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...
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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...
The Best Black Bean Burger (that kids like!)
What if your after-school program could show kids how to make a “veggie” burger taste really good? I love a burger as much as the next chef, but there’s something special about making a burger made...
The Versatility of Cauliflower (5 Ways To Make It Taste Good!
4 beautiful cauliflowers from a recent cooking demo at the California Charter School Conference Cauliflower is one of those vegetables that is in its prime. “Cauliflower rice” is found at many...
The State of School Lunches in 2022
Chef Yvette teaching students at one of 21 schools we partner with that are part of Pomona USD (March 2022) The US Department of Agriculture is spending a LOT of money on school lunches, ($750...
My 9 Tips To “Live Abroad’ and See The World
For those with a thirst to step off a plane into exciting new cities very, very far away from your home to see what adventure awaits: then this post will resonate with you.I work for many reasons...