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Vetri Community Partnership relies on volunteers to assist in bringing culinary and nutrition education to our schools and community.

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Volunteer with Vetri Cooking Lab and help guide students through recipes that teach important nutrition lessons and develop critical life skills.

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Next week in the Teaching Kitchen, Angela Duckwort

Next week in the Teaching Kitchen, Angela Duckworth, Penn psychology professor, founder & CEO of @characterlab, and author of the book Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, will be guiding us through the ins and outs of Ellen Bennett's new book, Dream First, Details Later. Join us for an inspiring discussion of persistence, focus, endurance, and constant improvement and how it all plays a role in making a glimmer of an idea reality!

This event is totally free to attend, and wine, beer, and light snacks will be provided. There will also be an opportunity for guests to purchase signed copies of Ellen's book! RSVP in the link in our bio.

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Shoutout to all of our Vetri Cooking Lab students

Shoutout to all of our Vetri Cooking Lab students who came out to the Teaching Kitchen this afternoon for the High School Cookoff! What an exciting way to show off the skills you guys have been building all semester and celebrate the end of the school year! It was so cool to see all of your creative ideas come to life.

Thank you to our wonderful judges, educators, staff, and students who played a role in making today chaotic in the BEST way possible.

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We can hardly wait to welcome Ellen Bennett, CEO a

We can hardly wait to welcome Ellen Bennett, CEO and Founder of Hedley & Bennett, into the Teaching Kitchen next week! Ellen will talk about her new book, Dream First, Details Later with Angela Duckworth, a psychology professor at Penn and author of the book Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.

We look forward to chatting about how Ellen leapt into making her apron company a reality from the glimmer of an idea, and everything she encountered along the way to turning that glimmer into a multi-million dollar company.

This event is totally free to attend, and wine, beer, and light snacks will be provided. There will also be an opportunity for guests to purchase signed copies of Ellen's book! Check out the link in our bio to RSVP for an event that you will be sure to leave inspired by.

#nutrition #culinaryeducation #nutritioneducation #nutritioneducationforkids #nonprofit #phillynonprofit #socialimpactseries #freeevents #freeeventsofphiladelphia

Did you know that you can bring interactive and in

Did you know that you can bring interactive and informative pop-up cooking demonstrations to your neighborhood? The Mobile Teaching Kitchen is VCP on wheels! When MTK comes to you, you'll get: a food demonstration on nutritious, plant-forward recipes, a sampling of the dish cooked right in front of you, and a take-home recipe so you can try your hand at making it at home.

For more information, contact sam@vetricommunity.org or check out the link in our bio!

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Through nutrition addition, we add nourishing food

Through nutrition addition, we add nourishing foods to meals that you may already eat and enjoy. Eating pancakes for breakfast? Add fruit on top or try making our Carrot Cake Pancakes & Cinnamon Applesauce for maximum breakfast nutrition addition! 😋

Check out our blog post (by Vetri Community Partnership’s Community Dietitian, Tara Bledsoe MS, RDN, LDN) all about the importance of eating fruits and veggies, along with easy tips and recipes on nutrition addition! Link in bio.

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We are SO incredibly honored to have joined chefs

We are SO incredibly honored to have joined chefs @choibites, @bobbyflay, @marcvetri, and @chefsymon for the 2nd annual Friends of Marc Dinner last night! It was a night full of comradery, flavors and foods that we will remember for a lifetime, and coming together to support Vetri Community Partnership.

Watching these four iconic chefs work together in one kitchen was mesmerizing to say the least, and we're so happy to have had you all there with us. Thank you to everyone who made it out, bid on the auction, and made the night one to remember!

Endless thanks to @fitlerclub and their team for hosting us, as well as our sponsors!
@theemersongroup, @comcast, @aramark, @sevenwraps, @zekaukasfamily, @fitlerclub, @fredmagnotta, @mandt_bank, Patty & Craig Giordano, Jill & Tom Durovsik, Lisa Dykstra & David Rode, Melchiorre Family Partnership, Chris & Irma Fralic, Jaimie & David Field, Nancy & Jim Baxter, and Lois & Michael Haber

The Friends of Marc Dinner is tomorrow night, and

Join Vetri Community Partnership, author @angelald

Join Vetri Community Partnership, author @angelalduckworth, founder & CEO of @characterlab, and @hedleyandbennett CEO Ellen Bennett in a conversation about how to make your dreams a reality next month on June 8th in the Teaching Kitchen! RSVP via the link in @vetricommunity's bio.