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The Charlie Cart Project is a non-profit food education program founded in 2015 by Carolyn Federman in Berkeley, California.[1]

The Charlie Cart Project reaches children and educators at more than 500 schools, libraries, food banks, clinics, and Veterans Associations in 46 states.[2] The organization's mission is to change the food system from the ground up by empowering communities with an accessible and mobile culinary education program.[3]

The Charlie Cart Project’s namesake Charlie Cart is a fully equipped mobile kitchen to be used alongside proprietary classroom curriculum aligned with Common Core standards.[4][5]The Charlie Cart comes with interdisciplinary curriculum with a focus on food education as well as math, English, science, and social studies.[6] The name Charlie Cart is a reference to the chuck wagon, a mobile field kitchen from the early pioneering days in the United States and Canada.[7]

History

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The first Charlie Cart was tested in 2014, and after an initial fundraising campaign that raised over $40,000, the organization shipped its first three carts in 2015.[8] The project's founder and Executive Director, Carolyn Federman, worked with Celery Design in Berkeley to create the first prototype of the Charlie Cart.[9]

In 2016, Lowcountry Food Bank in South Carolina became the first hunger relief organization to purchase a Charlie Cart.[10] By October 2018, the Charlie Cart Project expanded to over 100 sites in 30 states. In 2019, the Charlie Cart grew to 150 locations in 37 states, and reached 200,000 children and their families.[11]

An analysis by Johns Hopkins in 2023 revealed that 84% of children with exposure to the Charlie Cart Project tried a new food, and 38% encouraged their parents to incorporate that food into their recipes at home.[12]

Leadership

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Prior to starting the Charlie Cart Project, Carolyn Federman served as Development Director at the Chez Panisse Foundation and the Edible Schoolyard.[13] In 2018, she published a cookbook, New Favorites for New Cooks: 50 Delicious Recipes for Kids to Make which informs the Charlie Cart Project teaching.[14]

The Charlie Cart Project has an Advisory Board and Board of Directors whose members include notable food educators, policymakers, and business professionals.[15] Among its advisors is Alice Waters, the founder of Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley and the Edible Schoolyard Project. Waters was one of the first donors to the hunger relief organization Share Our Strength and has served as a vice president of Slow Food since 2002.[16] Other members of its Advisory Board include author Michael Pollan and Harold McGee, a trustee for the Oxford Symposium.[17]

The current Board Chair is Melissa Ho, a Senior Vice President at World Wildlife Fund. Marc Friend, the CEO of RapidAPI, also serves on the Board of Directors as Board Treasurer.[18]

Sponsors and Partners

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The Charlie Cart partners with several companies to provide equipment and cooking tools for its carts, including Dexas, Richlite, Progressive, Vitamix, Victorinox Swiss Army, and Cuisinart.[19]

References

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  1. ^ "The Charlie Cart Project - GuideStar Profile". www.guidestar.org. Retrieved 2024-07-25.
  2. ^ Greene, Liza (2023-07-10). "The Charlie Cart Project Inspires Food Education". Food Tank. Retrieved 2024-07-17.
  3. ^ Greene, Liza (2023-07-10). "The Charlie Cart Project Inspires Food Education". Food Tank. Retrieved 2024-07-25.
  4. ^ "Charlie Cart | Edible East Bay". 2015-02-17. Retrieved 2024-07-21.
  5. ^ Content, Contributed (2017-05-02). "First school-based Charlie Cart mobile kitchen classroom on the Peninsula makes its debut". InMenlo. Retrieved 2024-07-21.
  6. ^ Oyuela, Andrea (2019-10-02). "The Kitchen on Wheels Changing Food Education in the U.S." Food Tank. Retrieved 2024-07-25.
  7. ^ "How a modern day chuckwagon gets kids to eat their veggies". KALW. Retrieved 2024-07-17.
  8. ^ Hamilton, April. "Mobile Teaching Kitchen Project Grows To One Hundred-Plus Units From Coast To Coast". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-07-17.
  9. ^ West, Nicole (2015-04-28). "The Charlie Cart, a newly designed mobile kitchen, brings food education into the classroom". Richmond Confidential. Retrieved 2024-07-17.
  10. ^ "Nutrition Initiatives | Lowcountry Food Bank". lowcountryfoodbank.org. Retrieved 2024-07-21.
  11. ^ Oyuela, Andrea (2019-10-02). "The Kitchen on Wheels Changing Food Education in the U.S." Food Tank. Retrieved 2024-07-17.
  12. ^ Greene, Liza (2023-07-10). "The Charlie Cart Project Inspires Food Education". Food Tank. Retrieved 2024-07-21.
  13. ^ Wall, Alix (January 14, 2020). "Have cart, will travel: Portable kitchens bring edible education into classrooms". The Jewish News of Northern California. Retrieved July 17, 2024.
  14. ^ "New Favorites for New Cooks by Carolyn Federman: 9780399579455 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2024-07-21.
  15. ^ "E46: Charlie Cart's Carolyn Federman on Food, Fun, and Classrooms". World Food Policy Center. Retrieved 2024-07-21.
  16. ^ "Slow Food is the Good News: In Conversation with Alice Waters". Slow Food. Retrieved 2024-07-17.
  17. ^ "Trustees". Oxford Food Symposium. Retrieved 2024-07-17.
  18. ^ Roberts, Andrea Suozzo, Alec Glassford, Ash Ngu, Brandon (2013-05-09). "Charlie Cart Project - Nonprofit Explorer". ProPublica. Retrieved 2024-07-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  19. ^ "Foundation - Grantee Database". Vitamix.com. Retrieved 2024-07-21.
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