Growth for Good: Expansion Project to End Food Insecurity Completed

At Toni's Kitchen, we believe that ending food insecurity in our community is within reach. Our goal is to live in a food secure community within the next 3-5 years.

Toni's Kitchen provided 1.7 million meals in 2022 in our community–a 600% increase since 2019. When Covid-19 hit, our dining room turned into a warehouse for pallets of food to meet the huge spike in demand. Conference rooms became aisles of grocery shelves and soup kitchen meals were packaged up for take-away.

With the help of amazing donors, we have made 5000+ square feet of previously inaccessible space at St. Luke's available to Toni's Kitchen. This space now allows us to pack groceries in ways that ensure each community – families, seniors, children – are receiving healthy food appropriate to their needs. Our dining room has returned to a warm gathering space for meals. We now have the food packaging space needed to ensure all children and families go to sleep without worries about food. Our new walk-in refrigeration keeps dairy and produce fresh for our 60+ community partner programs. 

As we feel the global winds of shifting food supply, economic disruptions and climate challenges, a resilent and elastic network deeply embedded in our community becomes ever more important. We thank our incredibly generous donors for their support is making this project happen so we can meet out goal of ending food insecurity in the communities we serve.