Hot Bread Kitchen

A Good Idea

Description

Hot Bread Kitchen (HBK) is a non-profit bakery that hires low-income, foreign-born women and men. HBK doubles as a training center and a commercial business where employees can develop language, commercial baking, and management skills. Employees at Hot Bread Kitchen are paid wages generated from product revenues, as well as corporate and private donations. After a year of employment, they receive assistance in finding professional baking jobs. To help the aspiring bakers become professionals or entrepreneurs, HBK rents industrial kitchen space by the hour.

Goal / Mission

Hot Bread Kitchen's mission is to increase economic security for foreign-born, low-income women and men by helping them gain access to the thriving specialty food industry.

Impact

Hot Bread Kitchen trains low-income, immigrant men and women for successful professional baking careers.

Results / Accomplishments

Hot Bread Kitchen customers have grown to include Restaurant Daniel, Waldorf-Astoria, and Whole Foods. The breads are also available for purchase at weekly local farmer's markets. HBK graduates have gone on to pursue their professional culinary ambitions. HBK has been hailed by the United Nations Development Program and the Clinton Foundation as a scalable model for training programs throughout the world.

About this Promising Practice

Primary Contact
1590 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10029
(212) 369-3331
info@hotbreadkitchen.org
http://hotbreadkitchen.org/
Topics
Economy / Employment
Source
NPR
Geographic Type
Urban
Location
New York City, NY
For more details
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/07/273154...
Target Audience
Women, Men, Racial/Ethnic Minorities

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