Participating Resource Center Partners
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content: This poster was displayed outside the pop-up kitchen and Resource Center operated by World Central Kitchen (WCK) during the government shutdown in January 2019. It lists the businesses and nonprofits that partnered with the #ChefsForFeds Resource Center to provide groceries and household supplies to federal workers affected by the shutdown. After opening the kitchen to serve meals for furloughed federal employees, Chef José Andrés and WCK teamed up with the organizations identified on this poster, including the Greater DC Diaper Bank and the International Fund for Animal Welfare to offer diapers, pet food, and even some financial services to support federal families in need.
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content: After immigrating to the United States in 1990 at age 21, José Andrés established and expanded several restaurants in and around the Washington, D.C. area, including the popular tapas restaurant Jaleo. He founded World Central Kitchen in response to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, where the organization prepared and distributed food to Haitians as they recovered from the disaster. In addition to its work feeding islanders in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria in 2017, WCK has supplied food for first responders and families after several different fires in California, in South Carolina after Hurricane Florence in 2018, and to those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and India (2020-2021).
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content: The longest government shutdown in U.S. history began on December 22, 2018, when a disagreement on an appropriations bill delayed the passage of funding for the 2019 fiscal year. Around 800,000 federal employees, including National Park Service staff, members of the Coast Guard, workers at NASA, and FDA inspectors were furloughed or required to work without pay.
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content: In response, Chef Andrés and his organization set up near the United States Navy Memorial on Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, in Washington, DC, to provide meals, groceries, and toiletries for federal families impacted. Known for its ability to marshal private sector resources to support emergency relief, WCK served over 11,000 people through the Resource Center by the time federal employees were able to access their delayed paychecks in February 2019.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Food Technology
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: 2019.0031.04
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content: 2019.0031.04
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content: 2019.0031
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content: poster
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 40 in x 29 in x 1/4 in; 101.6 cm x 73.66 cm x .635 cm