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Catalyst Kitchens National Summit 2025
Event description
MEMBER NOTE!ย Be sure to grab the Members discount code available here, and get the member discount price of $350 (or $250 if you choose not to attend the gala).
Our 2025 National Summit will bring together nonprofits, social enterprises, and hunger relief organizations from across the country for 3 days of amazing content, networking, and collaboration. We will be focusing on three main tracks of content:
Training, Education, and Career Pathways
A space to plan for the future of training in the culinary field, in addition to transferrable skills, social services, and all ways to best serve our students and clients.
Kitchen Innovation
Discussions on the newest and highest performing models of social enterprise and hunger relief operations; planning a future more diverse than ever with new approaches to operations, products, services, and revenues.
Development, Community, and Communications
Featured best practices in community partnership, funder relationships, community organizing, marketing strategies, donor relationships, and so much more.
We will also address ways in which the network is growing, supporting the restaurant industry, advocating for graduates and frontline workers, and much more.
Have an idea you want to submit for a session in one of those tracksย at the national summit?ย Do so on our event page on the Catalyst Kitchens website.ย Members that help to create a session for the National Summit will receive free registrations.ย You can do that here.
Travel Stipends:
Our budget for the National Summit includes seeking funds to support every member to travel to this event.ย If you are worried about price and affordability to make this event accessible for you or your team, please reach out so we can help to prioritize where those funds are spent. Our top priorities for travel stipend funds will be for member session speakers (see above) and organizations with financial need for support.
The 2025 Travel Stipend Request Form is now active!ย Click here to get started.
Network Gala Celebration
On the night of the 14th, Catalyst Kitchens is holding a celebration of our network and our progress, with our first ever network gala.ย This event will be a combination and collaboration, including elements of a Catalyst Kitchens Pop-up celebration, a Community Kitchen Pittsburgh Guest Chef Night, and an official Jacques Pepin Foundation 90/90 Dinner Series Event.ย It will be a six course event meant to celebrate the growth of the network and the collective impact and innovation of its members.ย ย The cost to attend the partnership gala will be $100 for attendees of the summit, and we highly encourage you to purchase a ticket along with your registration. Full price gala tickets for $250 each. Read more details about sponsorship opportunities and standalone gala tickets here.
Who You’ll Be Joining
Member organizations and network partners already signed up to attend the summit (updated weekly):
Already signed up for the event and joining us in Pittsburgh will be:
- Community Kitchen Pittsburgh
- FareStart
- Maryland Food Bank
- Farm Fresh Rhode Island / Harvest Kitchen
- UMOM New Day Centers
- Riverview Gardens
- Project Feast
- ARC Broward
- Trenton Area Soup Kitchen
- Manna on Main Street
- The Jacques Pepin Foundation
- Philabundance Community Kitchen
- RATIONAL Cooking Systems, Inc
- CitySeed
- Forge City Works
- Open Hand Atlanta
- Gather
- Root North Shore
- The Prospect KC
- Sonoma Family Meal
- Homeward Bound of Marin County
- Food Jobs Work
MEMBER NOTE!ย Be sure to grab the Members discount code available here, and get the member discount price of $350 (or $250 if you choose not to attend the gala).
MEMBER NOTE!ย Be sure to grab the Members discount code available here, and get the member discount price of $350 (or $250 if you choose not to attend the gala).