Creating a Culinary Social Enterprise
The Prospect KC is a social enterprise supporting communities suffering from food apartheid with improved food access, nutrition education, culinary job training and entrepreneurship.
Initiatives
The Prospect KC stands for social equality across all things food.
The Spot — a café, sustainably sourced coffeeshop and fresh grocer — operating under The Prospect KC umbrella is designed to be a community space filled with delicious fresh foods prepared throughout the day by our Prospects, shared at community tables overflowing with dishes designed to nourish body and soul.”he Prospect KC is for social equality, across all things food, culinary education and culinary access.
We see our future space filled with laughter and delicious food that's been cooked together by hand or heart: hearth kitchens teaching skills, taste buds dancing over each bite shared at communal tables, overflowing with dishes made fresh throughout the day.
16-Week Culinary Training Program
The Prospect KC’s applied training model means students (our Prospects) learn on the job skills they can immediately put to the test at The Spot, a café, sustainably sourced coffeeshop and fresh grocer located at 2000 Vine St. in the historic Jazz District. In addition to learning knife skills, food preparation, food safety and business entrepreneurship as a part of their hands-on training, Prospects also learn interpersonal skills and stress management, while supported by a case manager able to navigate access to wrap-around social services (including SNAP, childcare and more). Such support translates into stronger individuals, families and communities.
Donate
The Prospects are the community we serve. When you make a tax-deductible contribution, you not only help to provide sustenance for the table, you also provide opportunities through our many programs and support the services that can help Prospects work their way out of poverty one day at a time.
We offer many ways to get involved in The Prospect KC community, from volunteering as a group or individual to making financial and in-kind contributions.he Prospects are the community that we serve. When you make a contribution, it not only helps to provide them food but also opportunities through our programs and services where they can work their way out of poverty one day at a time.
Volunteer
Volunteers are essential to the success of The Prospect KC. From individuals to corporations, each volunteer hour helps execute our mission and repair a sense of community.
Whether volunteers want hands-on experience like gardening or to interact and help in the commercial kitchen, we have something that will fit their interests!
Your support is essential to community growth.
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