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OUR
MISSION
Empowerment
through Training: Empower the lives of individuals
facing barriers to employment through comprehensive work preparedness/foodservice
training, soft skills training, supportive services, targeted
job placement and job retention efforts.
Social
Enterprise: Self-generate revenues through food-service-based
social enterprises that provide real-life training opportunities,
financial support of the program and a touch point with
the community.
Cost-effective,
Nutritious Meals: Provide benefits to the community
through the economic efficiencies of a centralized kitchen
that prepares nutritious meals for disadvantaged populations
and others on a contract basis, and to the public on a retail
basis.
Link
to Local Food Economy: Utilize the assets of local
food producers and manufacturers whenever possible to connect
supplier with consumer while educating, developing markets
for and promoting local agricultural wealth through culinary
arts.
Community
Based Philanthropy: Values and business decisions
applied to both Leaf, Loaf & Ladles employment preparedness
as well as social enterprise operations are to be guided
by community based philanthropy, illustrating how individuals
can effectively re-connect and give back to their community
through daily work supplying a binding universal need: food.
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