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Best Youth Services in Marin
With home economics classes vanishing from most schools, it’s a challenge for kids to learn proper nutrition and food preparation. Fortunately, Kids Cooking for Life is here to fix that. Their well-trained staff will bustle into a classroom to walk students through how to cook healthy, delicious meals. They also offer virtual home lessons.
Kids Cooking for Life hits 15th milestone
What started as a single class 15 years ago is now a robust nutrition and cooking program serving seven counties throughout the Bay Area and touching the lives of more than 1,000 at-risk children each year.
Marin Gives Back 2023: How Your Donation Can Help Local Charities and Nonprofits
$50 covers the cost of fresh, nutritious groceries to be used in recipes for two classes, serving 30 young chefs.
Voted Best Youth Services in Marin 2023
We’re thrilled that Marin Magazine named Kids Cooking for Life, as one among five of the best nonprofits, in the youth services, 'Best of the County' category, which tallied 7200 votes. Thank you Marin Magazine and everyone who voted for us, we're grateful, humbled and proud.
Marin Gives Back: How Your Donation Can Help Local Organizations
$50 covers the cost of fresh, nutritious groceries to be used in recipes for two classes, serving 30 young chefs.
Founded in 2009 in Marin County, Kids Cooking for Life (KCL) inspires lifelong healthy cooking and eating habits through our free, after-school cooking and nutrition classes for children ages 10-18.
Give Support: How You Can Help Kids Learn Valuable Cooking Skills and Make Healthy Food Choices
Kids Cooking for Life is an Oakland-based nonprofit that teaches underserved youth the cooking skills and knowledge they need for healthy food habits — from the importance of using good ingredients to how to prepare meals at home.
“The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.”