Opened in 1984, FoodChange's Community Kitchen, located in Central Harlem, offers the neighboring low-income community a broad range of interrelated programs alleviating hunger, promoting healthy nutrition, and facilitating access to social services.

Our Healthy Dining service offers healthy, nutritious meals to area residents. More than 6,000 meals are prepared, served, picked up, or distributed each month to low-income adults and children, homeless and jobless, seniors and disabled. To reach as wide an audience as possible and accommodate people’s life styles, FoodChange provides three dining options:

·          Congregate Meals: People come to the Community Kitchen in person on Monday and Wednesday and share a congregate meal.

·          Family Meals: Pre-packed meals are picked up by enrolled neighborhood families, Monday to Friday, for consumption in a family setting.

·          Delivered Meals: Meals are delivered, Monday through Friday, to homebound people living with HIV/AIDS in Harlem through the Ryan White Program, which assists New York’s AIDS population.

The Community Kitchen prepares nutritious meals and buys a substantial amount of its fresh produce, vegetables, and fruits directly from local farmers. Its professional cooks are assisted by students of FoodChange's Culinary Training Program who gain hands-on experience in a real-world kitchen.

Located at 252 West 116th Street (between 7th Avenue and Frederick Douglass Boulevard) in a building housing several of FoodChange's direct services, the Community Kitchen serves its congregate meals twice a week, prepares and packages family meals all five weekdays, and delivers meals to home bound HIV/AIDS clients five days a week.

More than a million meals have been served since 1984.

For more information, contact Jesse Taylor, Senior Director, Community Kitchen/Senior Meals, at jtaylor@foodchange.org.