meals served to needy families• Cooking Shift: Mondays 3-

5pm• Plating Shift: Tuesdays, 3-

4pm• Delivery Shift: Tuesdays,

4-5:30pm

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Creating Positive Social Change

Creating Positive Social Change

Plating Meals Meal Loading

Creating Positive Social Change

through student leadershipLessons Learned from Campus Kitchen at Atlantic City

• Student recruitment, development and deployment takes time.

• Student leadership at a higher level is needed for Campus Kitchen and other projects

Provost support in Community Partnership Fellows

Creating Positive Social Change

Linking Projects• Connecting Campus

Kitchen of Atlantic City to Community and School Gardens in Atlantic City and Pleasantville

• Desired Outcomes– Maintain gardens for

optimal yield each year– Donate portion of produce to

Campus Kitchen at Atlantic City for nutritious meals

Lessons Learned• Community Projects are

complex , evolve over time, and require multiple community partners.

• Transformation over time is desired, not a “quick fix” which doesn’t last.

• Community and school empowerment through transformation is key.

CP Fellow Assignments:

• Student recruitment, training and deployment• Manage/coordinate 2 projects• Be knowledgeable on all projects • Assist in writing, presenting and publishing• Maintain Website, Facebook presence• Assist in compiling data, research, and status reports

A Student-Centered, Anti-Hunger Nutrition Project in an Urban City Involving Five

Community PartnersCreating Positive Social Change

• Questions?