The social entrepreneurs of Through The Kitchen Door use food as fuel for healthy, stable families and sustainable community development.

Dedicated to empowering recent immigrant and low income adults and at-risk youth, Through The Kitchen Door® training programs are designed to enhance and support increased self-esteem, self-confidence, knowledge and skills. The hands-on cooperative training techniques create an aspirational environment encouraging and enabling healthy life choices, improved family stability, success in school, professional advancement and active community involvement. We do all this in the kitchen, working and learning together in a known, safe, nurturing setting teaching delicious, healthy, economical, culturally respectful cooking and important life skills.

Grants and contributions are used to underwrite our basic programs for adults and teens in partnership with existing, respected non profit organizations that share our goals Through The Kitchen Door brings its training to neighborhoods, community events and schools. Our ‘Kitchen Door’ opens with keys to knowledge, skills and self-confidence that encourage and assist trainees to make healthy choices; successfully bridge cultures; improve stability and quality of life within families and throughout our communities.

All trainees completing a basic program are eligible for advanced paid professional training in our self-sustaining non-profit catering business.