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Determined to drive social change through food, Meyer created the Melting Pot Foundation in 2010 and has since offered culinary and career opportunities to communities in need. His latest project is the Brownsville Community Culinary Center, providing tuition-free culinary training for residents in Brownsville, Brooklyn, which will also include a participant-run neighborhood eatery, opening this summer.
HuffPost
Brownsville, Brooklyn is a food desert. But in 2018, the Brownsville Community Culinary Center opened its doors to provide healthy food options that are also affordable. Since then, it’s helped dozens of local residents train to become chefs, while also providing the community with its first sit-down restaurant in decades.
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The New York Times
The crux of the initiative is an educational program that will put students, most in their 20s and early 30s and from the community, through 40 weeks of kitchen classwork and apprenticing, for which they are paid a stipend. The intention is to prepare them for careers in the food and restaurant industry as they make the meals to be served at the center, which will be run as a nonprofit.
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Brownstoner
The Brownsville Community Culinary Center, located at 69 Belmont Avenue, has announced that in addition to their restaurant, culinary training program and community space, they will soon debut their Diabetes Wellness Program, with an aim to serve the neighborhood.
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WNYC
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