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Post from Community: Riverwest Food Pantry changes name to Kinship Community Food Center

April 21, 2022 by Kinship Community Food Center 1 Comment

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Effective immediately, Riverwest Food Pantry, a community food center that is committed to improving lives and growing community well-being, will become Kinship Community Food Center. The name change reflects the organization’s sense of belonging, priority for serving the whole person, and potential to engage people from all parts of greater Milwaukee.

“Think of our new identity as an invitation to people from all corners of the city to come together to help each other thrive through belonging, giving, and receiving,” said Vincent Noth Executive Director of Kinship Community Food Center. “We are a community of generosity that shares our struggles and our joys, our lives and wisdom. That’s what kinship is all about.”

The name change comes at a critical time for the center, which distributes around 300,000 pounds of food every year, even during the height of the COVID pandemic where they served 35,000 from the parking lot over 23 months and has recently transitioned back to regular in-person operations. Current programs include a fresh food market; a 27,000-square-foot organic farm; collaborative meals; crisis assistance mentoring; and community trainings about poverty and transformational service. The Center hired former Tandem restaurant owner and chef Caitlin Cullen as Food Center Director in January after attracting a two- year impact grant from the Dohmen Co. Foundation to expand its food and wellness, food quality, and food stability programs.

The Center’s main outreach is through their food distribution site at St. Casimir Church, 924 E. Clarke Street. The organization recently announced its intentions to acquire a large headquarters site that will house its offices, food center operations, and a commercial kitchen.

Noth, who offers a weekly “Poverty 101” talk as part of their trainings, engages volunteers and newcomers to see themselves in kinship with the Center’s shoppers. Noth primarily sees the Center as a place where shopping, cooking, and eating together helps to address wider challenges, like hunger, isolation, and poverty.

“Food is a way to serve the whole person and share our lives,” he says. “It’s a change in how we see our city and community. We belong to one another.”

The Center has been operating for more than 40 years, first as a program of the East Side Housing Action Committee (ESHAC) and ministry of St. Casimir Parish, and then becoming an independent nonprofit in 2013. Its mission is to come together around food to relieve hunger, improve lives, and grow community well-being. Its approach is to build a community of generosity that is well-nourished, well-informed, and strengthened to prevail.

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  1. Arlene Wehmanen says

    April 22, 2022 at 10:14 am

    If you get out of River West after it was brought to life here will be so sad. Keeping it in River West would only be right. That’s how I feel. Thanks

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