They aren’t asking for money though they won’t turn it down. The 100 organizations getting the most votes on the Chase Community Giving project on Facebook will win $25,000. The Career through Culinary Arts Program, known as CCap has been raising funds for at risk students around the country and ask you just click and vote.
If you have read my posts for awhile you will remember me hyping the documentary Pressure Cooker, a look at an instructor and her students in an underprivileged neighborhood of Philadelphia. Read my earlier story on Pressure Cooker
Mission Statement
For teenagers who are at risk of leaving high school without job or college prospects, C-CAP offers direction, a real set of skills, and the potential for a fulfilling career in a growing industry. C-CAP works with public schools across the nation to prepare at-risk students for college and career opportunities in the restaurant and hospitality industry.
Program Info
C-CAP serves 10,000 students nationwide every year in 7 locations by upgrading the vocational culinary programs in over 200 public high schools through teacher training and donations of supplies and equipment. In addition, C-CAP empowers students go on to college-level study and secure full-time employment in the field through annual cooking competitions for scholarships, career and college counseling, job training, and internship and job opportunities.
To vote, follow these easy steps
1. Go to Facebook become a FAN of Chase Community Giving
2. Once you have become a fan, click on the VOTE button. That’s it, simple and you have helped raise money for scholarships for the at-risk students.
3. Come back each day and vote through December 11th.
The children thank you.
Comments
Worthwhile cause but what's it have to do with Balto or Balto dining?
Karl:
It is a worthy cause helping children at risk by training them in the culinary field. My posts are not always about Baltimore and Baltimore dining but it is about the culinary world and food, like my exclusive story with Sara Moulton on the closing of Gourmet which has nothing to do with Baltimore Dining but with the culinary world.
I am on the board for the Restaurant Association of Maryland's Education foundation, a mentor to a ProStart High Schoool culinary team and on the scholarship committee. This is a subject close to my heart. Helping children, giving them tools to succeed in this world is important to me. I hope you still took the time to vote.
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