Robert Egger Biography
Robert Egger is an American nonprofit leader, author, speaker, and culinary activist. In 1989, he established the DC Central Kitchen, a nationally famous “community kitchen” that collects leftover food from restaurants and farmers and uses it to power a culinary arts vocational training program and serve meals to local service organizations. He also founded Campus Kitchens Project, CForward, and the L.A. Kitchen in 2013.
How old is Robert Egger? – Age
He was born in the United States of America. His age is not known.
Robert Egger Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Robert Egger Books
Begging for Change: The Dollars and Sense of Making Nonprofits Responsive, Efficient, and Rewarding For All, Egger’s book about the nonprofit sector, was published by HarperCollins in 2004. The Alliance for Nonprofit Management awarded it the Terry McAdam Book Award for “Best Nonprofit Management Book” in 2005.
Robert Egger Career
Egger was in charge of nightclubs all over Washington, DC, in the 1980s. He founded the DC Central Kitchen, the nation’s first “community kitchen,” in 1989 after volunteering to feed the hungry. The DC Central Kitchen uses food donated by farms and hospitality businesses to fuel its nationally recognized culinary arts job training program. Since opening, the kitchen (which is a $12-million-a-year, self-supporting social venture) has delivered north of 35 million feasts and assisted 1,500 people with acquiring regular work.
The Kitchen works its own income producing business, New beginning Catering, as well as the Grounds Kitchens Venture, which arranges comparable reusing/feast programs in more than 57 universities or secondary school kitchens. In addition, Egger established the advocacy organization CForward, which advocated for the economic significance of nonprofit organizations in every community.
Egger was the United Way National Capital Area’s interim director for a year in 2002 to reorganize the organization’s executive leadership in response to allegations of financial mismanagement.
In Washington DC, Robert was the establishing seat of both the City hall leader’s Bonus on Nourishment, and Road Sense, Washington’s “destitute” paper. Additionally, in 2006, he co-chaired the inaugural Nonprofit Congress in Washington, DC.
Egger resigned from his job at DC Focal Kitchen in January 2013 to send off L.A. Kitchen in Los Angeles, CA. Established in 2013, L.A. Kitchen is a 20,000 sq. ft., two-level handling kitchen, situated in NE Los Angeles. L.A. Kitchen works Solid Food, an entirely possessed, for-benefit auxiliary that recruits preparing program graduates and seeks food administration contracts, with an accentuation on chances to serve sound senior dinners. The AARP Foundation was L.A. Kitchen’s founding partner and provided the model with its initial million-dollar grant.
The Los Angeles Food Policy Council, Kitchens for Good, #Hashtag Lunchbag, ROSIES Foundation, The Philanthropic Collaborative, and Chef Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen all have Egger on their boards.