Community Kitchens

Hop on your bike and hit the streets with us on Juneteenth, 6/19, to give out sandwiches and bottled water to people in encampments and anyone else we encounter who needs a bite to eat. Our central kitchen will make as many sandwiches as we can hand out, so the more people who sign up for this event, the more we can feed the folks in our town who might otherwise struggle to get enough.

All you need is a bike to join our group, so sign up via the link in our bio, and roll down to the CK Kitchen on Friday, June 19th to give back to our community using the universal language of love and support: yummy food!

Sign up at portal.ckoakland.org/forms/bike

Please join us in welcoming incoming Executive Director, Jaynemarie Enyonam Angbah, EdD to the Community Kitchens team. We are honored and excited to have her extensive experience and expertise help guide us into the future!

Jaynemarie is a seasoned nonprofit professional, educator and systems change leader with over 20 years of experience serving youth, communities and families. She has held senior leadership roles at Children’s Aid and Boys & Girls Clubs of America, where she developed and scaled innovative programs across large city based and national networks. More recently she worked on the foundation side, leading strategic initiatives and supporting the foundation's commitment to improving educational outcomes and equity in K-12 education.

We first got to know Jaynemarie through her volunteer work at our Central Kitchen, where she has played a critical role in serving our community at our Doorfront Distribution program. Her volunteer work has helped to shape her vision for our mission and provides a strong foundation from which to advance it.

Jaynemarie was unanimously selected to lead Community Kitchens by our Board Directors out of a field of many strong candidates. Over the remainder of the year, Jaynemarie will work with the Board Transition Committee, meet key partners, learn our programs and practices and set agendas for the future. We hope that you enjoy meeting her as much as we have.

Read the 2025 Impact Report: ckoakland.org/2025-impact-report

Introducing Community Kitchens' 2025 Impact Report, a guide to how CK is helping to build a community where fewer people go hungry, and neighbors lift each other up using the power of a good meal. All the work that our staff and volunteers do– preparing, packaging and distributing meals to the people who need them– goes toward increasing the amount of people we can support, and those numbers are all in this report, including over 200,000 meals distributed in 2025.

Read our impact report to find out about all the different ways we use to get meals into the hands of our clients: through partner organizations, meal distributions at our central kitchens, volunteers on bicycles, and any other method that gets people fed. You can see where the people we feed live, how they fall through the cracks of our traditional food systems, and how a fresh and hearty meal from CK can affect their lives.

We had an amazing 2025, expanding our meal output, finding new distribution channels, and working with the community to provide networks of support for vulnerable people in our community. We promise to keep going in 2026 and beyond, always striving for a healthier, more compassionate, and more delicious Oakland! Thanks to everyone who supported these efforts.

As a service project for his upcoming Bar Mitzvah, Zeke S. decided to cook a whole bunch of great food for the community! He brought together 30 kids aged 5-15, and over 3 days they made teriyaki chicken, fajitas, cheeseburgers and more, packaged the food into individual meals, and delivered them to Town Fridges. They even included some pet food to help out our furry friends!

What an incredible job by our newest Home Chefs! This is what it looks like to put in the effort to support our East Bay neighborhoods, and the great part is that anyone can follow Zeke's example by cooking their favorite food in their home kitchen. If you want to make an impact like this, become a Home Chef volunteer today! Link in bio.

We were excited to join Andrew Crispin and team at to tour their site and learn more about their work.

Together we are thrilled to announce we will be working to provide healthy, culturally diverse prepared meals for their very low income seniors who have mobility challenges. By integrating our meals in their existing home delivery program we are effectively growing impact without redundancy. In this moment we need to work creatively to maximize our impact.