Organization - Cooking Matters

Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters®, nationally sponsored by the ConAgra Foods® Foundation and WalMart Foundation, is celebrating 17 years of groundbreaking nutrition education. Cooking Matters works to connect families with food by teaching them how to prepare healthy, tasty meals on a limited budget.
Professional chefs, nutritionists, and community members volunteer their time and expertise to lead hands-on courses that instruct adults, teens and kids.

Description:
In MA, courses are led throughout the Greater Boston area and in Worcester. To learn more, visit our website at http://www.cookingmatters.org/mass.

History:
Since 1993, Cooking Matters and its hundreds of volunteer instructors have led courses for more than 59,400 families across the country. Cooking Matters has led courses for Massachusetts families since 1994.

Locally, Cooking Matters partners with host agencies such as ABCD Head Start, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Boston, Greater Boston Food Bank, South Middlesex Opportunity Council, WIC, Chelsea Hunger Network and East Boston Neighborhood Health Center to lead courses in Boston, Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan, Roslindale, Chelsea, Cambridge, Somerville, Plymouth, Quincy, Framingham, Worcester, Marlborough, Northborough and Lowell.

Contact people:

Mimi DelGizzi, Volunteer Coordinator, (phone), (email) Alicia McCabe, Program Manager, (phone), (email)

Address:

110 W. Squantum Street Suite 27 Quincy, MA 02171 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.cookingmatters.org/mass

Directions:

From Boston and points north: Take the Braintree branch of the Red Line to North Quincy station. Walk toward the front of the train to exit station, and follow directions below. From the south (Quincy, Braintree): Take the Red. . . (more)   Nearest Metro/Subway Stop: North Quincy,   Walk distance (in minutes): 5

Miscellaneous Information

What is the type of this organization?
	501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization
Does the agency conduct CORI checks?
	No

Last updated on July 20, 2012