Somerville, MA - After developing a partnership with Community Cooks, CPCU formed an employee-based cooking team that provides a home-cooked meal once a month to ShortStop, a community-based residence and transitional house for homeless young adults. CPCUs cooking team consists of 10 cooks who are providing for 12 young adults.
CPCU is heading the Executive Chefs Circle, a core group of businesses who share the Community Cooks commitment to building the community by supporting local initiatives. As an extension of the Executive Chefs Circle, CPCU created this team of cooks. CPCU employees will be working together to provide a full, balanced, home-cooked meal. To do so, each employee will prepare� a component of a meal for the 12 young adults at ShortStop each month.� In addition to the cooks, CPCU also have recruited "snackers" who provide ShortStop with juice, fruit and nutritional bars among other things.
"We at CPCU are extremely proud of this initiative and that we are once again working to make a difference in someones life. Hunger is an unfortunate fact of life that we may not be able to fully eliminate. However, I am glad that we are doing something to directly minimize it in our community," commented Rui F. Domingos, Chief Executive Officer at CPCU Credit Union.
"I am so pleased to welcome the CPCU team of cooks to Community Cooks. They join our effort to enlist caring businesses to help get more food to more people at service agencies facing budget cuts. The generous meal and snacks they offered to the youth at ShortStop were greatly enjoyed (with enough leftovers for the next day!) and not only provided nourishment but sent a message that neighbors care about neighbors - a value shared by CPCU and Community Cooks," noted Victoria I, President and Co-Founder of Community Cooks.
CPCU recognizes that finding time to volunteer can sometimes be difficult, but Community Cooks relieves the difficulty of scheduling, all the while making volunteering fun.� Community Cooks� asks only for a monthly commitment of providing a home-cooked meal. To learn more about Community Cooks and how you can help, visit
www.CommunityCooks.org.
Somerville, MA - After developing a partnership with Community Cooks, CPCU formed an employee-based cooking team that provides a home-cooked meal once a month to ShortStop, a community-based residence and transitional house for homeless young adults. CPCUs cooking team consists of 10 cooks who are providing for 12 young adults.
CPCU is heading the Executive Chefs Circle, a core group of businesses who share the Community Cooks commitment to building the community by supporting local initiatives. As an extension of the Executive Chefs Circle, CPCU created this team of cooks. CPCU employees will be working together to provide a full, balanced, home-cooked meal. To do so, each employee will prepare� a component of a meal for the 12 young adults at ShortStop each month.� In addition to the cooks, CPCU also have recruited "snackers" who provide ShortStop with juice, fruit and nutritional bars among other things.
"We at CPCU are extremely proud of this initiative and that we are once again working to make a difference in someones life. Hunger is an unfortunate fact of life that we may not be able to fully eliminate. However, I am glad that we are doing something to directly minimize it in our community," commented Rui F. Domingos, Chief Executive Officer at CPCU Credit Union.
"I am so pleased to welcome the CPCU team of cooks to Community Cooks. They join our effort to enlist caring businesses to help get more food to more people at service agencies facing budget cuts. The generous meal and snacks they offered to the youth at ShortStop were greatly enjoyed (with enough leftovers for the next day!) and not only provided nourishment but sent a message that neighbors care about neighbors - a value shared by CPCU and Community Cooks," noted Victoria I, President and Co-Founder of Community Cooks.
CPCU recognizes that finding time to volunteer can sometimes be difficult, but Community Cooks relieves the difficulty of scheduling, all the while making volunteering fun.� Community Cooks� asks only for a monthly commitment of providing a home-cooked meal. To learn more about Community Cooks and how you can help, visit www.CommunityCooks.org.