HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD
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Mission Statement
Hot Bread Kitchen’s mission is to create economic opportunity for people impacted by gender, racial, and socioeconomic inequality in New York City. We seek to expand job skills, entrepreneurship, connections, and life-changing opportunities for immigrant women and women of color (i.e. program participants) in reaching their economic goals.
About This Cause
Founded in 2008, Hot Bread Kitchen has over 13 years of experience investing in New York City’s immigrant, Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities by providing social service, workforce training, job placement, and retention support, and entrepreneurship programming that put women on a path to economic mobility. Our mission is to create economic opportunity for individuals impacted by gender, racial, social, and/or economic inequality in New York City. We seek to expand skills, connections, and life-changing opportunities for the women we serve. Our roots in the food industry have allowed us to provide opportunities for women to enter this high-growth sector as bakers, prep cooks, and small food business owners. In our first ten years, we grew into a hub of opportunity, generating over $100 million in regional economic impact and sustaining a highly regarded culinary workforce development program and small food business incubator. During that time, our workforce program supported nearly 300 women with job training, placement, and supportive services to enter the culinary workforce, as well as 230 entrepreneurs with assistance to test, scale, and innovate their small food businesses. In 2019, we completed a three-year growth plan that quadrupled the number of women trained and placed annually in good culinary jobs from 25 in 2016 to 101 in 2019. As COVID-19 took hold in March 2020, Hot Bread Kitchen suspended all programming and moved quickly to respond to the fast-developing crisis facing our alumni. We were able to disburse $370,000 in cash relief to 235 alumni, small business owners, and their employees; fielded over 1,400 crisis support interventions related to food security, housing, childcare, mental and physical health. We have worked to transform our workforce and small business programming to meet the challenges presented by COVID-19. We had to re-evaluate the needs of our members and determine what programs and services would contribute most to their success. Our human-centered approach to job and career development includes understanding the barriers they face in returning to work, mitigating those challenges, and pursuing ways to support women in developing their plans for career and personal growth and achieving their goals. Today, we continue to emphasize our members’ stability during this period of great uncertainty as New York City moves towards a lengthy recovery. Recognizing that the community we serve was the hardest hit by job and income loss, we determined it is critical to invest in supporting this workforce to help them regain their economic mobility. To ensure these women have the skills they need to pursue opportunities that align with their goals, our Board of Directors has approved a new three-year strategic plan. Our bold new vision is to transform the workforce development sector and partner with over 1,000 immigrant women and women of color, putting them on a path to living-wage careers by the end of 2024, more than tripling the number of women we support to 350 per year. We see this expansion and our goal of serving more women as directly aligned with supporting New York City’s economic recovery.