Dubai, UAE Jan 2022 Conference season has begun! I'm writing to you from 8,000 miles away overlooking the Dubai marina district about a lot of fun stuff on the horizon for you to...
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The 3 Most Popular Grants That Fund Healthy After-School Culinary Workshops For Students
Our niche is working with Title -1 schools, which are schools with a high population of students who qualify for free or reduced lunch, meaning they are in low-income household. Our clients...
5 Amazing Things About Living in Dubai
Every 4th newsletter I like to share something fun, personal and that has nothing to do with LIFT Enrichment's mission providing healthy culinary workshops for Title-1 schools. Previously I wrote...
4 Things To NOT Do in a Cooking Class
After teaching healthy culinary workshops for over 13 years, here are some key things to NOT do in a cooking class. A cooking class is a unique experience because there are a lot of moving parts....
Our Top 10 Recipes for New Clients
The BUSIEST MONTH OF THE YEAR FOR AFTER-SCHOOL Welcome to the month of September, which for after-school providers means it’s GO time. Amongst my friends who run enrichment companies, we’re...

5 Reasons Why We Are Working with Grant-Based (and not Parent-Paid) Clients This Fall
This Fall I made a decision to try something very different from the last 12 years of running LIFT Enrichment: I decided to stop working with parent-paid programs so we can focus solely on...
Client Case Study: Pomona USD How We Taught 110 Hours of Culinary Workshops
Things can change in a lot in a year, and this newsletter looks at one of our biggest clients: Pomona School District (located a bit east of downtown Los Angeles)In 2021 we taught 0 in-person...
5 Awesome Reasons To Be A Chef Teacher with LIFT Enrichment
The core of what we do is teach healthy culinary workshops to low-income/Title-1 schools and the key part of those lesson are our team of amazing Chef Teachers. We spend a lot of time, energy...
Client Case Study: Virtual/Hybrid Culinary Workshops in Texas: Communities in Schools of the South Plains
What if I told you that LIFT Enrichment taught 80+ hours of culinary workshops to 400+ students in Texas this past Summer…and it was both LIVE in-person and also on Zoom? And get this: The...
5 Rules Of The Culinary Classroom
Every healthy culinary workshop we teach starts exactly the same, whether it’s an in-person lesson in a cafeteria with 20 kids in Pomona, CA or a virtual/hybrid class taught on zoom at a summer...