Kinship is building Milwaukee’s first Community Food Center
For 47 years, Kinship has fed and walked alongside our neighbors. Now we're building a permanent home for that work at the crossroads of the Riverwest and Harambee neighborhoods.
Under one roof, immediate hunger relief and long-term development and healing reinforce each other, enabling neighbors to build sustainable pathways to prosperity.
CAMPAIGN PROGRESS
“We’ve done so much in a space that pushes back against our best efforts at every turn. Our space doesn’t match our spirit and our community deserves better.”
For the past ten years of our 47-year history, Kinship has proven a model that uses food as an entry point to healing, belonging, and opportunity.
All that work happens today in a borrowed basement that impedes our ability to pursue our mission: the space is not accessible, we must set up and take down our market multiple times a week, and we have no room to store additional donations or to sit privately with someone in crisis.
That's why we're building Milwaukee's first Community Food Center: a permanent, 28,000-square-foot home opening in summer 2027, at the corner of Holton and Locust Streets. The space will allow us to double the number of days we can offer our free food market, and will include private consultation rooms for crisis and workforce services, a production kitchen to grow our culinary job-training program, as well as a greenhouse, courtyard, and chapel.
Our model is built on a simple truth: everyone gives, everyone receives. No one is so poor that they have nothing to give. No one is so rich that they have nothing to receive.
A permanent home won't be built by a few large gifts alone, but by all of us deciding to invest in our city.
Leadership & Supporters
“What makes Kinship unique is their holistic approach to breaking the cycle of generational poverty. I’ve seen how this model attracts people, transforms lives, and propels change.”
We cannot do this transformational work alone. In addition to our community, this campaign is supported by a number of leaders, partners, businesses, and individuals that have chosen to invest not only in our programs, but in our city.
We are deeply grateful for their support. Together, we can create a community where all are nourished, all belong, and all can prosper.
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