Your generosity nourishes more than a meal. It nourishes hope.
When you donate to UGK Community First, you help us deliver chef crafted meals to children, seniors, families facing food insecurity, and individuals healing through illness. Your support also fuels free community cooking classes, fresh produce bags, and nutrition education that empowers people to build healthier futures.
Every contribution, big or small feeds our city one neighbor at a time.
​Thank you for standing with us and helping nourish our community with dignity and love.
Your donation directly supports:
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Future Foodies: fresh, balanced meals for children in daycares and youth programs
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From Scratch: chef-made reheatable meals for unhoused neighbors and food is medicine program
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Smart Soul Food: cooking classes and food boxes focused on nutrition + wellness
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Nourish: fresh produce, protein, ingredients with recipes feeding families of 4 managing health challenges or food insecure.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
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Smart SoulFood
Smart Soul Food is a culinary education initiative that empowers disadvantaged community members to prepare nutritious, delicious meals using fresh, local ingredients. Over six classes led by our Hell’s Kitchen finalist chef, participants learn cooking techniques and explore cultural cuisines tailored to diverse dietary needs. Each class includes a food box for preparing meals at home, while the program also tracks health outcomes to promote improvements in diabetes, heart disease, and obesity, fostering lasting impacts on well-being and culinary confidence.
From Scratch
Feeding our senior community with healthy, nutritious, chef-prepared meals is crucial for their overall well-being, especially as we approach the holiday season in collaboration with Armstrong Renaissance and Better Housing Coalition, and City of Richmond serving 1300 Thanksgiving meals.