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Non-profit OrganizationsMassachusetts, United States11-50 Employees
Community Cooks is a Somerville, Massachusetts-based nonprofit that partners with human service agencies in the Greater Boston area to provide home-cooked meals for the people they serve. The organization mobilizes volunteers from individuals, businesses, and civic, educational, and faith-based groups to prepare meals, focusing on programs that struggle to offer adequate food due to funding constraints or limited facilities and resources. Its partner agencies include shelters for unhoused neighbors, after-school programs, supportive residences for people in recovery, and other human service providers serving adults, children, youth, and families. Founded in 1990 as an all-volunteer effort and later incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Community Cooks has a paid staff and a modest annual budget, and it operates with an engaged board of directors to sustain its mission in the nonprofit sector.