• Introducing Kinship

    The change is in the name.

 

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OUR STORY STARTED OVER FOUR DECADES AGO.

 

A focus on food scarcity.

We are proud of our history which began by providing food to the undernourished in Milwaukee.

Through a simple idea…

We all have a gift to give
We all have a gift to receive

People began to grow, shop, cook, and eat together to address our wider challenges of hunger isolation and poverty.

It’s a change in the way we see hunger.

Food is a way to serve the whole person and share our lives.

It’s a change in how we see our city and community.

We belong to one another.

We help each other thrive through belonging, giving, and receiving. Through friendship and mentoring, we share our struggles and our joys, our lives and wisdom.

That’s what kinship is all about.

 

It’s with full hearts that we have some big news to share with our friends and neighbors.

Riverwest Food Pantry is now called Kinship Community Food Center.

It’s a new name but the same heart.

And our story continues.

We’re looking forward to sharing the next chapter, together with you.

Welcome to our Community of Generosity.

A Catalyst for Change

A Community Food Center

This new approach is a dynamic response to our community’s desire for deeper kinship, greater wellness programming, and expanded support to advocate for housing and employment stability. It empowers residents to create nourishment, belonging, and prosperity in low-income communities through the power of food. It draws people from all cultural and socio-economic backgrounds into a deeper community of mutuality. 

Developed alongside a growing network of innovative hunger organizations across the United States and Canada, our model addresses the wellness of a community by using food as an entry point for change. 

At Kinship Community Food Center, the relationships that happen around food have the power to transform our lives as individuals and as a community. 

Only around a common table can we begin to dissolve the barriers that divide our city as we seek lasting, sustainable ways of helping one another flourish in both body and spirit.

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