Chill the Champagne and stock up on birthday candles, because Jacques Pépin is turning 90! That’s something to commemorate in and of itself, but at the Jacques Pépin Foundation we’re planning to celebrate both the man and the mission of the JPF.
September 12, 2025
It was a busy summer for JPF Grantees! Here’s a bit of what they’ve been up to in the past few months, and be sure to find out how you can volunteer to help provide JPF funds to deserving Community Kitchens nationwide!
August 25, 2025
Since 2011, Catalyst Kitchens has united nonprofit culinary training programs into a peer-led community, uplifting members through food and opportunity. Since 2016, the Jacques Pépin Foundation has partnered with CK, providing grants, infrastructure, and collaboration. At the National Summit, JPF led sessions, celebrated the 90/90 Gala, and reaffirmed partnership: investing in dignity, equity, hope, and communities nationwide.
August 20, 2025
This year we were pleased to offer complimentary member thank you gifts highlighting important work of grantee programs. JPF Sous Chef and Chef de Cuisine Members could choose the Appetite for Change Cookbook with soul food classics, healthy, affordable recipes and stories, or the Cookie and Granola Combo from Together We Bake’s employment social enterprise in Alexandria, VA.
July 22, 2025
It is our great pleasure to announce that the JPF has selected two graduates of JPF-supported culinary training programs to receive a 2025 JPF Memorial Grant of $5,000 each to continue their culinary journeys. Congratulations to the winners and their respective programs.
July 8, 2025
On Friday June 6th, Director of Grants and Membership Jennifer Quigley-Harris joined Chef Jesse Perez, Chef Claude-Olivier and other staff of The Salvation Army Boston Kroc Center to celebrate their Spring 2025 Culinary Training Program Graduates. We applaud The Salvation Army Boston Kroc Center’s Culinary Training graduates, and all of the participants of the training programs supported by the JPF.
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