Community Kitchen Pittsburgh provides culinary training to people who are unemployed or underemployed and who have barriers that prevent them from reaching their full potential. All students receive comprehensive culinary instruction, job placement services, wrap-around support, case management, a stipend for their work, and referrals for services to help them gain the stability in the lives needed to succeed. We follow-up with our graduates for at least one year after they leave us to make sure they are continuing to thrive. We are considered an employment-based social enterprise, as all participants are paid while in training with us, and we also provide extended transitional employment for those who can benefit from a longer engagement in a supported work environment. We train in a commercial commissary kitchen with upwards of 2000 meals daily going to area homeless shelters, schools, afterschool programs and other nonprofits serving vulnerable clientele. Increasingly, we are partnering with other agencies to pair meals with other critical services. We also operate market-based social enterprises lines (such as our catering, butchery, events, and food truck). Our social enterprises provide us with over half of our annual operating budget as well as the foundation for our training and transitional employment and an important touchpoint with the community-making visible and humanizing the people we serve.