Community Kitchen Pittsburgh provides culinary jobs training to people who are unemployed or underemployed and who may 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 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), with proceeds supporting our programs.