Kinship Community Food Center

08/19/2026

In addition to the Kinship Café, our new home will provide additional space to expand our social enterprise and workforce development program. Over five years, we expect to hire and empower 80 trainees towards long-term employment. 🩵 We need your support to expand this program. When you invest in Kinship, you're helping to provide pathways to stability. Learn more at https://buildingaplaceforkinship.org

08/15/2026

Construction Update: The site at the corner of Holton & Locust is continuing to take shape! The VJS Concrete Crew is hard at work on the building footings and foundation for our new permanent home.
Photos courtesy of VJS Construction Services

08/14/2026

Kinship is about more than food. We train our volunteers and to offer radical hospitality to anyone who walks through our doors, no matter what.

08/11/2026

In our new permanent home, our crisis support and mentoring program will finally have the space it deserves. In the first five years, we expect a 50% increase in the number of households stabilized and mentoring relationships, bringing the five-year total to 1,400. But we can't expand this program without your help.

By investing in our new home, you'll be investing in your community. ♥️ A gift of any amount moves us closer to our goal. Learn more at https://buildingaplaceforkinship.org/donate

Artwork by our friends at 4th Dimension Sobriety

08/10/2026

“What if food was an entry point, a catalyst to community change, as opposed to just distributing food?” You can watch all of Vincent's chat with Steve Scaffidi and Kristin Brey on Newsradio 620 WTMJ to learn more about our approach to changing the way hunger is addressed in Milwaukee.

With the new Kinship Community Food Center recently breaking ground...

08/07/2026

Some special guests joined us at the Urban Farm today. The Pittsburgh Pirates were in town to play the Brewers, and instead of a day off, players and coaches spent the morning volunteering alongside our team through Big League Impact, a nonprofit that connects pro athletes with service in the communities they visit. Thanks for digging in with us! ⚾️🌱

08/05/2026

Getting access to fresh, healthy food can be a challenge depending on where you live. Our Food Center provides a place for our neighbors to get fresh produce 2x/week, including produce grown locally at our Urban Farm.

08/04/2026

This past week, some of our Kinship team traveled to Los Angeles for the 2026 Global Homeboy Network Gathering at Homeboy Industries. They spent several days learning alongside incredible organizations, all using social enterprise, workforce development, healing, and community to stand beside people who have too often been pushed to the margins.

As our Café Operations Manager, Nikki, put it: "Seeing what they have built didn't make our program feel small. It made a bigger future feel possible."

Homeboy's work is rooted in the same belief as ours: that transformation happens through relationships, that people are more than the hardest things they've lived through, and that meaningful work can create belonging, dignity, stability, and healing.

In Nikki's words: "Look what's possible when we stop defining people by their past and start building communities that recognize their resilience, invest in their potential, honor their inherent worth, and surround them with limitless love."

Thank you, Homeboy Industries, for your generosity and your example. We're only getting started. 💛

08/02/2026

Radical hospitality means that everyone who walks through our door is greeted with "no matter what" love. Our new home gives us a space to welcome more neighbors than ever, and over five years we'll train 67,000 volunteers on the root causes of poverty and how to create an environment where everyone feels welcomed. But we can't expand this program without you! Every gift, of any size, moves us closer to our goal. 💜 Learn more at https://buildingaplaceforkinship.org/donate

08/01/2026

Have you seen what we're building? 🌱

This is plan for the future home of Kinship and the first Community Food Center of its kind in Milwaukee.

A permanent home won't be built by a few large gifts alone, but by all of us deciding to invest in our city. Come be a part of it. 💚